Footage of Fortnite Heavy Sniper Has Been Leaked
By Nicholas Barth ·
Footage of the recently leaked Heavy Sniper for Fortnite Battle Royale has begun to make its way around social media, and it shows off a very powerful weapon.
The implementation of the v5.20 content update for Fortnite Battle Royale allowed dataminers to discover that the files for a new Heavy Sniper had been added to Fortnite by Epic Games. This discovery also revealed that the Heavy Sniper would be an extremely powerful sniper rifle that would have the ability to pierce through structures and destroy them.
With the promise of being one of the strongest weapons to ever be added to the battle royale game, the community has been anxiously awaiting to see the Heavy Sniper in action and thanks to Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks players have gotten the first footage of the leaked Heavy Sniper in Fortnite.
This Sniper 1 Shots ANYTHING its a BEAST! pic.twitter.com/e2c5yD2DZM
— Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks (@FNBRLeaks) August 12, 2018
Dataminers were also able to discover the weapon stats for the leaked Fortnite Heavy Sniper that you can find below.
Damage: 157.0
Fire Rate: 0.33
Magazine Size: 1
Reload Time: 4.1
Players may be hesitant to see the footage of the leaked Heavy rifle showing a long reload time, slow rate of fire and magazine capacity of one bullet.
However, the weapon's extremely high damage output and ability to destroy structures in late game situations will likely make the Heavy Sniper a valuable addition to any Fortnite player's inventory.
Epic Games has not confirmed when the new weapon will be making its way to its popular battle royale title of Fortnite, but it is expected to be added with the next content update for the battle royale game, as the double barrel shotgun that was leaked alongside it has already been added into the title.
With Fortnite already having three sniper rifle weapons, it remains to be seen if Epic Games will vault one of the three existing rifles to make room for the Heavy version or if the battle royale game will have four variations of the weapon class available for players to use in their quests for a Victory Royale.
(cover photo courtesy of XDA Developers and Epic Games)