Fortnite Silenced Assault Rifle, Flamethrower & Quad Rocket Launcher Leaked
By Ford James ·
Three new weapons in Fortnite have leaked today with patch v5.30, including a silenced assault rifle, flamethrower, and a quad launcher.
Fortnite leaks have come thick and fast today with the latest patch and one of the final ones we have to report on is some upcoming weapons that should be coming to Battle Royale soon. Found in the files earlier today are three new inclusions for weapons that all sound like they’ll have their place in the meta and be powerful in their own right.
Suppressed Assault Rifle
Right now, there’s five variants of assault rifle in the game. Your standard automatic assault rifle, the burst assault rifle, the SCAR (Epic/Legendary automatic), the FAMAS (Epic/Legendary burst) and the scoped assault rifle. We could be seeing a fifth addition soon as dataminers have found files relating to a suppressed assault rifle.
There’s already a silenced assault rifle in Save The World so Epic could easily implement one into Battle Royale using the same assets. Maybe we’ll see it in next week’s content update?
Flamethrower
Name: Flamethrower
— Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks (@FNBRLeaks) August 23, 2018
(Not much information)
Apparently It's considered a "LMG" and uses Medium Bullets? pic.twitter.com/sZZYTEacl9
A flamethrower would be fascinating to have in Battle Royale and it seems like our wishes could come true as dataminers have also found some files that hint at just that. Apparently, it uses medium bullets and is classed as an LMG, though it’s likely that’s just placeholder unless it has some incredible bullet-to-fire mechanism inside.
Quad Launcher
The final weapon leaked is a quad launcher, another one that already exists in Save The World. Of course, that sounds incredibly overpowered if it’s four RPGs in one weapon (imagine having five quad launchers in your inventory!) but no doubt it’ll work a little differently. It currently exists as Epic and Legendary rarity in Save The World and hopefully we’ll find out more information on all of these weapons in the coming days/weeks.
In other Fortnite news today, check out all the exclusive challenges for the new Tomatohead upgraded skin here. You can also read up on the full patch notes here including a new place-of-interest on the map, and find out how to unlock the Boogie Down emote here.
(Header image courtesy of FortniteIntel.)