Fortnite Quad Launcher Announced In-Game, Coming This Week

Almost two months ago, we posted about three weapons that had been leaked via dataminers in the Fortnite files. The first was the Suppressed Assault Rifle, a weapon that is now in the game. The second was a Flamethrower, which we haven’t seen yet. The third was the Quad Launcher; a rocket launcher that can fire four rockets at once. Guess which has just appeared in the news section in-game?

Coming later this week - most likely on Wednesday - is the Quad Launcher. “Quickly fire up to four rockets to blanket an area with explosive damage”, reads the description. According to Storm Shield One, it will be found as Epic and Legendary variants, with the latter dealing 84 damage and taking 4.5 seconds to reload.

What we don’t know is whether that 84 damage is for one rocket, or for all four. It’s not much so we’d assume that’s the damage per rocket, but if that’s the case, let’s hope it doesn’t have much range. On the other hand, it could be wildly inaccurate because otherwise we could quickly see the return of the explosive spam meta.

Like the Heavy Sniper Rifle, it may also be a much better weapon for taking down structures and forts. While the Heavy Sniper deals a lot of damage to a player, it hits buildings for over 1,000 damage per shot. If the Quad Launcher is similar, build battles are suddenly a lot riskier than they once were.

It’ll be interesting to see whether people decide to take the Quad Launcher over a standard Rocket Launcher or Grenade Launcher, especially with the rocket ammo cap of 12 per player. It’s quite likely that the High Explosives LTM will return when the new weapon gets introduced, so players have a chance to get used to it. In other Fortnite news, check out this clip of TSM Myth taking out the entire Ghost Gaming squad in a scrim.