New Heavy Assault Rifle Weapon Announced for Fortnite

With Epic Games always looking for ways to keep their popular battle royale title of Fortnite stocked full of fresh content, players can always expect to hear announcements of new weapons being added to Fortnite from the developer. The latest announcement of a new weapon coming to Fortnite came on Friday, November 2nd with the reveal of the heavy assault rifle. 

Designed after the classic Ak-47, the heavy AR coming to Fortnite promises a high damage output for players who have the weapon in their inventory that can hold all sorts of unique and useful items. The official description of the newly revealed item reads as "powerful assault rifle that is most useful when fired in short bursts.” This description looks to point to the fact that this new weapon will not be a spray and pray type of gun for players.

The new heavy assault rifle will be the first weapon added to the battle royale title since the addition of the quad launcher explosive weapon. It remains to be seen if Epic Games will vault one of the current assault rifle weapons that are in Forntite to make room for the heavy assault rifle or if this new weapon will be added without the vaulting of another version of the AR class of weapon for Fortnite. 

Due to the background of the announcement image for the new gun coming to the battle royale game of Fortnite, the heavy assault rifle will likely be found in legendary and epic rarities. 

At the time of this writing, it is unknown when exactly Epic Games will add the new heavy assault rifle to its title. However, it is likely that it will be introduced to the title in the next major content update the developer implements for its popular title. 

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)