Fortnite’s latest patch adds a helicopter with room for five

Within the greatest patch of Fortnite season 2 up to now, Epic Video games is bringing mobility to the brand new map in an enormous means: a helicopter. The brand new car is known as the Choppa and it’s a part of Fortnite patch v12.20, however since Epic doesn’t launch full patch notes, we don’t know precisely what else has modified.

The helicopter spawns in numerous locations all through the map — totally on helipads that are positioned close to most main cities — and might seat 4 gamers, together with the pilot. Meaning you’ll have sufficient room for each individual in your 4 individual squad and … one other passenger, I assume? Whereas this can be a little bit extra space than essentially for four-person squads, it makes the helicopter excellent for big-team recreation modes the place you would possibly have to shuttle fairly just a few individuals from just a few completely different squads to the entrance traces of a battle.

That is Fortnite’s first main airborne car since Epic Video games added the aircraft to the sport again in chapter 1. When it was launched, the aircraft was extremely sturdy. Not solely may gamers cross the map in a flash, however it additionally had highly effective machine weapons that have been almost inconceivable to construct towards. It may additionally ram gamers’ constructions, destroying them immediately.

Plainly Epic has discovered a little bit extra about what gamers like since then. In contrast to the quick and maneuverable aircraft, the helicopter is gradual and really susceptible. All 4 passenger gamers might be simply shot by anybody on the bottom, and the helicopter itself has 1,500 well being, which implies it may well get up to a couple photographs from one individual, but when a complete squad needs to deliver you down, you received’t final lengthy.

Maybe much more harmful, if you bounce out of the helicopter you don’t get the choice to reopen your glider. Meaning to soundly exit the car, you’ll have to land or at the very least get very near the bottom, in any other case you’ll take fall injury and even die.

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Whereas it looks as if Epic has executed fairly just a few issues to assist maintain the helicopter’s energy in verify, and off-set its mobility, we’ll simply have to attend and see how gamers use it to know the way sturdy it truly is. Since we don’t get patch notes anymore, it could be tough to see what adjustments Epic is making, but when the car is simply too overpowered and it has to make a serious change, we’ll possible get an official assertion from the developer.