Introducing Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4 Season 1, live today – PlayStation.Blog

Realize your potential with reality enhancements

You’ll be granted a randomized choice of two Reality Augments at different intervals during your match. The longer you survive in the match, the more Reality Augments you’ll collect. Reality Augments allow you to drive without fuel, change your weapons, and grant you Glider redeployment for the remainder of the match.

You can win by rushing to victory

Sprinting towards an obstacle will cause you to hurl over or onto it. This maneuver will surprise your opponent and give you the upper hand. To outplay your opponent, you can use a combination sprinting, mantling and hurdling.

Learn new weapons

There’s a whole new arsenal of weapons scattered across the Island. The Thunder Shotgun can bring thunder and the Shockwave Hammer to your feet. You should also check out the Maven Auto Shotgun and Tactical Pistol.

Claim your territory

Stick around a point-of-interest’s (POI’s) capture point to capture it. POI’s you’ve claimed will display your team’s Banners, making sure your competition knows who controls the territory. Capturing a POI will reward your team with loot, and in a POI under your squad’s control, Chests and opponents will be marked. Keep an eye out for others who may attempt to claim the POI.

Nature can be your greatest ally

Be aware of your surroundings, but in a good way — you never know what advantages are nearby. To increase your Effective Health and short-term unlimited Energy, grab some Slap Berries and build a snowball. Then, use Kinetic Ore for some physics magic on your opponents.

The Chapter 4 Season 1 Battle Pass

This Season’s Battle Pass summons a new cast of combatants. With this Season’s Battle Pass purchase, you’ll immediately unlock the Selene Outfit, and by progressing in the Battle Pass, you can unlock Outfits like the ruler The Ageless, and the in-your-nightmares Doom Slayer. Later on in the Season, you’ll be able to unlock monster hunter for hire, Geralt of Rivia himself.

Fortnite in its full Unreal Engine 5 glory

With the release of the new Chapter, Fortnite Battle Royale now makes use of Unreal Engine 5’s newest, most innovative features, via Unreal Engine 5.1.

Unreal Engine 5 is a breakthrough in visual fidelity. It brings an unprecedented level detail to immersive worlds including Battle Royale Island. Fortnite Battle Royale is now available on PlayStation 5 with next-gen UnrealEngine 5 features, including Nanite and Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps and Temporal Super Resolution.

Nanite, Lumen virtual shadow maps and temporal superresolution

Nanite

Nanite offers highly-detailed architectural geometry. In particular, buildings are created from millions upon millions of polygons. Each brick, stone and wood plank is also modeled.

Natural landscapes can be extremely detailed too. Each tree has around 300,000 polygons and each stone, flower and blade of grass are modeled.

Lumen

Lumen reflections are high-quality ray traced reflections of rays on shiny materials and water.

Lumen offers real-time global illumination at 60 FPS. You’ll see beautiful interior spaces with bounce lighting, plus characters reacting to the lighting of their surroundings. Red rugs, for example, may reflect red light onto your Outfit. Outfits with emissive (a.k.a. The glowing (or glowing) properties of outfits will scatter light onto nearby objects and surfaces.

Virtual shadow maps

Virtual Shadow Maps enable for extremely detailed shadowing. Each brick, leaf and model detail will cast a shadow. Character self-shadowing can be extremely accurate. Shadows will also be cast by small details such as hats or other accessories on characters.

Temporal Super Resolution (TSR).

Temporal Super Resolution in Fortnite is an alternative to Temporal Anti-Aliasing. It allows for high-quality visuals with a high framerate.

Fortnite Battle Royale will be reimagined as you explore the new Island.