Hey everyone,

We wanted to take this opportunity to dive in a little more and explain the challenges we face around build limits in Storm Shield Defenses.

With an ever-expanding game like Fortnite, it is a continual battle to manage the game's technical performance. Structure limits on SSDs are one of those precautions we take to help keep performance in a healthy state across all platforms.

All game clients are limited in memory and increasing the build limit would exacerbate memory pressure, leading to an increase in out of memory crashes. We are already making many careful tradeoffs in game systems to manage the memory budget.

Larger bases require longer load times, increasing the wait to get in zone. Once in zone, base complexity is a drag on nearly every system - impacting rendering, AI pathfinding, combat simulation, and more. This can lead to poor framerates, hitching, de-sync issues, and disconnects.

While the actual storage cost is minimal, loading and saving large ba...

Inder96

As of right now in the game, if I'm using a constructor (say Heavy Base) and another friend of mine is using a Power Base, the person who places their B.A.S.E. second has their B.A.S.E. wasted if the B.A.S.E. covered tiles are overlapping. For example, in an SSD, if I place a Heavy Base B.A.S.E. and then then Power Base places his B.A.S.E., then the healing effect of Power Base's B.A.S.E. will not be applied on the tiles on which these B.A.S.E.s are overlapping. Is this intentional? If not, is it being addressed in v8.0?

Not in 8.00 but thanks for raising this - needs a discussion for sure. There are potentially balance and performance concerns here, but ideally each player would get full benefit from abilities.

FatefulFerret

In 7.40, there was a bug fix where schematics would not give back their perk materials when recycled, that had been leveled up after patch 7.20. But I haven't been rewarded my perk materials from the schematics I recycled during that period, despite writing two separate tickets concerning two separate maxed out schematics. Will I ever get my materials back?

Don't want to make specific promises for your account, but we do have a check rolling out in 8.00 that will attempt to grant missed materials around this bug. Thanks for your patience!

Q: Also, are you planning to fix technical performance on/remove the Deathbursts? u/NotMyFortniteAccount

A: Deathbursts are on our radar as something to improve, although we don't have a solid timeframe for this yet. In addition to performance, we also want to try and introduce a bit more counterplay.