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Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Category Battle Royale Weapons
History
Introduced

Patch 7.40

Patch 8.40 (Epic and Legendary)
Vaulted

Patch 8.10 Common

Patch 11.0

Infantry Rifle is an Assault Rifle in Battle Royale. It is available in Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary variants. It uses Medium BulletsMedium Bullets and has a head shot multiplier of 2.0x. The Infantry Rifle is 100% accurate when aiming down sights and deals great damage, but has a limited magazine size of 8 or 10 and is not fully automatic.

The Infantry Rifle is based on the M1 Garand, due to its ping when the last shot is fired and the appearance of the weapon. All variants of the Infantry Rifle could be found from floor loot, Chests, and Vending Machines. It's Legendary variant could also be found in Supply Drops.

It used to be available in Common, Uncommon, and Rare variants. However, Patch 8.10 removed its Common variant, and Patch 8.40 added its Epic and Legendary variants. Its Legendary variant used to be found in Buried Treasure, but that item has since been removed from the game files on the initial patch of Season 9.

In 10.00 Content Update, the Common variant was unvaulted, but can only be found in Tilted Town. The Common variant was vaulted again with the removal of Tilted Town in the Batman Update.

All variants of the Infantry Rifle have been vaulted in Patch 11.0. It was vaulted to clear space for the unvaulting of the Burst Assault Rifle, also because the Uncommon and Rare variants were not used a lot and the Epic and Legendary were overpowered.

All variants of the Infantry Rifle has been unvaulted for the Winterfest event on both December 22, 2019 and January 3, 2020 for 24 hours. Following the Stink Bomb and Drum Gun, this is the fifth and 17th weapon to be unvaulted for the event.

Stats[]

Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 144
Damage 36
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.5
Structure Damage 36
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 152
Damage 38
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.4
Structure Damage 38
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 160
Damage 40
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.3
Structure Damage 40
Infantry Rifle
BattleRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 168
Damage 42
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 10
Reload Time 2.2
Structure Damage 42
Infantry Rifle
BattleRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 176
Damage 44
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 10
Reload Time 2.1
Structure Damage 44

Former Stats[]

Stats (Patch 8.20 - Patch 8.30)[]

Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 152
Damage 38
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.5
Structure Damage 38
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 160
Damage 40
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.4
Structure Damage 40
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 168
Damage 42
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.3
Structure Damage 42

Stats (Patch 7.40 - Patch 8.20)[]

Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 164
Damage 41
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.5
Structure Damage 41
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 172
Damage 43
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.4
Structure Damage 43
Infantry Rifle
InfantryRifle
Details
Bullet Type Medium bullets icon
DPS 180
Damage 45
Fire Rate 4.0
Magazine Size 8
Reload Time 2.3
Structure Damage 45

Textures[]

Patch Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary
Since

7.40 (Common to Rare)

8.40 (Epic & Legendary)

InfantryRifle BattleRifle

Sound[]

Availability[]

Chapter 1[]

Rarities/Ways to Obtain Chest Floor Loot Supply Drops
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary

This weapon never came back in Chapter 2 yet.

Strategy[]

  • Remember that the trigger must be un-pressed and re-pressed to fire each shot. Simply holding down will not work.
  • Those with good consistent aim should use the Infantry Rifle. It is a hitscan weapon, meaning its shots travel instantly, which is also 100% accurate when aiming down sights and has a fast fire rate of four bullets per second.
  • The Infantry Rifle does excellent damage, with the Rare variants and above being able to eliminate a full-shielded enemy in five shots.
  • Its magazine size of 8-10 prevents it from being good at destroying materials efficiently, and it requires reloading quite often.
  • Compared to the Heavy Assault Rifle, it has a slower fire rate, fewer bullets in the magazine and not automatic, but is more accurate and deals more damage.
  • While this doesn't deal the most damage of all the Assault Rifles in Fortnite (exactly like the Mythic Heavy AR), it deals more damage than the same rarity of it, meaning that it also is a bit more capable in mid-range combat than the Heavy, assuming the player is extremely skilled with this weapon.
  • This is the first weapon which has, with regards to rarity, variable magazine capacity. The Common, Uncommon and Rare variants have a clip size of 8, while the Epic and Legendary variants have a magazine size of 10.

Changes[]

Patch Notes[]

10.00 Content Update (August 6, 2019)

Weapons + Items

  • Unvaulted weapons that only spawn in Tilted Town
    • Infantry Rifle
      • Common variant

Patch 8.40 (April 17, 2019)

Weapons + Items

  • Infantry Rifle
    • Added Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants.
    • Deals 42/44 damage.
    • Can be found from Floor Loot, Chests, Supply Drops and Vending Machines.
    • Uses Medium Ammo.

Patch 8.30 (April 10, 2019)

Weapons + Items

  • Infantry Rifle
    • Damage decreased from 40/42 to 38/40.
    • Fall-off damage at maximum range increased from 26/28 to 32/34.

Patch 8.20 (March 27, 2019)

Weapons + Items

Infantry Rifle
  • Converted to hitscan, meaning this weapon no longer fires projectiles (snipers) and now fires the same as other Assault Rifles.
  • Base damage reduced from 45/43 to 42/40.
  • Uses the same damage fall-off profile as existing assault rifles.

Patch 8.10 (March 12, 2019)

Weapons + Items

Infantry Rifle
  • Removed Common rarity
  • Increased the size of the Infantry Rifle’s projectile slightly
    • This should result in hitting shots being slightly easier

Patch 7.40 (February 14, 2019)

Weapons + Items

Infantry Rifle
  • Available in Common, Uncommon and Rare variants.
  • Deals 41, 43, 45 damage. 2x headshot multiplier.
  • Can be found from Floor Loot, Chests, and Vending Machines.
  • Uses Medium Ammo.
  • Fires quick-moving projectiles without damage falloff.

Vault Log[]

Update/Patch Vault Unvault
8.10 Common
10.0 Common - Only found in Tilted Town
10.31 Common
11.0 Uncommon to Legendary

Trivia[]

  • The Infantry Rifle used to fire fast-moving projectiles similarly to a Sniper Rifle, and it used to do 41/43/45 damage. It was later changed to have zero travel time but had its damage reduced to 42/40, and later 40/38
  • The Infantry Rifle resembles an American M1 Garand Semi-auto Rifle Used During WWII. The Epic and Legendary variants resemble the American MK14 EBR and the SCAR SSR. Also, it is similar to Barrett MRAD.
  • The Infantry Rifle used to be one of the strongest assault rifles in the game dealing 45/43 damage when it used projectiles. In Patch 8.20 the rifle was converted to hitscan and its damage was changed to 42/40, but as of Patch 8.30 The damage of the Infantry Rifle was reduced even more from 42/40 to 40/38 making it dealing the same amount of damage as the Heavy Assault Rifle at the time.
    • This still did not surpass the old Heavy Assault Rifle, which did 44/46/48 before it had its damage reduced.
    • In Patch 8.40, the Epic and Legendary variants of the Infantry Rifle were added and deal 42/44 damage, making them one of the most powerful assault rifles in the game.
  • This is the third weapon to be available in all five rarities.
  • It is the first weapon that has variable magazine capacities depending on the variants, with 8 rounds for the Common, Uncommon, and Rare variants, and 10 rounds for the Epic and Legendary variants.
  • It is to be noted that the Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle are actually using an extended magazine of 10 bullets. The original mag for the weapons was actually 8 rounds.
  • There is the general inaccuracy in Fortnite that the M1 Garand still makes its signature "ping!" noise even if reloaded when ammo is in the mag that is removed. In reality, the "ping!" noise is only made when the full clip is spent and ejected. When reloaded with ammo in the clip, the "ping!" noise shouldn't sound since the magazine is removed with the manual operation of the bolt, and by being physically pulled out of its slot.
  • This is one of the 3 weapons to have a specific rarity vaulted in this case the Common Infantry Rifle (vaulted on Patch 8.10 and unvaulted on 10.00 Content Update) but can only be found in Tilted Town, the other two weapons are the Suppressed Submachine Gun (Common variant vaulted on v5.40 and then unvaulted on v7.30) and the Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle (Legendary variant vaulted on v5.40 and then unvaulted on v9.40)
  • The M1's caliber isn't actually the .308 Winchester/7.62x51mm caliber in real life. In real life, the Garand uses the .30-06 "Springfield" cartridge.
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