Weapons (Save the World)

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Weapons are items that can be crafted by the player that are used to kill monsters in Fortnite. Weapons are color-coded based on their Rarity and are given a Power Level (indicated by a lightning bolt icon) based on both their rarity and upgrade level, this also decides the amount of damage that can be done with this weapon. Within missions, players can Craft weapons from their inventory using schematics (although this requires certain materials) or they may be found in containers and loot chests scattered across the map. They come in many different forms, including laser, elemental, and normal weapons, all having certain perks and drawbacks to using them.

Weapon Classes

There are 3 main categories of weapons: Ranged, Melee and Traps.

Ranged Weapons

Main article: Ranged Weapons

Ranged Weapons are weapons that deal damage from far away. These weapons fire projectiles and use ammunition

Melee Weapons

Main article: Melee Weapons

Melee Weapons are close range weapons that deal damage from contact of the weapon. These weapons typically have a specific range that they can reach.

Traps

Main article: Traps

Traps are placeable weapons that trigger when enemies come within proximity of a trap. These are mainly for defense purposes than aggressive behaviour.

Weapon Collections

Event Weapons

Main article: Event Weapons

Expansion Weapons

Main article: Expansion Weapons

Weapon Crafting

Main articles: Ammunition, Crafting, Schematics

	Copper Ore
	Silver Ore
	Malachite Ore
	Obsidian Ore or Shadowshard Crystal
	Brightcore Ore or Sunbeam Crystal

Weapon Rarity

Main article: Rarity

Crystal Weapons

Main article: Crystal

	Shadowshard Crystal
	Sunbeam Crystal

Weapon Durability

Durability is the measure of how long the weapon lasts. When durability reaches 0, the weapon breaks and is unusable, but it can be crafted again using the available schematic.

Development

Main article: Patch Update

5.10 Patch Update (July 24, 2018)

Gameplay

Ranged weapon reticle changes:
- Several energy weapons which used a triangular 3-hash crosshair now use the standard 4-hash reticle.
- Scoped snipers no longer have a reticle while not scoped.
- Reticles now have a center dot.

Patch 1.7.1 (October 11, 2017)

Weapons will deal more damage to monsters quicker at high level.

Gallery

Melee weapon art
Monsoon Pistol art
Clipper art
Razor art
Old Faithful art
Bolt Slinger art
Bullseye art

Trivia

To prevent confusion between Fortnite and non-Fortnite players, the fire rate for ranged weapons is measured (although unspecified) in bullets per second. It is easy to convert bullets per second to rounds per minute, as to get RPM from BPS the BPS stat has to be multiplied by 60. This allows people not familiar to Fortnite's fire rate system to still be able to gauge the fire rate of the weapon by writing out the aforementioned equation out -the fire rate of 9 bullets per second for the Suppressed Submachine Gun translates into 540 RPM, then for the Pump Shotgun fire rate of .7 translates to 42 RPM, etc.

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