Happy New Year! We’ve worked hard over the last month on a wide variety of technical issues that the community has helped us identify, and we are now excited to relaunch 2.0 in the form of a public beta. All of the features that were listed in the 2.0 patch notes are once again available. Help us out by giving it a shot and let us know how everything feels!
To join the beta:
- Right click on the game in your Steam Library
- Go to “Properties”
- Click on the “Betas” tab
- Click on the dropdown menu and select “beta - Public Beta Branch”
There is a lot of under the hood stuff going on that should result in better player experiences all around. Most notable from the first 2.0 release:
- On the first run, players who come from 1.x will automatically load into the Sandbox.
- First-time new players will be greeted by a selection screen to choose the Sandbox or Trainer.
- If a player quits from Sandbox, they will automatically boot into Sandbox next time. Same for Trainer.
- Sandbox: fix for bots jumping in air as they respawn.
- Sandbox: fix for bots getting stuck in place on respawn.
- Trainer: fix for Fortnite weapons being blocked from turning while ADSing.
- Settings updates to ensure better saving across Sandbox and Trainer.
- Trainer: Hide Weapon now works.
- Trainer: Level 5 removed. Wasn’t quite working as envisioned. Players should be able to progress past Level 4 now.
- Trainer: Moved a lot of logic from the cloud to the client to allow for speedier performance.
If everything performs as well as we are hoping, 2.0 will be relaunching for all users in the short term. We want to minimize the amount of time where both 1.0 and 2.0 builds are accessible, because new bot-AI behavior features have been introduced in 2.0 that mean some new scenarios will be overly simplified for 1.0 players.
If you come across any issues, please let us know—a great place to chat is our Discord.