Fortnite November 8 patch notes: Everything new in Captain’s Day update
Today brings the first of Fortnite Treasure Hunters' weekly updates, along with the Captain's Day update. As this is a mini-season – only lasting until the end of the month – Epic is giving us smaller, weekly updates rather than big fortnightly ones, and this week brings a new collab into the game.
Rapper Lil' Uzi Vert is joining the roster today, along with a handful of new features themed alongside him.
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Lil' Uzi Vert skin and NPC
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As you'd expect for a collab event, Lil' Uzi Vert will be available in the item shop imminently, and he's also being added as an NPC to the map, taking over the Stronghold as a boss that you can defeat. Doing so will drop his special weapon and unique Sprite, which we'll discuss in detail below.
Lil' Uzi Vert's Lil' SMG
It's a confusing name, but in short, this is Lil' Uzi Vert's signature weapon that you can obtain by defeating him in the Stronghold. It's quite a powerful weapon as, aside from being a good SMG, its fire rate increases the longer you hold the trigger, and holding it will give you a movement speed boost.
Lil' Uzi Vert Jr. Sprite
The other major drop you can get from beating him in the stronghold (as well as all other Sprite sources) is the Lil' Uzi Vert Jr. This Sprite triggers a Chug Splash effect when restoring shields, letting you power up before heading back into the fight. This effect increases with the Sprite level like usual.
On top of that, as part of the Captain's Day event, running for 24 hours from 9am ET, this Sprite and its variants will be more common in the loot pool.
Cursed Sprites return
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Cursed Sprites were added very briefly at the start of the season by mistake and were disabled the next day, but this update re-adds them to the normal Sprite pool. Cursed Sprite variants will give you the effect of the normal Sprite as well as making rare Sprites more common from all sources. However, it comes at a cost, as touching water now damages you.
For a full breakdown of Sprite variants, check out our Cursed and Fortune Sprite explainer .
Second map fragment
You'll have to find this one on your own…
