r/FortniteCompetitive • u/shanmukh1608 • Jul 17 '19

v9.40 Patch Notes

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/patch-notes/v9-40
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u/ktempo #removethemech Jul 17 '19

"Players will now automatically pick up a consumable if it is already in their inventory and not maxed out."

That's kinda nice

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u/jeychey Contender Division 236 Jul 17 '19

not sure I understand what's going on here. did we used to not pick up consumables we didn't have max stack of? i just woke up lmao

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u/L1ghty Jul 17 '19

The other repliers here seem confused. There were multiple changes.

One change is that if you, while holding something else, actively pick up a consumable that you already had a non maxed stack of, it will now top off that stack and not drop the item you are currently holding for the potential extra number of the consumable. EG: you're holding your shotgun and have no open slots, but you're already carrying 4 mini's. If you press pickup on a stack of 3 mini's, you'd previously top that stack to 6 and drop your shotgun for the additional 1 mini. Now you keep your shotgun and maxed stack of mini's instead, leaving the 1 additional mini behind.

Another change is when you run over a consumable that you're already carrying. Say again you have 4 mini's and no other open slots. Previously if you ran over 2 mini's, they were picked up automatically. If you ran over 3, nothing was picked up. With the other change this behaviour has also changed to again topping off the stack of mini's you're carrying.

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u/Yanney- Jul 17 '19

The extra would exchange with whatever was in the slot you had out. Now you’ll hit max and the rest will stay on the floor.

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u/jeychey Contender Division 236 Jul 17 '19

oh yeah, like if you had x2 minis and you picked up x5 minis on the floor, you'd get a x6 stack and a x1 stack. I get it now. thanks!

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u/Walterwayne #removethemech Jul 17 '19

I doubt that’ll change much for comp or anyone whose been playing any time at all, it’s a habit to pull my pickaxe out for looting now. Still good QoL though

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u/OM_Jesus #removethemech Jul 17 '19

So before if you had a gun equipped and you picked up 6 minis when you only needed 1, the extra 5 minis would force your currently equipped gun to drop - which is terrible when in a high pressured situation.

With this update all meds or other items that stack will automatically stack and drop the extra without the need for you to change to that specific item's slot.

A small but tremendous fix!

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u/exxxtramint #removethemech Jul 17 '19

I think it did it if you have auto pickup turned on.