{"id":71600,"date":"2025-01-28T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-how-to-avoid-fall-damage-with-new-flint-knock-pistol-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:00:46","slug":"fortnite-how-to-avoid-fall-damage-with-new-flint-knock-pistol-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-how-to-avoid-fall-damage-with-new-flint-knock-pistol-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite: How to avoid fall damage with new Flint-Knock pistol &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite: How to avoid fall damage with new Flint-Knock pistol TreyarchFall damage is one of the biggest causes of accidental eliminations in Fortnite Battle Royale and has been for quite some time, but the arrival of a new weapon in Season 8 might oddly provide a solution. Epic Games made it clear that the Flint-Knock pistol was unlike any other handgun in the battle royale game mode right now when it was first advertised in the news feed \u2013 warning fans to \u201cbe careful! It\u2019s got a kick to it!\u201d However, little did they know that the developer was adding a pistol in the v8.11 patch that would push players back after pulling the trigger. It seems, though, that the push back is not only useful in gunfights \u2013 as seen with the first in-game footage of the weapon on March 20 \u2013 but also for avoiding fall damage. Read More: How to find secret Banner for Week 4, Season 8 Discovery challenge \u2013 Battle Star replaced &#8211; The way that this works seems to be rather simple, too. According to Reddit user moekhdaier, who posted a video showing that the blast \u2013 when shot downwards at the floor \u2013 can be an effective counterplay when falling. The clip above shows a technique that allows players to bounce away from elimination, just before they\u2019re about the hit the floor \u2013 which would typically prove fatal if the drop was big enough. Whether or not this was an intentional tool to set the pistol apart from other weapons remains to be seen, but this could also be a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite: How to avoid fall damage with new Flint-Knock pistol TreyarchFall damage is one of the biggest causes of accidental eliminations in Fortnite Battle Royale and has been for quite some time, but the arrival of a new weapon in Season 8 might oddly provide a solution. Epic Games made it clear that the Flint-Knock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}