First look at Fortnite\u2019s new Harpoon Gun Fortnite Battle Royale players might be surprised to know that a brand new Harpoon Gun has been added to the game, and it\u2019s very different from anything we\u2019ve seen before. Epic Games appear to have adopted a new strategy since the start of Fortnite Chapter 2 on October 15, with patch notes seemingly a thing of the past. Despite details proving to be pretty scarce about changes for the new game\u2019s first season so far, that hasn\u2019t stopped the developers from sticking to their weekly content schedule, with a new update being rolled out on Tuesday, November 5. Part of that new update is a brand new Harpoon Gun, which not only can be used to attack other players \u2013 dealing 75 damage per hit \u2013 but can drag enemies closer towards you as well. It was previously leaked by data miners. As seen in the clip below from ErycTriceps, a Twitch streamer, a main function of the item is to grab enemies while attacking them at the same time. It\u2019s a short range weapon but as the video shows, you\u2019re not going to need to be point-blank to use it well, should you have good aim. At first glance it might look like another Grappler, a weapon that was sent to the vault with the 7.20 patch back in January after a number of terrible exploits were discovered by players using it. Just like its predecessor, the Harpoon gives ten shots, but the new Harpoon can\u2019t be used to travel around the map. Quite the opposite, actually, pulling things nearer to you \u2013 and not just players. One Twitter user has discovered that it can be used for fishing as well. This is so broken lmaooo Fishing with the Harpoon Gun! #Fortnite \u2014 For The Fans (@FortniteFansBR) November 5, 2019 We don\u2019t really know what its capabilities are supposed to be. Instead, just reporting on what we can see so far. In the meantime, without any patch notes, players will just have to figure out what\u2019s good and bad about it by themselves. All we know is that it can deal damage and latch onto opponents, at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First look at Fortnite\u2019s new Harpoon Gun Fortnite Battle Royale players might be surprised to know that a brand new Harpoon Gun has been added to the game, and it\u2019s very different from anything we\u2019ve seen before. Epic Games appear to have adopted a new strategy since the start of Fortnite Chapter 2 on October […]<\/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-72421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72421","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=72421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}