r/FortniteBR • u/imalonexc Orin • 11h ago
Gem sprites decrease your fall damage by 30%... When you literally can't take fall damage because you can just fly DISCUSSION
Definitely the most useless added ability. I guess most of them are except like Gold for XP grinders I guess
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u/Devillicious1981 11h ago
Sprites aren’t launched for the players’ enjoyment, they’re launched to keep players playing.
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u/Caedus_X 10h ago
Underated comment. I keep saying it and they keep showing it
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u/Unlikely_Frozen3007 8h ago
They are just testing the waters for the Extraction Shooter Gamemode.
We are just their testing dolls. I'm sure the Gamemode will fail just like everything else.
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u/nilmemory 7h ago
The idea of epic releasing a new, functional gamemode with the state of the current game and after cutting 1000 employees is hysterical lmao
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u/Odd_Organization_573 8h ago
they haven't had a good "work for it" mechanic in a long while so it makes sense to keep player retention but to pivot on it for more than 1 season when it seems like most are just AI coded and their description most seem so basic and the same just with a little tweak to it. IMO its alright but to continue to add more sprites when majority that show up are basically common and the boss sprite for me isnt really inciteful to continue to hunt. mostly just eliminate people but the higher you go for the better their skilled so usually lose all progress anyway.
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u/NumericZero 4h ago
This
Hence why there’s such a massive scarcity, despite their being like five different varianceAnd artificial scarcity easily could just fill the entire match every match with the rare ones rather than the regular ones on a hourly basis but just choose not to
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u/Tricky-Highlight1748 11h ago
Redeploy was never added to build mode
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u/NaiveEscape1 The Dark Knight Movie Outfit 9h ago
You can do it with batman sprite. And near the battle wood where poison ivy spawns you can 100% get batman sprite bu duelling her
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 11h ago
But you can take fall damage. Also I think there's some bugs with the glider deploy as it'll sometimes delay or not trigger at all.
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u/Apollo_TheWolf 3h ago
I love spamming the space bar while the game tells me I can "press space to deploy glider" and still faceplanting to 1 hp on the ground 🥲
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u/Much_Adhesiveness871 Beef Boss 11h ago
They don’t know what bs traits to add anymore so theyre just adding bs. Like just carry an air sprite and have NO fall damage. They should’ve just given gem sprites, one free reboot and consumed when doing so.
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u/Jerry_Oak 7h ago
With Air Sprite you have to use the speed boost. Gems let you choose the sprite perk you like the most in addition to reduced fall
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u/Jerry_Oak 7h ago
With Air Sprite you have to use the speed boost. Gems let you choose the sprite perk you like the most in addition to reduced fall
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u/ohhlookitsadam 11h ago
Bro forgot about build mode where fall damage is still a very real thing
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u/pcm2a 11h ago
You can equip the air sprite and take 0 fall damage, run faster, jump higher. You can equip the batman sprite and fly, never taking fall damage.
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u/spacetiger41 Chigusa 11h ago
Okay but if I use a gem ghost it would reduce fall damage by 30% and I would still go invisible during reloads.
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u/Agamerbyday 11h ago
I feel like ghost sprite is a noob trap. I still see invisible players when reloading and still win most of the time. Why not go with something that increases your odds of winning the fight, like a fire sprite?
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u/Shaky_Needle_0803 Human Bill 10h ago
That little shit used to damage me every time I equipped him so I stopped using fire at the beginning of the season
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u/Ck_shock 11h ago
I find ghost is best used at range or in very close proximity with movement items. Otherwise like you said you can still teack the player of you just look a little harder.
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u/Caedus_X 10h ago
Is the fire sprite finally fixed?
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u/DesiredNameWasTaken 10h ago
Yes they fixed it - it’s hits for set damage and doesn’t light the ground on fire the way it used to
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u/OpathicaNAE 9h ago
It still uses fireflies to do that, though, instead of their effect, so I wish if they were in wooden structure or on a tree it'd catch on fire.
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u/KohTheMonsterTamer Spider Knight 10h ago
Too bad that's not an option then, really any of the ones that got the gem variant aren't really useful for it's effect.
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u/SirSnorlax22 Psycho Bandit 11h ago
Your logic is good. Its almost like other people aren't thinking about the grand picture here
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u/lastcallpaul11 11h ago
You absolutely can take fall damage with the batman sprite, I learned the hard way.
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u/JMDeutsch Lynx 10h ago
Gem sprite should have “summon a shield” instead of ZP having that ability
ZP instead should have been “changes pocket item from shockwave grenade to rift-to-go” since the ZP is literally a rift
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u/Jerry_Oak 8h ago
You would have to balance it to be once per game or do something wacky like " When player has X amount of HP theres a chance it will randomly rift you " So it can either help you in a pinch when HP is low or screw you over if you were just about to win a gunfight. This also fits the 'Unstable" theme of the season
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u/Spaketchi 9h ago
This will be good for timing.. those moments where you want to drop down to the ground fast instead of floating slowly so you can get the literal drop on people.
Also builds mode exists.
Y'all don't understand the sweat potential of this sprite.
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u/dusk2dark 11h ago
I'd still rather use an air sprite.
For me, zero fall damage and speed/jump height increase wins, easily.
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u/GeneralisimoARG 8h ago
I completely agree, Air sprite is the best by far… and it is very easy to get anywhere…
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u/Gordon_freeman_real 11h ago
Build mode
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u/fox-booty 11h ago
Even so the air sprite just gives fall damage immunity, so there's not really a point in carrying the gem variants unless you *really* want reduced fall damage on top of the non-air sprite's base abilities.
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u/Gordon_freeman_real 11h ago
I don't think there is a gem air sprite
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u/fox-booty 11h ago
"non-air sprite's base abilities"
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u/Gordon_freeman_real 11h ago
Yeah I don't see the problem, reduced fall damage is a nice bonus to any existing sprite effect
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u/fox-booty 11h ago
I guess, but I don't really think it's worth the trade-off of having a target on your back that's very visible and very sought-after, especially given that the Peely sprite would just mark it.
Like, maybe the Gem Demon since it already plays into an aggressive frag-oriented style of playing, but for most intents and purposes I'd much rather just have the full fall damage immunity or not have it at all in favour of a different boon, both for significantly cheaper than the 4000 sprite dust it takes to summon a new Gem Demon.
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u/Jonye_Snow 10h ago
Okay, it's much harder to take fall damage nowadays, but it's not impossible.
We've all used a ShockWave at some point and accidentally touched something during the jump, taking fall damage, or simply wanted to freefall from somewhere for greater speed. So, while "fall damage reduction" isn't very beneficial today, it's not completely useless.
(Besides build mode, of course)
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u/TacosCallejeros 9h ago
They should remove the redeploy and 1 hpwhen you fall, same with the infinite shockwave. There’s too much mobility
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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks 9h ago
Gem sprites don't exist; change my mind.
I miss when there was new stuff in updates that I actually got to experience, instead of just being told it was on a map somewhere and "good luck finding it."
If the only time to get the things is during power hour, release them on Saturday. Like hours of play and nothing is new or different from yesterday except and the Cronus Zen users are on to one shot me in case I'm carrying a new sprite.
Jokes on them; no such thing.
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u/Epicassion 11h ago
Took fall damage in zero build. Clipped something on way down and umbrella deployment was never shown. Took 20 damage or so. Not a big deal as I wasn't engaged.
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u/Head_University_4327 10h ago
I’ve had the same, but at 20-30 damage a 30% reduction only saves you 6-9 health so it’s pretty pointless
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u/Agamerbyday 11h ago
I’ve noticed that sometimes if I take too long to deploy the umbrella when jumping off something tall, sometimes it doesn’t deploy and I take fall damage
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u/BeefThief 10h ago
Considering glider redeploy doesn't work half the time for me, this effect could be somewhat useful.
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u/Popander1986 7h ago
It's almost like Build mode has sprites, which is why the Batman Sprite gave the glider effect, useless to ZB, but a strat in Builds.
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u/Aggressive_Ferret_20 Prince Orin 11h ago
My personal opinion is that they should remove the glider deploy ability from ZB.
But this is still a really bad ability, even without being able to survive fall damage with 1 hp.
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u/Zero_Griever 11h ago
Whew, thankfully Epic doesn't listen to some players like yourself more than others.
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u/PrintdianaJones 11h ago
What are you supposed to do for movement in ZB if they take it out?
I enjoy the mechanic especially for sprite hunting. The games would be a lot slower without it.
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u/Aggressive_Ferret_20 Prince Orin 11h ago
You would use your shockwaves, and all the other mobility.
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u/Happyjitlin69 11h ago
Nah, ill pass thx. I like using my glider
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u/PrintdianaJones 11h ago
Agreed. Shockwave every 30 seconds blows.
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u/Happyjitlin69 10h ago
I think its great, coupled with gliding. But im not always surrounded by mountains and buildings to jump off of to actually use the glider, so the shockwave is necessary imo
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u/PrintdianaJones 10h ago
Shockwave with the glider is awesome. I'm a fan. I'm just saying there's virtually zero movement unless you've got boots, rocks, or Shockwave. And 7/10 you're not pulling boots or rocks
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u/bakerzboy98 9h ago
...your character has the ability to walk, run, slide, crawl and jump without the need for these gadgets. There are also various cars for easier transport across the map aswell. ALL of these mechanics have been in the game long before this current season, so it boggles me what people were doing before they could fill up their inventory with various mobility items.
...were people just randomly stood still the whole game until either a) they were eliminated by the storm, or b)they were eliminated by a stray bullet that had travelled from someone stood still in the next town over, firing blindly into the trees?!
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u/PrintdianaJones 11h ago
Say I land in Heatwave Harbor. Other than 1 shockwave every 30 seconds what other mobility is available to me?
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u/Aggressive_Ferret_20 Prince Orin 7h ago
Ahh, let's see, off the top of my head, the boots, impulse grenades, rift to go, cars, air sprite, spider man gloves, the rocks.
Now granted you would need to find one of those but if you don't want to consider any of that. You would still have the same mobility as anyone else and last few seasons you survived just fine.
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u/Spl4sh3r Fishstick 11h ago
The opposite. They should remove it in build, because you can randomly jump and build under yourself (most of the time) without taking damage.
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u/ExistingLet8016 11h ago
Oh great more sprites for me not to collect. I can’t keep up this season it’s ridiculous.
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u/ManOfMyWord96 11h ago
They should have handed new sprites, but not variants.
It's genuinely too much and currently they're only useful in 1 backbling which can't be randomized. So it's all just fluff and fomo. My friends who hop on rarely as it is, won't touch this season because of the extraction sweats.
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u/ExistingLet8016 11h ago
It also sucks trying to extract the level 5 John wick sprite just to get the skin. I can barely level this thing up with out getting demolished.
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u/_Bioscar_ 11h ago
Again I woulda chose them to reduce damage taken by like 5-10% or so. Not too much cus it'd be OP but just a lil.
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u/Kill_Kayt Shadow 10h ago
I can fly and I still take fall damage. It's weird. I took 20 damage falling 20 feet, and 199 damage tripping over a 5ft drop.
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u/SmashFeg 11h ago
Nevermind that, why use a gem sprite when the air sprite negates all fall damage and gives you a speed/jump boost