

Right at the end of the patch notes, Epic Games offered two brief notes. It seems pretty clear that this spaceship will play a role in some sort of story event soon! Any other business: Two brief notes from Epic Games That's the big, circular, purple debris field right in the centre of the map. If you want to check out this new point of interest for yourself, all you need to do is head to The Aftermath. It’s predicted its purpose will become clearer in the near future."

As Epic Games puts it: "An unusual Alien ship is hovering over The Aftermath… The IO says 'unusual' because its intent doesn’t seem to be for harm. Take a look at the trailer below to see on in action! New POI: Where to find the mysterious spaceshipĪnother interesting addition is a peaceful-seeming spaceship right at the heart of the Fortnite Season 7 map. If you want to get a Plasma Cannon for yourself, you'd better starting looking - they can be found in both IO Chests and normal chests, so fingers crossed they shouldn't be too tricky to find. (Technically two for a brief moment.) But if you have multiple Plasma Cannons and cycle through them, multiple plasma balls can be deployed at once." "With one Plasma Cannon, one plasma ball can be deployed at a time. Because the IO used Alien technology to invent it, it can be crafted by combining a Legendary Pistol with an Alien Nanite. The Plasma Cannon can be crafted in addition to being found. Fearing Aliens may prove to be advanced architects, the IO made it so that the Plasma Cannon destroys structures just about instantly. "How the Plasma Cannon affects buildings is a different story. Tip: if you find a way to keep enemies in the dome even when impulsed, they will take repeated damage. "What’s the big deal about these? An electrical dome will surround them as they slowly move forward, and enemies who get caught in the dome will take heavy damage and be impulsed back.
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The major new attraction within update v17.21 is the Plasma Cannon weapon, which Epic Games describes like so: "Found from IO Chests and normal ones, the Plasma Cannon has enough energy to fire five plasma balls.
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There are three main sections to these patch notes, which we'll summarise for you below: New item: How to get the Plasma Cannon in Fortnite This blog is basically the full patch notes, so there's plentiful information to absorb here. Luckily, Epic Games didn't leave us alone with our thoughts for too long, dropping an official Fortnite blog post on the morning of 27th July to explain the update in more detail. Teasing the update yesterday, Epic Games said in a tweet: "Take up the power… of science!" It never takes much to get fans speculating, but those weird certainly sent our thinking caps into overdrive! What could it mean?

Full Fortnite Season 7 patch notes for update v17.21 But what does today's update, v17.21, have to add? Keep on reading and we'll break down everything we know about the patch notes.
