Fortnite Falcon Scout Explained And How To Get It
You're a regular ol' scout now.
Once you've obtained a Falcon Scout, you can equip it and use the fire button to deploy the mechanical bird into the sky. Your view will shift to behind the falcon, granting you full control of where it goes. While in this mode, you can fly around to open containers, pick up loot, or even grab a downed teammate and fly them to safety--or just snag their reboot card, if they're already eliminated. Additionally, you can provide recon to your team by pinging locations or "cawing" to ping all nearby enemies in a certain radius.
Of course, there are some limitations to the Falcon Scout, including the fact that your character is defenseless against any attacks while you're flying it. Because of this, it's best to deploy the bird from a safe place, and it's even better if you have some teammates providing you with some cover while you're scouting. The Falcon Scout can be shot down by enemy teams, too, so be careful while piloting it and try to evade incoming fire.
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Fortnite: How To Mark Enemies
Do the ping thing.
There are plenty of ways that Fortnite allows you to work together as a team, be it by sharing your healing items, resurrecting a fallen squadmate, or simply providing cover fire so that your pals can reposition for a sneaky kill. Perhaps one of the most useful features, though, is the pinging system, which allows you to mark enemies, weapons, and items for your squad so that they can easily redirect their attention as needed. Here's how to mark enemies in Fortnite.
How to mark enemies in Fortnite
While a single click of the middle mouse button--or left on the d-pad for console players--will let you mark items and locations with the ping button, marking enemy locations requires you to double-tap the ping button. By double tapping in the vicinity of your foes, you'll mark the location with a red marker to indicate that there's trouble afoot.
Of course, the game currently features an easier method for pinging your foes by way of the Falcon Scout. If you can get your hands on this useful mechanical bird, you can fly it around and use its "caw" to mark the locations of enemies nearby by pinging a small area rather than marking the miniscule point of your reticule. This is an especially useful option, as it will show the exact locations of your opponents to both you and your teammates, giving you an upper hand if you choose to engage them.
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Fortnite: How To Restore Health Or Shields With Augments
You've gotta keep rollin' augments.
Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 has changed weekly questing in such that quests no longer roll over into the next week, so your goal is to ensure you get everything handled in seven days or fewer. As such, you may be rushing to figure out how to complete this week's quest that asks you to restore health or shields with augments. We'll fill you in below.
How to restore health or shields with augments in Fortnite
There are a few different ways to restore health or shields with augments, but they may require you to spend some gold bars rerolling your options until you can score the right augments. Here are all four choices you have for now.
Chug Gunner
If you're lucky enough to roll the Chug Gunner augment, pick it and simply heal yourself throughout the match until you complete the quest. It takes up two slots, of course, but the fact that it recharges makes it arguably the easiest and most useful option on this list.
Bush Warrior
The Bush Warrior augment heals you while you're standing inside, well, a bush. I works pretty quickly but will only heal you up to 50% of your shields, and requires some standing around idly. Still, if you can't seem to roll anything better, it's one way to get things done.
Splash Medic
If you can roll the Splash Medic augment, you'll be able to find Chug Splashes in containers you open throughout the map. This requires you to be opening chests, coolers, and ammo boxes for one Chug Splash at a time, making it a slightly tedious process--but you'll eventually get it knocked out this way. If you're playing in a group, make sure your teammates let you open chests and other boxes whenever possible. Even if they take the other contents, you'll be able to spawn some extra Chug Splash.
Jelly Angler
Jelly Angler can be a helpful augment if you're near bodies of water. It will grant you a fishing rod that will let you fish up jellyfish exclusively, which can then be used to heal up your shields or health. It's situational, but it could be a very fast option if you find yourself in the right place at the right time. The nice thing about this augment is it doesn't require you to use the rippled fishing holes. Simply fishing anywhere will pull out Jellyfish after just a second or two.
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Fortnite: How To Align Star Sensors For Oathbound Quest
It's alignment time!
Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 already packs a whole lot to knock out with its rotating daily and weekly quests, but you've also got your story-focused challenges by way of Oathbound Quests. And if you've been keeping up, you may have stumbled upon a tricky challenge that asks you to align star sensors by damaging them in the correct order. We'll tell you how to get that knocked out below.
How to align star sensors in Fortnite
To get started aligning star sensors, you'll need to find them first. To do so, head to Hidden Hinge, which is a bit of a hike northwest of Faulty Splits. Once you've arrived there, you'll have to set up the star sensors and a cosmic monitor before you can align them, so follow the prompts to get that handled. Once you've got your star sensors and cosmic monitor set up, you'll need to hit the five star sensors in the correct order using your pickaxe.
Hit the star sensors in this order:
- Crescent moon on the right side
- Half moon on the right side
- Full moon
- Half moon the left side
- Crescent moon on the left side
When you've finish hitting the star sensors in the correct order, you can then head over to the cosmic monitor and interact with it to complete this section of the Oathbound questline. There's still more to do, though, so keep at it!
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Fire Emblem Engage - How To Get Marth, Lucina, And All The Emblems
Fire Emblem Engage centers around summoning heroes from other worlds, but don't worry about missing them.
Fire Emblem Engage revolves around the Emblems, 12 heroes from other worlds--aka other Fire Emblem games--that can be summoned into battle using special rings. These heroes include Marth, Lucina, and Byleth, and give you access to special weapons and moves, as well as healthy stat bumps. But how do you collect them all?
While the idea of a hero-collecting mechanic would seem to be reminiscent of a gacha game like Fire Emblem Heroes, that's actually not at all how it works in Fire Emblem Engage. Instead, in Engage, the various Emblems and their associated heroes are part of your story progress, so you'll naturally gather them all in a particular order as the story progresses. There's no way to miss collecting them all or work to unlock a particular one sooner.
So as to avoid spoilers, we won't reveal the exact order of the Emblems here. Sometimes when you get into a battle, your foe will have an Emblem Ring and the story will treat their associated Emblem as a mystery to be discovered. Other times, you may lose control of one ring and gain another. By the time you're nearing the end of the story campaign, you'll have gathered all 12 Emblem rings, which ties into the story.
The only way to get extra Emblems in an order not prescribed by the story is to purchase the Expansion Pass, which will add more content. The first wave, available at launch, includes an Emblem Bracelet (notably not an Emblem ring) that includes the three main heroes of Fire Emblem: Three Houses--Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude. The DLC will also let you play a special Divine Paralogue mission to get Tiki as an extra Emblem. Future waves promise more Divine Paralogues, Emblem accessories and characters, and story content.
Fire Emblem Engage does have a slight gacha mechanic outside of the Emblem Rings, though. Bond Rings, which are less powerful than Emblem Rings but can grant you some smaller stat benefits, can be traded for Bond fragments. For more, check out our guide on Emblem and Bond Rings, as well as how to achieve Max Bond level with your Emblems.
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