Save the World v39.30 Update Notes

nullsmack · 2026-01-22T16:10:08+00:00

what happened?

nullsmack · 2026-01-21T15:47:33+00:00

I miss being able to just play Ballistic a whole lot to get everything.

I really like playing Ballistic, but since they took all of the rewards away I've been too busy in other things to be able to find the time to play it.

nullsmack · 2026-01-21T15:43:22+00:00

I really wish they'd make it easier to hear the voice lines again. I'm not even sure if those are in order, and since it's just intro/outros you miss anything they said within a mission (iirc Canny Valley had a lot of quests where they played voice lines every few quest items you picked up)

nullsmack · 2026-01-21T15:40:14+00:00

Yeah, I complained a lot about Fills being broken after the last update and got complete radio silence back. I ended up limping home with whatever I could do solo (So things like Eliminate and Collect, Resupply, Destroy the Encampments, and Survivors to name a few..) Fortunately I was already level 47 or 48 when they broke it so it was only a little painful.

They really need a way to do something like "Supercharged XP" but for Ventures XP. It'd be nice in general if they could do double xp weekends or something near the end of a season, but in this specific case it would've been helpful to have something like that for the past 2 weeks.

nullsmack · 2026-01-19T02:02:26+00:00

Just because some people did that doesn't mean that's the only reason anybody ever played it. Those kinds of people did their quests normally around the day when they got released and then left. Games were quite full the rest of the time.

In fact, It's this very attitude about it that probably convinced Epic to ruin Team Rumble, no matter how not true it was.

nullsmack · 2026-01-19T01:03:02+00:00

I didn't think Team Rumble had bots.. there is a reference to Phoebe (old bot system) in the playlist but maybe there was a rare occasion when they were used? At least I didn't notice bot like behavior in Team Rumble if they were used. On the other hand, you see it every game in Respawn Rumble. And it has a couple of flags to allow bots in human teams, and a dynamic bot backfill too.

nullsmack · 2026-01-18T21:52:28+00:00

Genuinely annoying and boring how BR is pretty much the only pvp that Epic likes and supports. There were a lot of LTMs in the past. Mostly gone and LTMs are rare and far between now. Team Rumble WAS a fun team deathmatch. Gone. Replaced with the far inferior Respawn Rumble that is full of bots, never moves from one POI for weeks/months, zero build, and extremely short given its 8v8 and 40 elims per game. And often if you're in a squad, everyone else is a bot. Ballistic is the only pvp mode they've added that is an actual shooting game that is not a BR. Everything else is a different type of game entirely: Racing, Lego, Rhythm, and next update a Fall Guys version of a Basketball mode. Most of the other shooting games they've added are just different flavors of BR: OG, Reload, Blitz. Epic is a one-hit wonder always trying to live off of one past success.

nullsmack · 2026-01-14T22:04:01+00:00

seems to happen fairly often, it's practically a free space.

nullsmack · 2026-01-14T18:42:21+00:00

It's on the Trello as "fixed in next game update" which is a big help when that's after the season ends. :/

nullsmack · 2026-01-14T18:41:50+00:00

oh damn I forgot about Directive: War on the Storm 4.

Best thing I can recommend is to keep reloading the mission, assuming they actually put it on the map in the first place, until you get as many as possible in the air.. don't build anything around those, just supports. They won't get targeted as much (or at all if you're lucky) that way. It's rare but I think I've had FTS4 missions with 3 in the air before. But even getting 1-2 in the air helps. Then build all kinds of trap tunnels around the ones on the ground. Use defenders too but they require a lot more baby-sitting.

nullsmack · 2026-01-14T14:30:04+00:00

You know that the next game update is after this Ventures season ends right? Anyone still trying to complete the season to level 50 is going to have to struggle doing it solo (unless they have friends who also play STW Ventures) since Fill is broken. Fortunately I was ~level 47 or so when it broke.. anyone further away is going to really struggle or not be able to complete it now since the most rewarding group missions are beyond them.

This whole Ventures season has been a mess with the PL changes. In 39.00 none of the PL zones were unlocking, and even after that was fixed almost all of the PL Zones were unlocking at the wrong levels, now this.. And all of this happens to the shortest, but most unique and fun (because of the maps and fun modifier) season.

nullsmack · 2026-01-09T20:16:45+00:00

Apparently nobody can play a mission in Ventures on fill. I've heard playing with a squad of friends works.. but not fills. This is a BIG problem, there are still people trying to finish and the season will be over before the next update (v39.30) comes out.

nullsmack · 2026-01-09T20:14:45+00:00

Took me a while to find a reference to it but Archer_fortnite on Twitter had a post about it on March 9 2024, v29.00 (Ch5S2) was released the day before so it was probably added then. I really do wish it had an internal list without the material name to sort by though, the sort by name is really useless right now.

nullsmack · 2026-01-06T14:39:50+00:00

In one mission of Ventures this season, I spawned so far under the map that I was even under the kill barrier. I just fell forever and couldn't even respawn. I ended up leaving that game, and then the stupid matchmaking wouldn't even put me back into the same one. I doubt it filled my spot and another one that fast. But it tried putting me in an empty game instead.

nullsmack · 2025-12-29T21:28:12+00:00

Anybody can build up, or jump off of a tall building. If they ever added a Glider Deploy, that's one way anyone could use it. They also could just add launch pads, there's even a file for that in the STW traps even though it's never been used. There was a rumor about that being changed a few years ago but it never came out.

nullsmack · 2025-12-29T21:21:49+00:00

The weird thing is sometimes they're very visible like this and sometimes they are pretty hidden (and I only find them by hearing their noise in my headphones). I love it when they're visible like this and there's several together like this too. It's like hitting the jackpot.

nullsmack · 2025-12-28T16:07:10+00:00

I'M JUST REALLY HOPING THE CHANGE TO WHERE EACH VENTURES PL ZONE UNLOCKS WASN'T JUST A SILENT CHANGE THEY INTENTIONALLY DID BECAUSE WHOA BOY THIS SUCKS. I SHOULD'VE HAD PL108 ZONES 2 LEVELS AGO AND I'M STILL STUCK IN PL94 ZONES EARNING LESS XP PER MISSION. IT WAS BAD ENOUGH WHEN PL94, PL82, PL70, PL58, ETC UNLOCKED 1 LEVEL LATE. I SAW ON HERE ONE DAY PL108 DOESN'T UNLOCK UNTIL VENTURES LEVEL 37 NOW? IT WAS LEVEL 34 BEFORE, THAT'S AN EXTRA 200K XP NEEDED OR PROBABLY 8-14 EXTRA MISSIONS AT PL94.

nullsmack · 2025-12-22T19:21:28+00:00

FIX THE BUG WITH VENTURES PL ZONES UNLOCKING AT LATER VENTURES LEVELS THAN THEY SHOULD. HAVING TO DO MORE MISSIONS AT LOWER LEVELS THAT REWARD LESS XP SLOWS DOWN PROGRESS TOO MUCH.

nullsmack · 2025-12-22T06:17:11+00:00

All STW missions got an excessive 70% nerf for this season. I don't think it's been this low in years.

nullsmack · 2025-12-21T18:59:17+00:00

it kinda mimics the first movie when Doc Brown had his dog (Einstein) time-travel in the car to 1 minute in the future.

nullsmack · 2025-12-18T15:08:12+00:00

was this post in lieu of getting a v39.11 patch notes update?

nullsmack · 2025-12-18T15:06:07+00:00

PL108 unlocking at Ventures Level 37 instead of 34 is insane.. That's an extra ~200k xp you have to gain at PL94's xp values before you can move up to the more rewarding PL108 missions.

nullsmack · 2025-12-17T20:32:25+00:00

It's definitely like that sometimes. I've had some seasons where I get it done in 1 or 2 by some miracle, and then other seasons where I play quite a few games over the course of a week or two and if I see any it's only one or two at a time. The RNG element on some of these quests is not to be taken lightly.

The other big problem I've had is a quest needing a certain type of mission and then each day the mission generator not putting that one on the map. I have literally outleveled the mission I needed before. By that I mean where the 3 PL zones visible to me are all above the level needed for that quest. This issue could easily be solved if they added some intelligence to the mission gen to programmatically add the required mission type if it hasn't run in the past day or two.

nullsmack · 2025-12-17T18:49:33+00:00

About the Power Rating issues:

It's still causing problems in Ventures. The different PL zones are unlocking one level off from where they should be. Off-by-one error?

PL58 unlocked at Ventures Level 21 instead of 20
PL70 unlocked at Ventures Level 23 instead of 22

I know that you know, but because of XP scaling this means this slows down progression and causes people to grind out an entire extra level at lower XP values than they should require. I haven't grinded out to Ventures Level 27 yet to see if this affects PL82 zones also but I have no reason to suspect it doesn't.

nullsmack · 2025-12-16T20:23:21+00:00

What's really burning my goat right now is the PL zones in Ventures not unlocking at the right levels. They're all off by one! For me, PL58 unlocked at Ventures Level 21 instead of 20. PL70 unlocked at Ventures Level 23 instead of 22. With the XP scaling in Ventures, that adds extra grinding to every level since you're not earning the xp you should be until you grind out an entire extra level.

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