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Epic Games is Adding Glider Redeployment Back Into Fortnite

An old feature is coming back to Fortnite this week after the new update as your glider will start acting like it used to be. As part of the 7.20 update, you'll be able to redeploy your glider. For those who came into the game later and don't remember, if you were at a certain height, you could redeploy your glider for a safe ride down rather than falling to your death. Some viewed it as a way of cheating death and not getting a kill, so the devs took it out. Now it's back in the game, but at a price: it takes up an inventory slot. So if you really want it that badly, you got it, you'll just have to locate it and equip it. Here are more details on it from the Fortnite devs.

The goal with the item is to provide mobility and utility, but in a form that can be balanced and iterated upon. By implementing glider redeploy as an item we can iterate on multiple different levels (i.e. redeploy height, movement speed, drop chance, charge count), including inventory slot tension.

Quick overview on how Glider Redeploy will work in v7.20:

• The Gliders item will take up an inventory slot and can be found from normal loot sources.
• Activate Glider Redeploy as you normally would, you do not need to select the item.
  • Each deploy will remove one charge, when all charges are used the item disappears.
  • Use of Launch Pads, Rifts-to-Go, and LTM respawns will not consume a charge, as these put you in Skydiving mode.
• The new Glider Redeploy item can be found in floor loot, Chests, Vending Machines and Supply Llamas.

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