Getting your hands on loot is essential to starting a match off right when it comes to
Fortnite Battle Royale.
And there’s a lot of factors that come into play concerning that; where you land when
hopping off the battle bus, how many other players are nearby while you’re trying to
stock up, and how lucky you are.
While that last factor is completely out of your control, some players have found ways
to help tip the odds in their favour.
So today, we’re taking a look at some of these loot strategies with our picks for the
top 10 Fortnite Looting Secrets Anyone Can Do.
10 The Superhero Mansion Let’s start off our list with a specific
loot spot!
Located to the south of Lonely Lodge, you can find the Superhero Mansion along the shore
of the map.
It’s a pretty large building that has a bunch of loot scattered around on the floor.
Inside, there’s a secret room that you can access when breaking through the floor.
And what’s stored away inside of that secret room?
Loot, of course.
The whole house is typically full of nice surprises, so we highly suggest you give it
a one over before leaving, and make sure that includes checking out its backyard.
It’s also worth noting that elsewhere on the map, there’s a super villain mansion,
too, which is arguably a little bit more fun to run around in.
9 Be Patient When you manage to get a kill early on in
the game, it’s always a good rule of thumb to give it a few moments before you decide
to raid the body for loot.
Depending on where you are on the map, if the kill was out in the open and you have
no cover, it could be a risky move immediately running over; you could very well be skipping
your way into someone else’s sniper eye line.
Fire fights can attract a lot of attention, so unless you’re inside a building and have
some solid cover, you never know whose got their eye on you, waiting for you to be their
next kill.
8 Protect Yourself and your Gear Riffing off of our last number, if you’re
out in the open, it’s always a good idea to build around yourself and your newly found
loot if you’re going to swap out any gear.
You may have just scored yourself that gold SCAR, but the dude on the roof of the building
behind you whose been watching your little fire fight has his sights on it too, and trust
us, he won’t hesitate to shoot if you’ve made yourself vulnerable.
7 Wailing Woods Moving on to some more landing locations for
the next few numbers!
South west of Wailing woods, there’s a bunch of shipping containers that contain loot.
It’s also a location that provides a decent amount of cover, and if you hack away at the
shipping containers, you’ll also get yourself some steel, although some players have complained
in the past that there isn’t enough of the building material that you get when you destroy
them.
6 Junk Junction Junk Junction, which exists at the top north
eastern point of the map, tends to be a reliable place for loot.
South East of its central point, there’s several derelict buildings that tend to have
some good loot.
But be warned; you’ll need building materials to reach some of these loot chests, so if
you’re not landing directly on top of one of those buildings, you may find it difficult
to navigate.
5 Anarchy Acres North west of Anarchy Acres, in between there
and Junk Junction, there’s a derelict motel that’s got a ton of loot in it.
Anarchy Acres tends to be a quieter spot on the map, and the nearby area is filled with
a lot of barns that often hide loot, too.
In addition to that, the mineshaft just west of Anarchy Arces has a hidden room that contains
a chest if you can get to it first.
4 Be Sneaky On the flip side of being patient, another
little trick is to be sneaky.
See some people engaging in a fire fight?
Wait it out in a bush, then take down the winner, who will likely be healing themselves,
thinking they’re out of harm’s way.
Another sneaky tactic is to linger around the edges of the storm.
For starters, people are likely to be too focused and panicked about getting hit by
the storm, meaning you could probably take advantage of that and knock them off, taking
their loot if you’re quick enough and like to live life on the EDGE.
It’s also a great way to watch your back without having to constantly worry about watching
your back, cause, you know, the storm will have killed anyone behind you.
3 USE YOUR EARS DAMNNIT Yes, there’s a lot of things going on in
Fortnite.
Sometimes it can be sensory overload.
But you should always try to keep your ears open, because that’s how you can track down
loot.
Even if you end up landing in an area you’re not overly familiar with, or the storm has
driven you to a part of the map you don’t often visit, keep your ears open and listening
for the magical tingling noise that chests make when you’re nearby them.
It could help you when it comes to a matter of life or death.
A good tip to help with this is to use headphones when you play; you’ll be able to hear better,
including gunshots and footsteps.
2 Landing is EVERYTHING There’s a few things you can do when it
comes to landing that will help give you an advantage.
For starters, try to decide where you’re going to land before you have to hop out of
the battle bus; having a strategy, even if it’s a weak one, is better than having none
at all.
Aiming for places on the map that have a good ratio between number of people who land there
versus amount of loot is usually a safe bet; we’re talking areas like Lucky Landing,
Anarchy Acres, Risky Reels, or around the North East corner of the map.
When dropping down, if you spot a weapon nearby, make sure you land next to it.
The faster you can arm yourself, the better, especially if someone else has decided to
land nearby you.
1 Statistics Recently, a study was done by author and gamer
Ford Games, who collected stats from over 1000 games he played of Fortnite.
These stats helped him determine where the best loot spots were that would give him the
highest advantage in winning a match.
The top five places according to his study were Mystery Mansion (which is just south
of Lonely Lodge), Rapid Racetrack, Hostile Headquarters (which is north east of snobby
shores), Haunted Hills and Lonely Lodge, in that order.
Out of the 38 games that he landed at Mystery Mansion, he finished in the top three in solos
or duos 22 times, 15 of those times being wins, all thanks to the loot he picked up
there.
There we have it friends!
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