Burst Assault Rifle

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This article is about Burst Assault Rifle. For Chapter 3 weapon, see Striker Burst Rifle.

Burst Assault Rifle
Description
Assault Weapon: Burst-fire. A versatile rifle that rewards careful aim and can be fired in short bursts.
Introduced	Pre-Season
Information
Weapon Class	Assault Rifle
Ammo Type	Medium Bullets
Stats
Damage per Second	114.5 (Common) 136.6 (Legendary)
Damage	31 (Common) 37 (Legendary)
Fire Rate	3.69
Shots per Burst	2 (3 during OG)
Magazine Size	20
Reload Time	2.75s (Common) 2.25s (Legendary)
Critical Hit Damage	1.5x

“

Assault Weapon: Burst-fire. A versatile rifle that rewards careful aim and can be fired in short bursts.

”

— In-Game Description

The Burst Assault Rifle is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in the Pre-Season alongside the Battle Royale game mode. The Burst Assault Rifle has two Mythic variants: Ocean's Burst Assault Rifle and Slone's Burst Assault Rifle.

Functionality

The Burst Assault Rifle is a burst-fire, medium ranged weapon that fires 2-round burst shots (during Fortnite OG, the weapon fired in a 3-round burst). It excels at medium ranged combat, but has the ability to perform decently at long ranges. It is weaker at close ranges due to its burst fire, meaning it's very punishing upon missing a burst. The Burst Assault Rifle has first shot accuracy enabling longer ranged engagements to be more useful.

Burst Assault Rifle in action

Stats

Burst Assault Rifle uses Medium Bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x.

• Current version
• Season: OG version

	Burst Assault Rifle (Common)
DPS	114.39
DAMAGE	31
MAGAZINE SIZE	20
FIRE RATE	3.69
RELOAD TIME	2.75
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	31

	Burst Assault Rifle (Uncommon)
DPS	118.08
DAMAGE	32
MAGAZINE SIZE	20
FIRE RATE	3.69
RELOAD TIME	2.62s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	32

	Burst Assault Rifle (Rare)
DPS	125.46
DAMAGE	34
MAGAZINE SIZE	20
FIRE RATE	3.69
RELOAD TIME	2.5s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	34

	Burst Assault Rifle (Epic)
DPS	132.84
DAMAGE	36
MAGAZINE SIZE	20
FIRE RATE	3.69
RELOAD TIME	2.38s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	36

	Burst Assault Rifle (Legendary)
DPS	136.53
DAMAGE	37
MAGAZINE SIZE	20
FIRE RATE	3.69
RELOAD TIME	2.25s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	37

	Burst Assault Rifle (OG) (Common)
DPS	93.84
DAMAGE	23
MAGAZINE SIZE	30
FIRE RATE	4.08
RELOAD TIME	2.75s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	23

	Burst Assault Rifle (OG) (Uncommon)
DPS	97.92
DAMAGE	24
MAGAZINE SIZE	30
FIRE RATE	4.08
RELOAD TIME	2.62s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	24

	Burst Assault Rifle (OG) (Rare)
DPS	102
DAMAGE	25
MAGAZINE SIZE	30
FIRE RATE	4.08
RELOAD TIME	2.5s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	25

	Burst Assault Rifle (OG) (Epic)
DPS	106.08
DAMAGE	26
MAGAZINE SIZE	30
FIRE RATE	4.08
RELOAD TIME	2.38s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	26

	Burst Assault Rifle (OG) (Legendary)
DPS	114.24
DAMAGE	28
MAGAZINE SIZE	30
FIRE RATE	4.08
RELOAD TIME	2.25s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	28

The Burst Assault Rifle is a hitscan weapon, with First Shot Accuracy enabled.

Damage falloff:

• Damage falloff begins at 50 meters (10 tiles).
• Damage steadily decreases down to 93% of its maximum at 75 meters (15 tiles).
• Damage reaches its minimum value of 84% of its maximum at 95 meters (19 tiles).

Burst Assault Rifle can be reloaded whilst aiming.

Obtained

From when the weapon was last available in Chapter 4: Season OG:

Rarity	Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop
Common	✖	✓	✖
Uncommon	✓	✓	✖
Rare	✓	✓	✖
Epic	✓	✖	✓
Legendary	✓	✖	✓

Strategy Guide

This section outlines a strategy.

Feel free to add tips, tricks and general advice about the topic.

• The Burst Assault Rifle has a decent DPS and high accuracy for a bloom-based weapon. It can used to eliminate targets in close-to-medium ranged combat.
• The Burst Assault Rifle is very weak against structures and it is ill-advised to use it against someone who is building cover.
• At very long distances, the Burst Assault Rifle has a higher chance of missing the second and third shot of the burst. Stick to close-to-medium-range for the best accuracy.
• The Burst Assault Rifle is not advisable to be used while hip firing, as it is very inaccurate while hip-firing.
• In the lower rarities, it's often more advisable to use another rifle that fires in a non-burst configuration, as many automatic Assault Rifles offer much higher DPS.
  • However, the accuracy and quick damage burst potential gives the Burst Assault Rifle the edge in specific circumstances, such as when the enemy only peeks out for brief periods of time.
• When using the three-round burst version, you can get an opponent's structure to very low HP before firing the Burst Assault Rifle. If you're accurate, the first and second shot will destroy the structure while the third will pierce through and hit the opponent, even while turbo-building.
  • This can be done with the two-round burst version as well, but it is much more difficult to pull off.

Weapon ID

The Burst Assault Rifle is referred to as Assault Semi Auto in the files.

• Common: WID_Assault_SemiAuto_Athena_C_Ore_T02
• Uncommon: WID_Assault_SemiAuto_Athena_UC_Ore_T03
• Rare: WID_Assault_SemiAuto_Athena_R_Ore_T03
• Epic: WID_Assault_SemiAuto_Athena_VR_Ore_T03
• Legendary: WID_Assault_SemiAuto_Athena_SR_Ore_T03

History

Pre Season

• Update v1.6: Added the Semi-Auto Rifle in Common, Uncommon, and Rare rarities to Battle Royale along with the entire game mode.
• Update v1.7.1: Renamed the Semi-Auto Rifle to Assault Rifle (Burst), as the weapon doesn't fire semi-automatically.

Season 2

• Update v1.11: Renamed the Assault Rifle (Burst) to Burst Assault Rifle.

Season 4

• Update v4.20: Added Epic and Legendary variants of the Burst Assault Rifle.

Season 5

• Update v5.40: Burst Assault Rifle accuracy adjustments.
  • When holding down the trigger, the first 2 bursts are more accurate.
  • Spread down sights benefit increased from 35% to 40%.
  • Crouch spread benefit reduced from 25% to 20%.
  • Jumping/Falling spread penalty reduced from 25% to 10%.
  • Sprinting spread penalty reduced from 50% to 30%.

Season 7

• Content Update v7.10 - 3: Vaulted the Common, Uncommon and Rare Burst Assault Rifle variants.
• Update v7.30: Vaulted the remaining Burst Assault Rifle rarities.

Season 9

• Content Update 2 v9.30 (July 4th 2019): Unvaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in all rarities.
  • July 5th 2019: Vaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 1

• Update v11.00: Unvaulted all variants of the Burst Assault Rifle
  • The low tiers now use what was previously the high tiers model, and the high tiers have an entirely new model.
  • The new low tiers icon and textures have been updated.
  • It can now be upgraded at an Upgrade Bench.
  • Increased fire rate and increased accuracy, mainly on the Epic and Legendary variants.

Chapter 2: Season 2

• Update v12.00: Henchmen will drop Uncommon Burst Assault Rifles when eliminated.
  • Rare, Epic and Legendary Burst Assault Rifles can be found by opening Henchmen Chests.

Chapter 2: Season 3

• Update v13.00: Burst Assault Rifle adjustments across the board:
  • Fires in 2-round bursts instead of 3-round bursts
  • Damage increased by 4
  • Reduced headshot multiplier from 2.0x to 1.5x
  • Reduced magazine size from 30 to 20

Chapter 2: Season 5

• Update v15.00: Vaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 7

• Update v17.00: Unvaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in all rarities.
  • It can now only be obtained from crafting an Assault Rifle or a Heavy Assault Rifle with Nuts 'n' Bolts.
• Content Update v17.10: Rare to Legendary rarities of the Burst Assault Rifle can be crafted into a Pulse Rifle of the same rarity using Alien Nanites.
• Sneak Week: The Burst Assault Rifle can now be crafted from a Suppressed Assault Rifle with 1 Nuts 'n' Bolts.

Chapter 2: Season 8

• Update v18.00: The Burst Assault Rifle can now be obtained outside of crafting. It can now be used to craft a Suppressed Assault Rifle.

Chapter 3: Season 1

• Update v19.00: Vaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in All Rarities.

Chapter 3: Season 2

• Update v20.00: The visuals and audio for the Epic and Legendary Burst Assault Rifle were changed to match the Common, Uncommon and Rare versions. The weapon still remains vaulted.
  • In addition, the extra zoom on the Epic and Legendary variants was removed.

Chapter 4: Season 1

• Content Update v23.10: Unvaulted the Burst Assault Rifle in all Rarities.
• Update v23.20: Burst Assault Rifle adjustments across the board:
  • Fire rate decreased from 3.95 to 3.69.
  • Reload time decreased from 2.86s/2.73s/2.6s/2.47s/2.34s to 2.75s/2.62s/2.5s/2.38s/2.25s.
  • Increased accuracy for all rarities.
  • When spraying the Epic and Legendary versions of the Burst Assault Rifle, the bloom no longer resets to first shot accuracy after every subsequent burst.
  • Increased recoil on the second bullet of the burst.
  • Decreased damage falloff.

Chapter 4: Season 2

• Update v24.00: Vaulted the Burst Assault Rifle.

Chapter 4: Season OG

• Update v27.00: Unvaulted the Burst Assault Rifle.
• Adjustments across the board:
  • Fire Rate Increased from 3.69 to 4.08.
  • Damage decreased from 31/33/34/36/37 to 23/24/25/26/28.
  • Magazine Size Increased from 20 to 30.
  • It once again fires in 3-shot bursts instead of 2-shot bursts.
  • Updated audio to reflect on burst change.
    • Also affects Creative variant (Issue).
  • Note that these stat changes are not present in Creative as of now, as the weapon was remade under a new weapon ID.
• Update v27.00 Hotfix : Vaulted the Burst Assault Rifle.

Chapter 5: Season 1

• Update v28.00: Removed the OG Burst Assault Rifle weapon ID's from the files.

Sounds

Sound Type	Rarity	Audio
Pullout	Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary
Shooting	Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary
Reload	Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary
Pickup	Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary
Drop	Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary

Trivia

• The Burst Assault Rifle after the Update v13.00 Patch was the first Burst Weapon with a two round burst.

Visuals

• The Burst Assault Rifle's model is based on the French FAMAS F1.
  • The Epic and Legendary rarities were formerly based on the Austrian Steyr AUG-A3.
    • The charging handle is on the right while the real life version has it on the left and it’s not sticking outwards.
    • The real life AUG-A3 doesn't have a 2 round burst function. As such, the model for this weapon was introduced when the weapon was a 3 round burst.
      • Furthermore, the AUG-A3 has an optional burst function, and can fire in full auto configuration in real life.
    • The model for the Epic and Legendary rarities was reverted to the FAMAS F1, most likely to prevent confusion, as the new Striker Burst Rifle uses the visuals of the AUG-A3.
      • However, its Mythic versions (Slone's and Ocean's Burst Assault Rifle) still use the AUG-A3 based model.
• The Chapter 1, Low Tier Burst Assault Rifle shares elements from the Russian AKS-74U / AK-102.
  • This is the same render as the weapon Predator in Fortnite: Save the World.
• The Chapter 1 High Tier Burst Assault Rifles was also based on the FAMAS F1, using a slightly different render of the weapon.
  • This render of the weapon had a smaller carrying handle, a darker and less polished metal finish, and a lighter colored magazine. It was also cleaner, and less worn compared to the current render.
  • This is the same render as the Lynx Schematic in Fortnite: Save the World.

Gallery

High Tier Burst Assault Rifle prior to Chapter 2: Season 1

Low Tier Burst Assault Rifle prior to Chapter 2: Season 1

The High Tier Burst Assault Rifle prior to Chapter 3: Season 2

Concept Art for the Chapter 1 Low Tier version of the weapon, likely intended for use in Save the World.