The Heavy Assault Rifle is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Season 6. The Mythic variant of this weapon is Meowscles' Peow Peow Rifle.
Functionality[]
The Heavy Assault Rifle is a fully automatic, slow firing, medium ranged weapon. It excels at medium ranged combat, but has the ability to perform decently at long ranges.
Stats[]
Heavy Assault Rifle uses Medium Bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x.
Heavy Assault Rifle (Common) | |
---|---|
DPS | 135 |
DAMAGE | 36 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 25 |
FIRE RATE | 3.75 |
RELOAD TIME | 3.08s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 36 |
Heavy Assault Rifle (Uncommon) | |
---|---|
DPS | 142.5 |
DAMAGE | 38 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 25 |
FIRE RATE | 3.75 |
RELOAD TIME | 2.94s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 38 |
Heavy Assault Rifle (Rare) | |
---|---|
DPS | 150 |
DAMAGE | 40 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 25 |
FIRE RATE | 3.75 |
RELOAD TIME | 2.8s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 40 |
Heavy Assault Rifle (Epic) | |
---|---|
DPS | 157.5 |
DAMAGE | 42 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 25 |
FIRE RATE | 3.75 |
RELOAD TIME | 2.66s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 42 |
Heavy Assault Rifle (Legendary) | |
---|---|
DPS | 165 |
DAMAGE | 44 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 25 |
FIRE RATE | 3.75 |
RELOAD TIME | 2.52s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 44 |
The Heavy 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 80% of its maximum at 75 meters (15 tiles).
- Damage reaches its minimum value of 66% of its maximum at 100 meters (20 tiles).
The Heavy Assault Rifle cannot be reloaded whilst aiming.
Obtained[]
From when the weapon was last available in Chapter 4: Season 3:
Rarity | Chest | Rare
Chest |
Cosmic
Chest |
Floor
Loot |
Supply
Drop |
Fishing
(Plain) |
Fishing
(Hole) |
Team Rumble |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Common | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
Uncommon | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
Rare | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
Epic | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
Legendary | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
The Heavy Assault Rifle can only be obtained when spawning in Team Rumble.
- This weapon cannot be upgraded.
Strategy Guide[]
- When you use a Heavy Assault Rifle, it is preferable to use at medium range. At long range it is still powerful due to its high damage and accuracy when firing slowly, however.
- It is important to note that the weapon has a very large spread when firing at full auto, and also is very weak up close due to hipfire spread. It is advised to wait for its first shot accuracy to reset before firing each shot, or to fire in short bursts.
- Despite its high damage, the fire rate of the Heavy Assault Rifle make it generally unsuited to destroying structures.
- The Heavy Assault Rifle, like most weapons with the "Heavy" prefix, is rather noisy.
- Keep that in mind when attacking opponents at longer ranges, as it's likely any enemies close by will hear you firing even clearer than if you were to fire a different kind of assault rifle.
- When choosing between the Heavy Assault Rifle and other medium-range options, note the Heavy Assault Rifle's strengths of moderately high damage and tight initial accuracy, and its weaknesses of poor hip-fire accuracy, poor structure DPS, and high bloom when firing full-auto.
Weapon ID[]
The Heavy Assault Rifle is referred to as Assault_Heavy in the files.
- Common: WID_Assault_Heavy_Athena_C_Ore_T03
- Uncommon: WID_Assault_Heavy_Athena_UC_Ore_T03
- Rare: WID_Assault_Heavy_Athena_R_Ore_T03
- Epic: WID_Assault_Heavy_Athena_VR_Ore_T03
- Legendary: WID_Assault_Heavy_Athena_SR_Ore_T03
History[]
Season 6[]
- Update v6.21: Added Heavy Assault Rifles in Rare, Epic and Legendary rarities.
- Hotfix: Increased Accuracy by 20%, Decreased Recoil by 20%.
Season 7[]
- Update v7.10: Adjusted the Heavy Assault Rifle.
- Increased ADS accuracy bonus by 10%.
- Increased accuracy while standing still by 10%.
- Reduced vertical recoil by 6%.
- Base accuracy reduced by 30%.
- Reduced accuracy while jumping and falling by 60%.
Season 8[]
- Update v8.10: Rare, Epic, and Legendary rarities demoted to Common, Uncommon, and Rare.
- Damage decreased from 44/46/48 to 36/38/40.
Season 9[]
- Update v9.30: Increased Damage values from from 36/38/40 to 38/40/42.
Chapter 2: Season 1[]
- Update v11.40: Re-added Epic and Legendary variants of the Heavy Assault Rifle in with a new icon and model.
- Can be sidegraded to an Assault Rifle.
- Damage decreased from 38/40/42/44/46 to 33/35/37/39/41.
- Fire Rate increased from 3.75 to 4.25.
Chapter 2: Season 2[]
- Update v12.20: Added the Epic and Legendary variants to Creative.
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
- Update v13.00: Vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
Chapter 2: Season 5[]
- Update v15.00: Unvaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
- Increased Accuracy across the board.
Chapter 2: Season 6[]
- Update v16.00: Vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
- Update v17.00: Unvaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
- All rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle can be crafted into a Burst Assault Rifle of the same rarity using Nuts 'n' Bolts.
- Content Update v17.10: Rare to Legendary rarities of the Assault Rifle can be crafted into a Pulse Rifle of the same rarity using Alien Nanites.
- Update v17.30:
- Accuracy increased for the first 3 shots.
- Damage increased from 33/35/37/39/41 to 36/38/40/42/44.
- Fire Rate decreased from 4.25 to 3.75.
- Overall DPS decrease for the Heavy Assault Rifle.
- Those changes did not impact the mythic version, Meowscles' Peow Peow Rifle, of the weapon. (still in the vault)
Chapter 2: Season 8[]
- Update v18.00: Vaulted Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
Chapter 4: Season 3[]
- Update v25.00: Unvaulted the Uncommon variant of the Heavy Assault Rifle in Team Rumble only.
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
- Update v27.00 Hotfix #1: Unvaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
Chapter 5: Season 1[]
- Update v28.00: Vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle
Sounds[]
Sound Type | Rarity | Sound |
---|---|---|
Pullout | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Shooting | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Reload | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Pickup | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Drop | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary |
Trivia[]
- The Common, Uncommon, and Rare rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle are based on the Zastava M70, it may also resemble the Russian AKM or the AK-47. This icon was previously used for all rarities of the weapon before Chapter 2: Season 1.
- The Epic and Legendary rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle appear to based on the American CMMG Mk47 Mutant.
- The Heavy Assault Rifle does not have an in-game description.