Heavy Assault Rifle

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Heavy Assault Rifle
Details
Rarity	Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary
Class	Assault Weapon
Bullet Type	Medium Bullets
Statistics
DPS	135 (Common) 165 (Legendary)
Damage	36 (Common) 44 (Legendary)
Fire Rate	3.75
Magazine Size	25
Reload Time	3.08 Sec (Common) 2.52 Sec (Legendary)
Critical Hit Damage	1.5x

The Heavy Assault Rifle is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was added 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. The Heavy Assault Rifle has first shot accuracy enabling longer ranged engagements to be useful.

Heavy Assault Rifle in action

Stats

Heavy Assault Rifles range from dealing 36-44 damage per shot (135 - 165 Damage per second). All Assault Rifles use Medium Bullets. The Heavy Assault Rifle has a Headshot Multiplier of 1.5x.

Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle
Common	Uncommon	Rare
DPS: 135	DPS: 142.5	DPS: 150
Damage: 36	Damage: 38	Damage: 40
Fire-Rate: 3.75	Fire-Rate: 3.75	Fire-Rate: 3.75
Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25
Reload Time: 3.08s	Reload Time: 2.94s	Reload Time: 2.8s

Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle
Epic	Legendary
DPS: 157.5	DPS: 165
Damage: 42	Damage: 44
Fire-Rate: 3.75	Fire-Rate: 3.75
Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25
Reload Time: 2.66s	Reload Time: 2.52s

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).

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

Obtained

From when the weapon was last available in Chapter 2: Season 7:

Rarity	Chest	Rare Chest	Cosmic Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop	Fishing (Plain)	Fishing (Hole)	Crafting
Common	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖	✖
Uncommon	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖	✖
Rare	✓	✖	✓	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖
Epic	✓	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖
Legendary	✓	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖

Combining a Heavy Assault Rifle with:

• 1 Nuts 'n' Bolts creates a Burst Assault Rifle.
• 1 Alien Nanites creates a Pulse Rifle (Rare and above only).

Strategy Guide

The risk was calculated... but man am I bad at math.

This section outlines a strategy. Feel free to add tips, tricks and general advice about the topic.

• When you use a Heavy Assault Rifle, it is preferable to use at medium range. Close and long range is still powerful due to its high damage and accuracy, 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.
• Despite its high damage, the fire rate of the Heavy Assault Rifle make it generally unsuited to destroying structures.

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 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 Assault Rifle, of the weapon. (still in the vault)

Chapter 2: Season 8

• Update v18.00: Vaulted Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.

Trivia

• The Common, Uncommon, and Rare rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle are based on the Zastava M70 an unlicensed derivative of the AK-47. This icon was previously used for all rarities of the weapon before Chapter 2: Season 1. It was commonly mistaken by the community that the Heavy Assault rifle was a AK-47 and an AKM.
• The Epic and Legendary rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle appear to based on the American CMMG Mk47 Mutant.