The Islander Prevalent is a vehicle in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Chapter 2: Season 3.
Description[]
The Prevalent is an urban sedan. As such, it has 4 tires and 4 seats, as well as 4 windows, a windshield and a rear windshield. It's a car of average speed with standard fuel consumption, but it suffers greatly on unsuited terrain and goes much faster on road.
The Prevalent has a decent drifting, but it's only useful at high velocities, otherwise the vehicle won't be able to quickly turn, unlike the Whiplash or the Nitro Drifter. It features no kind of boost and all its variants have 800HP. Once the health bar has been emptied, the vehicle will enter a death state and then explode, turning into a wreckage and starting a fire. If damaged, its glass panels, tires or health bar can be restored through a Repair Torch, Campfires or Chrome.
Like all cars, it can connect to Radio Stations and play a honk, and is moddable with vehicle mods.
Variants[]
The Prevalent has 3 variations.
History[]
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
- Update v13.40: Introduced the Islander Prevalent, including the Taxi Prevalent and the Prevalent GG2020. They can be found booted.
Chapter 2: Season 5[]
- Unknown: Changed all cars to no longer be pushed back by standard ballistic bullets.
Chapter 2: Season 6[]
- Update v16.20: Cars can now be modded with Vehicle Mod: Off-Road Tires. Prevalents have a chance to spawn with it already attached.
- Added the Prevalent to Creative.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
- Update v17.00: Added the IO Prevalent, sporting superior stats all around. It spawns in Imagined Order occupied locations (with a 100% spawn rate and never booted).
Chapter 2: Season 8[]
- Update v18.20: Players can now stand on top of moving vehicles.
Chapter 3: Season 1[]
- Update v19.00: Set the new Prevalent spawns all around the Artemis map.
- Vaulted the IO Prevalent.
- Prevalents can no longer randomly spawn with Off-Road Tires already applied.
- Update v19.20: Unvaulted the IO Prevalent with a 100% spawn rate around Covert Cavern.
- IO Patrols drive IO Prevalents to scout the island.
- Three IO Prevalents at Covert Cavern spawn with Off-Road Tires already attached.
Chapter 3: Season 2[]
- Update v20.00: Added a new camouflage camo paint job for the Prevalent, available in many colorations. It is purely visual and doesn't mark a variant of the vehicle.
- All cars can now be modded with Vehicle Mod: Cow Catcher.
- Added numerous more IO Prevalents on the map.
Chapter 3: Season 3[]
- Update v21.00: Removed the camouflage camo paint job for the Prevalent. Added a new spray painted paint job.
Chapter 3: Season 4[]
- Update v22.00: Some Prevalents now have a chance to spawn modded with a Cow Catcher.
Chapter 4: Season 1[]
- Update v23.00: Set new spawns for the Prevalent on Asteria.
- Vaulted the IO Prevalent.
Chapter 4: Season 2[]
- Update v24.00: Most Prevalents have been replaced by Nitro Drifters.
- Updated the engine sounds of all Prevalents to match the IO Prevalent.
Chapter 4: Season 4[]
- Update v26.00: Only three Prevalents remain on the map. One of them is guaranteed to be a Prevalent GG2020.
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
- Update v27.00: Vaulted the Islander Prevalent.
Chapter 5: Season 3[]
- Update v30.00: No longer takes damage when driving with missing tires.
Chapter 2 Remix[]
- Update v32.00: Unvaulted the Islander Prevalent.
- November 5th 2024:
- Reduced vertical velocity launch by 96%.
- Reduced forward velocity launch by 98%.
- Limit put on max launch speed.
Chapter 6: Season 1[]
- Update v33.00: Vaulted the Islander Prevalent.
Trivia[]
- When significantly damaged, the Prevalent will lose the lock on its trunk, causing it to flap around.
- Prior to its inclusion as a drivable vehicle, the Prevalent was used for most car props on the Chapter 2 map. Included as one of these props was a police car, which was removed around May of 2020, in line with controversy surrounding police brutality which prompted the model's removal. Consequentially, the drivable model for the police Prevalent was completely scrapped.
- The center dashboard had a screen taken from a Garmin dedicated car GPS.
- The Nitro Drifter features the same interior as the Prevalent, but the screen shows a 1980s synthwave video.
- The Message Feed when eliminating a player with a Prevalent is shown as "eliminated with a Sedan", referring to the Prevalent's body style instead of the model as in other cars.
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