Honest Review: Fortnite Quick Weapon Swap...Is It Game-Changing?

Quick weapon is amazing! So fast! The original way will feel so slow and cluncky after a week… promise!

The best thing about quick weapon is that it gives you an extra button, which I use for jumping. So now I don't have to take my hands off the stick when trying to jump, it's basically a scuff controller

I use quick weapon, jump with L1, total game changer for me. Everyone on controller should give it a chance

Fortnite should allow all the buttons to act differently when holding r1. Say you didn’t have enough buttons to have a sprint button or a maybe a ping button, well then you could easily add that action to R1 + L1. If they did that then they could add even more actions that otherwise wouldn’t have worked since the controller didn’t have enough buttons. You have almost double the buttons if they used my idea. The only thing stopping them is that everyone would have to use that new layout if they wanted to use the new actions fortnite would implement which casual people and little kids wouldn’t want to do and the game would be unfair since they couldn’t do these extra actions. Still the base idea of having every button being fully customizable while hold r1 would still work.

Like the others here you really need to set L1/left bumper as jump, honestly it's so good. Finally us filthy controller casuals can aim and jump at the same time.

just jump with l1 bro, I use quick weapon and I jump with L1, 100% game changer

love that you did a vid on this, Buddy! i'm pretty new to FN (just started playing back in December) and i only started using QWS in the last couple of weeks. gotta say...i dig it a lot right now. not having put in tons of hours with the OG cycle through with L1/L2, i was able to adapt to it pretty quickly and it feels even better than the default-ish setup i had going. getting the right bind customization has been a journey, but the closer i get to the perfect combo, the more i like it 👍

Yooo! Thank for the feature made me day haha🤟 you definitely picked it up quicker than me I’m nearly there though after about a week. It definitely isn’t perfect but the main benefit is freeing up the LB to use so you have an extra button you can use without having to take your hands off the stick, especially when you have a gatekeeper and every shot has to count😅😂 Awesome video keep up the good content!😎

I LOVEEE the quick weapon swap. Freed up my L2 and if you have inventory preferences set the muscle memory comes pretty quick. Puts you almost at the same speed as a KBM player with weapon swapping

Great video! I’ve heard they’re still updating quick weapon so in the future you may have the option the disable square, triangle, circle & X and just make it d pad. I changed to quick weapon and haven’t gone back tbh. It takes time to get the muscle memory down but once you do it’s much faster imo. The regular swapping felt limiting with the delay in between swapping items. It’s easier not having to constantly look down at my inventory or count out my taps to ensure I don’t launch a med kit at my opponent.

I do have it so that the L1 button can switch like it always did you have to go to the key binds on controller so you can switch normally with the L1 or switch between your two weapon slots with R1

Interesting. I do tend fumble weapon swapping on occasion. Quick weapon sounds worth a shot.

I agree with your conclusion. I feel like for ppl who just couldn't feel comfortable with the old way of swaping weapons this is great, but that's not me and while at times I still get griefed because things don't swap how I want trying to change now would just confuse my head

Iit took me a while to get this down but when fortnite took it away for that day or two I literally couldn't play the old way. I didn't think to use L1 for jump though cuz I press L3 sometimes when I don't want to

Always love seeing another take on it. To start I never list ANYTHING as game changing personally. These are all variations on preference and what works best for each player. Overall, once I adjusted to it, I prefer Quick Swap over normal Next/Previous weapon swap. I'm sensing there are some differences based on default button mapping between Playstation and Xbox controllers. I play on an Elite Series 2 with 4 bumpers. I personally did not have any bindings to Place Marker in my instance. Also, you did miss one other setting under "Controller Mapping". You can pick which button activates the Quick Weapon feature. On Xbox Elite, the default is RB which is what I left it as. My personal settings are: - Show Diamond Delay = Disabled - Toggle Behavior = Slot 2 - Instant Toggle = On The instant single click swap to Shotgun and single click swap between Shotgun and Slot 2 is VERY nice in my opinion. While I organized my custom weapon slots already to take advantage of this, I would sometimes notice it when swapping to heals or mobility items which I would tend to have in Slots 3 and 4. I use the Instant Toggle to go between Slots 1 and 2 and then hold RB and hit the appropriate button for Slots 3-5. I would argue that mis-selecting the slot is equally as likely using Quick Swap as with the original method. In Quick Swap, I might in the moment choose the wrong key when I'm trying to swap to Slots 3, 4 or 5. But with the original method I would often "over shoot" the slot by rapid pressing the weapon swap buttons too quickly. In short, it takes effort to get familiar with. I think it's worth it to have one click jump to specific slots. I prefer it. But I could easily go back to the original method as well.

I love it personally. I know I always have my shotgun and secondary weapon whenever I need it without any misclicks

This video and the comments should be game-changers! I'm definitely trying this tonight. I'm so sick of dying because I can't get my bunker or shock out fast enough. Did you end up staying with a quick weapon?

I use it exclusively without the diamond. I use R1 to switch between slot 1 and 2. The I hit B plus Y for slot 3 and the B plus A to get slot 5. B alone is slot 3. This is amazing. I would never use the diamond. This is on a elite pro 2 Xbox controller.

I concur. I wish u could customize a bit more. I wouldnt even mind if the left paddle just swapped between 1-2. Then the right just goes right.

I have just started using a 4 bcak paddles was wondering if i can congif them n not bind to other buttons