Fortnite Ballistic: Ranks, Beginner Tips & Best Guns

Ballistic is a new mode offering tactical team-based Fortnite gaming as a first person shooter. If you’re just finding out about it, then welcome to our article on the tips you need for immediate Fortnite Ballistic gameplay, as well as an overview of some key Fortnite Ballistic weapons.

We’re not here to tell you how to play Fortnite Ballistic — jump in and have fun. This piece will help you get the most out of the new game mode. You may even find it’s your new favorite way to play. We hope the below will help you get started.

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. What is Fortnite Ballistic?
3. Best Fortnite Ballistic Beginner Tips
4. Best Fortnite Guns in Ballistic Mode
5. Fortnite Ballistic Ranks
6. The Bottom Line
7. FAQs

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Table of Contents

1. Key Takeaways
2. What is Fortnite Ballistic?
3. Best Fortnite Ballistic Beginner Tips
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4. Best Fortnite Guns in Ballistic Mode
5. Fortnite Ballistic Ranks
6. The Bottom Line
7. FAQs

Best Fortnite Ballistic Beginner Tips

10. If It’s Broken, Fix It

The best way for you to play Ballistic may not be how others play it. Simply put, if recommended play styles aren’t working for you, or you cannot get on with the ‘best gun’, then switch it up. Maybe you’re a tactician, maybe you’re better at pushing into action, or maybe you’re better at hanging back. Hey, perhaps you’re great with a gun others don’t like. Find the way you can best play and help your team by trial and error.

9. Make Use of Ballistic’s Reticle Settings

Fortnite Ballistic offers two reticle settings in the Game UI under ‘Reticle & Damage Feedback’. One setting allows your reticle/crosshairs to widen to show the spread of your weapon. The second allows your reticle to move away from the center of the screen to signify the recoil your gun offers.

If you find those useful to respond to in-game, then keep them active. If you’d rather have a static reticle position regardless of the gun, turn them both off. Or have one of them on and one of them off. You know, you do you.

8. Learn and Use the Map

With it in early access at the time of writing, there’s only one Fortnite Ballistic map available to play: Skyline 10. But this goes for any future maps. Learn a map as quickly as possible (ideally in unranked mode) if you want to know it like the back of your hand. This way, you’ll understand the chokepoints, the ideal places to use your flex gadgets, and the tactical positions to take up for the benefit of your team.

7. Make Use of Cover but Don’t Camp

As you work out the best positions in a round of Fortnite Ballistic, do the basics well. Use cover when moving around the map – particularly if you are new to the game type. However, don’t camp in the same place every round (unless it works, just kidding). While cover is essential while learning the map, ensuring you don’t become predictable will make you harder to pin down. Equally, overexposing yourself to the enemy can also be a disaster. Rotate around the map as needed, using smart uses of cover to create angles while avoiding multiple lines of enemy fire wherever possible.

6. Choose Your Flex Gadget Wisely

You get a choice for your flex gadget of pulse grenade, recon grenade, frag grenade, or bubble shield. Make sure you pick the one for your loadout that can offer your team the best support you can offer. These will lock in and cannot be changed mid-game, so you’ll need to go with the one you want to utilize. Of course, you can only learn them by using them (which is why Unranked is a good option).

5. Understand Bubble Shields

Bubble shields aren’t the most well-known of items in Ballistic. Here’s a crash course: they cannot be fired into or out from, making them safe from bullets, explosions, and incoming grenades. However, they cannot block the effects of a flashbang, and they cannot block other bubble shields. Yep, this means you can chain bubble shields for safer passage, but you won’t be able to shoot out of them while you’re inside.

4. You Can Recon in Smoke and Flash

Flash grenades and smoke grenades are important in Ballistic, blinding, and blocking vision, but recon grenades can still ping enemies even through flash and smoke. Use this information as you will. That’s it, that’s the tip.

3. Communicate With Your Teammates

Like in any good team-based game or mode, your teammates and teamwork will often define victories or losses. Communication is key, and if you’re able to get on the same tactical page that’s even better. Playing with people you know will immeasurably improve your chances, but learning how your teammates play across the rounds can allow you to adapt and fill in the gaps your team needs or support in a way beneficial to the team.

2. Don’t Go Solo

Going solo in team games often results in annihilation. That’s just a fact. Unless you have an unholy amount of FPS skill, reflexes, and a lot of luck on your side, you will often be better near your teammates. This means you can cover each other, move together, and react as a team. Going solo can work out well, but it’s not a main strategy for a team game…pretty much ever.

1. Use Smoke and Flash Grenades

Yes, this is number one. In some games, flash and smoke grenades are a bit meh. In Ballistic, they are not. A smoke grenade lasts 12 seconds and is an effective tool for denial of vision once it blooms (this takes about a second). Several smoke grenades can be used as an effective tool to push or an effective tool to shroud your defense. Flashbangs can affect player vision for 4-5 seconds, effectively blinding them for 2-3. But don’t forget, if you look away from a flash, you’ll only be affected for about one second. Just don’t tell the other team.

Best Fortnite Guns in Ballistic Mode

Although the available Fortnite Ballistic guns are limited to 10 in early access, there are clear favorites emerging. The top of these usually go in this order:

3. Hyper SMG or Striker AR

The hyper SMG is a close-quarters battle option, that is fully automatic and does less damage than some other weapons but is perfect for blitzing into players when they’re not expecting you. Its range isn’t great, and there are better damage weapons, which is why the Striker AR is one of the best Fortnite guns in Ballistic.

The Striker AR is a fully automatic assault rifle, offering a bit of a better balance for some at range. It’s fast fire, though, but also lower damage (compared to other ARs). It’s also familiar among Fortnite guns and a good option for many.

2. Nemesis AR

Assault Rifles usually dominate the ‘best gun’ lists for FPS games, and their varieties of range and power are often the reason. TheNemesis AR is one to go for if you want a slower fire rate but more damage per shot. Preferable for more static shooting where a single shot means more value.

1. Enforcer AR

For many, the Enforcer AR offers the best option art longer range for assault rifles while not being a sniper rifle. It is semi-automatic, but its damage is impressive, meaning if you can land consistently then it’s certainly a good primary to opt for.

Fortnite Ballistic Ranks

Looking to reach the Fortnite Ballistic leaderboard? You’ll need to climb the ranks first. And there are 18 of them. The available Fortnite Ballistic ranks for the Ranked match mode are, in ascending order:

• Bronze III
• Bronze II
• Bronze I
• Silver III
• Silver II
• Silver I
• Gold III
• Gold II
• Gold I
• Platinum III
• Platinum II
• Platinum I
• Diamond III
• Diamond II
• Diamond I
• Unreal
• Champion
• Elite

The Bottom Line

Our Fortnite Ballistic beginner tips will help take you from a trepidatious newcomer to a seasoned team slayer. As there’s only one map and 10 guns in the game so far, there’s less variety in what you can do at present, so learning the fundamental skills is easier than knowing all the variables. We recommend becoming accustomed to the smoke bombs and flash grenades, going in with friends, and ensuring you’re rocking an AR to keep yourself deadly on the battlefield; good luck, we believe in you.

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