Jetpacks were not vaulted in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2receiving some welcome improvements.
Although you don’t get any XP for finding Jetpacks, they are very useful for traversing the map, especially in No-Build mode. You can also aim your gun’s sights while hovering, making it easier to kill at longer ranges.
Below you will learn how to get Jetpacks in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2 and how to use jetpacks.
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How to Get Jetpacks in Fortnite
To find a Jetpack in Fortnite, you can go to an IO Airship or purchase one from an NPC.
There are currently five IO airships located above:
- command cave
- Coney Crossroads
- Tilted Towers
- rock pinwheels
- condominium canyon
There was an airship above the Daily Bugle, but it has now crashed in the eastern ocean. You can visit it to open an IO Chest and pick up floor loot, but it doesn’t contain a Jetpack.
You can either land on an IO Blimp or use an Ascender to access it from the ground. Once on the Blimp, go to its top floor. There are four doors on the top floor where you can find a Jetpack mounted on the wall next to each door, as long as other players haven’t taken them yet.
Once you locate a Jetpack, press and hold the button that appears when you approach it to pick it up. You will automatically equip the Jetpack, but it will take up an inventory slot.
Alternatively, you can purchase a Jetpack from The Scientist inside Synapse Station for 580 gold bars. He has five in his possession, but it counts down if other players also buy him a Jetpack. Synapse Station is in the desert located in the southern area of the map.
Chapter 3 Season 2 is here! New additions include cow catchers, red and blue lines across the Fortnite map, and rebuild quests, including finding and destroying an IO build jammer and recovering missing battle bus blueprints. There are also resistance quests to complete, including deploying water relays and transmitting data to a drone. Jetpacks are also back! Meanwhile, the Victory Crowns and Character Collection have been reset, while there’s a new Victory Umbrella to find.
How to Use Jetpacks in Fortnite
Once you’ve located one, it’s time to use that Jetpack for a quick traverse and gain an advantage in battle!
To use a Jetpack in Fortnite, jump then hold the jump button in the air. You will continue to hover as long as the jump button is pressed. Your character will fall as soon as you drop it, but you can press the jump button again to resume hovering.
Keep an eye out for the twin bars on the back of the Jetpack. This tells you how much time is left until the Jetpack overheats and drops you to the ground. There is still fall damage with the Jetpack equipped, so make sure you are near the ground or above water when the meter is low.
As long as you have fuel in the Jetpack, the red bars will refill quickly, like your sprint meter, and you can continue flying around the map once it’s full again.
However, once the full gauge of the item bar is depleted, the Jetpack will disappear. You can get another one by visiting an IO Airship again, returning to the Scientist at Synapse Station, or looting someone who had one equipped when they were eliminated.
New in this update, you can also aim your weapon without falling while using a Jetpack. There are no extra steps to do this, just aim as normal and then you can precisely zoom in on your target while floating in the air.
Since you can’t see the overheat bars while aiming, listen for the beeping sound of your overheated Jetpack to indicate when you should return to the ground.
If you want to learn more about Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2, check out our guides on character locations, water comms relay locations, cow catchers, battle bus blueprint locations, and how to pass data to a drone, including drone locations, explained.
