Last week, developer Epic Games added a new piece of extraterrestrial technology, Alien Nanites, toFortnite. These unique items give players the ability to create low-gravity fields, and that is exactly what they will need to do in order to complete one of the Season 7 Week 6 Epic Quests. Indeed, there is a new challenge that instructsFortnitefans to deploy Alien Nanites anywhere other than Holly Hatchery, and this guide contains an easy method for getting that done.
Before getting into details on how to quickly complete this challenge, it is worth mentioning that some players are currently reporting that thedeploy Alien Nanites quest is not working. More specifically, these fans indicate that they are not receiving credit for the Nanites that they throw, making it impossible for them to finish the task. Fortunately, there are a couple of workarounds that players that are experiencing this glitch can try.
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The first potential fix is to throw the Alien Nanites directly down at the character’s feet, and the other is to repeatedly press the throw button to deploy several of the items in rapid succession. Indeed, someFortnitefansare reportedly finding success with these two methods, and stuck players may want to pursue both of them before giving up on the challenge altogether. That said, these approaches do not seem to be entirely consistent, and fans should not be extremely surprised if neither work for them.
With that established, the easiest way to approach the “deploy Alien Nanites anywhere other than Holly Hatchery” challenge is toget abducted by the alien mothership inFortnite. To do this, players should stay in the vicinity of an Abductor, which will appear as a silver octagon on the map, until it grabs them with its tractor beam. Once onboard the colossal craft, fans should simply complete the low-gravity minigame in order to gain access to one of the mothership’s vaults.
In these vaults, players will encounter quite a number of chests, and they are great places tofind Alien Nanites inFortnite. After obtaining several Nanites from these chests, fans should feel free to deploy them in the same way that they would throw a grenade, and three is enough to complete the challenge and claim the associated reward. For full clarity, that reward is 30,000 XP, which will be very useful to those fans that still trying to accumulate Battle Stars in Season 7.
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