Landing fast in Fortnite is the first of the advantages we can get in a Battle Royale match. To achieve this, several circumstances must be considered, as we explain below.
If we want to land first
If we want to jump into the town or city just below the bus as soon as it opens its doors, we must dive. In this way, the parachute will open before anyone else and we will be the first to land.
Automatic parachute opening
Our parachute opens automatically when we are a certain number of meters away from touching the ground. Therefore, we must calculate well so that we have several hundred meters of distance to go when the parachute opens automatically.
The parachute will open automatically at a certain distance from Earth
Terrain of the area
We must keep in mind the height of the earth in the place where we are landing. The automatic opening of the parachute occurs at a specific distance but in relation to the land, not the sea. In other words, the parachute will open much sooner if we are diving towards the highest point of a mountain than if we are diving towards the sea.
In the case that we are on flat terrain, we must calculate so that the parachute opens automatically at about 500 meters distance. If the site is also in the path of the bus, we must leave the bus by diving around 900 meters away.
In case there are mountains or plateaus, we can jump out of them so that when the parachute opens, we are practically at the same height of the mountain and we can reach a high point in just a few seconds.
When to dive to reach remote sites
In the case that we want to fall in a place far away from the trajectory of the bus, we recommend you to mark this place on the map and jump at the moment when the distance meters begin to descend slowly or even begin to ascend because the bus would be moving us away from the place we want to get to.
We can indicate on the map where we want to land by tapping the spot with our finger
Of course, to reach distant places, we will have to use the parachute long before it automatically activates, again, calculating so that when there are about 500 meters left (on the flat) the parachute can no longer be removed.
Momentum trick
The moment we dive, our character gets an initial impulse that makes us go a little bit faster forward. Therefore, for long distances, some players are continuously switching between parachute and freefall to take this impulse several times and reach the point a little earlier. In fact, this technique is hardly noticeable, but while we fall, we also have nothing else to do, so we can do it at least as entertainment.
