‘Fortnite’ Season 8, Week 8 Cheat Sheet And Challenge Guide

We’re eight weeks into Season 8 in Fortnite: Battle Royale, and things are finally getting going. Ruin is here, promising fiery death for untold portions of the map, and there’s a mysterious rune that we can move around the island by whacking at it. It all seems to have something to do with the massive hatch/UFO or what have you that’s shown up in the bottom of Loot Lake. We will see the return of the Cube? I hope not: I’m barely over the case of cube fatigue I developed last year.

But for anyone looking up to grind the battle pass, the name of the game remains the same: challenges. It’s a long way up to that Tier 100 Luxe skin at the top of the game, and you’re running out of time in which to get it. Lucky or you, the week 8 challenges are actually fun: we’ve got giant telephones that have shown up on the map, we’ve got a good old-fashioned hidden object hunt, and we’ve even got a treasure map of the kind that had disappeared back in Season 6. If you’re trying to get these done as quickly as possible, we’ve got a handy cheat sheet for you:

Note that I didn’t put vending machines on there, because that quickly makes this a map of vending machines and nothing else: there are enough that you should have no problem finding one.

If you want more specific instructions on the treasure map signpost–it can be a bit tricky–Erik Kain has them here.

That should get all of the location-based challenges done for you. Some of the other ones won’t be quite as easy to do just by galivanting all over the map, but luckily those aren’t that bad either: eliminating opponents at a distance of 50m or more is super simple with Air Royale currently enabled, and doing damage with a balloon attached should be fairly straightforward if you boot up a respawn-enabled mode like Food Fight or Team Rumble.

You need 55 challenges over the course of Season 8 in order to unlock the Ruin skin. Some of these weeks have been a little rougher for putting up numbers, but you shouldn’t have too much trouble completing this week. We’ll have two more weeks of challenges before the Season is up, so that makes for 70 challenges in total: enough wiggle room to skip two weeks.

I expect something big to get going in this game next week: we haven’t had much in the way of…