The final stage of Fortnite’s new Buccaneer Bounty mini-event has arrived, which asks players to shoot themselves out of a pirate cannon in 5 different matches. Doing this will get you 1000 XP for the season, but also if you combine it with the other three challenges, you will unlock a special emote that has you opening a treasure chest only to get ambushed by an octopus monster. It’s pretty solid.
You only have three more days to complete all these challenges, so you probably want to get it done this weekend before you forget. And if you’re going for this final pirate cannon one, it would help to know where those are, right?
We have already seen a number of different challenges this season involving pirate cannons, including on where you have to do damage to structures after shooting yourself out of them. This time, all you have to do is shoot yourself out of cannons in different matches, which is easier.
There are about 16 or so locations on the map with pirate cannons, some of which contain more than one pirate cannon in a single spot. My internet friend @Fortrisen has probably made the best map of this I’ve seen, which you can check out below:
As you can see, the most cannons are concentrated near the new areas of Lazy Lagoon and the volcano, so if you hot drop there every match you can probably get this done very quickly indeed.
If you still have not done one of the visiting the pirate camps challenges, you can kill two birds with one stone, because all those camps also feature a few pirate cannons. I mean, what’s a pirate camp without a cannon to defend it, right? So with 7 or so pirate camps on the map, those alone should be more than enough to get you the amount of cannons you need to complete this challenge. I think that if one building has 2-3 cannons in it, you can also keep landing there and shooting yourself out of those, and it will count as different cannons, but I need to check. The same goes for the pirate ship docked at the lagoon.
All in all this is not a bad free event where you can rack up a lot of free stuff relatively easily thanks to these challenges that have you checking out the pirate parts of the map finding treasure and placing high in one single match. Easy enough.
Season 8 is still far from over so we may see another event like this still to come. Epic rarely gives out truly free stuff, so it’s always a good idea to get these goodies when they show up. Happy hunting.
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