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Fortnite just gave the island its first helicopter, and LazarBeam couldn’t wait to crash one.

Epic Games dropped the v12.20 patch on March 17, 2020, and buried inside it was the Choppa — Fortnite Battle Royale’s first dedicated helicopter. Australian YouTuber Lannan Eacott, known to millions as LazarBeam, wasted no time hopping in the cockpit for his video “fortnite added CHOPPERS,” running the new aircraft through its paces alongside his usual squad of content creators. What he found was a vehicle built less for dogfighting and more for chaos — no guns, no missiles, just rotors, a boost button, and four exposed seats begging to get someone eliminated.

• Epic Games added the Choppa helicopter in the v12.20 update on March 17, 2020, spawning on helipads at spy hideouts like The Agency, The Yacht, The Rig, The Shark, The Grotto, and various Shadow Safe Houses.
• The vehicle seats five — one pilot plus four passengers perched on the exterior side ledges — and carries 1,500 base hitpoints.
• Unlike the vaulted X-4 Stormwing biplane, the Choppa has no built-in weapons; offense comes purely from passengers firing their own guns or the pilot ramming structures with the boost function.

A New Way to Move Across the Island

Fortnite hasn’t had a proper airborne transport since the X-4 Stormwing was vaulted back in late 2018, so the Choppa’s arrival marks the first real shakeup to how players get across Chapter 2’s map since that biplane disappeared. Spawning helicopters directly at the game’s spy-themed points of interest signals exactly how Epic wants them used — as a getaway tool or an assault ride for squads storming The Agency or The Rig, not a lone-wolf sniping platform.

The five-seat capacity is the real design hook. A full squad can pile into one Choppa, with the pilot flying while four teammates dangle off the sides, guns out, effectively turning the helicopter into a mobile firing platform even without any weapons mounted to the frame itself.

No Guns, Just Rotors and Nerve

The biggest surprise for anyone who remembered the Stormwing’s mounted machine gun is that the Choppa carries nothing offensive at all. Every kill has to come from a passenger leaning out and shooting, or from the pilot using the boost to physically ram through builds and players. That distinction matters — Epic clearly wanted a transport vehicle with combat potential, not a flying gun platform, and the 1,500 hitpoints suggest they expect it to take a beating from both ground fire and reckless flying.

No mounted weapons, 1,500 hitpoints, and four players hanging off the sides with their own guns — that’s the entire combat design of the Choppa.

LazarBeam Puts the Choppa Through Its Paces

In “fortnite added CHOPPERS,” LazarBeam and his crew treat the helicopter less like a tactical tool and more like a toy built for maximum chaos. His gameplay runs through the basics — piloting across the map, testing how sluggish or nimble the handling feels — before escalating into using the rotors to shred enemy builds and attempting wild passenger-seat eliminations while the chopper banks through the sky. It’s the kind of hands-on breakdown that doubles as both entertainment and a functional preview of how the vehicle actually plays, similar in spirit to how creators dissected new arrivals in New *SEASON 7* TRAILER + COUNTDOWN in FORTNITE!.

That kind of high-ground mobility is exactly what separates Fortnite’s approach to vehicles from other battle royales still leaning on cars and boats — a gap creators covering titles like Call of Duty Warzone is the best Battle Royale have pointed to when comparing traversal options across the genre.

Shifting the Meta at Spy Hideouts

Placing helipads at the spy faction locations wasn’t random — The Agency, The Yacht, The Rig, The Shark, The Grotto, and the Shadow Safe Houses are already some of the most contested landing spots in Chapter 2: Season 2. Giving squads at those POIs an immediate air escape, or an aggressive way to rotate onto a fight, changes how third-partying and end-game rotations play out across those zones.

LazarBeam’s video landed the same day the patch went live, which means his squad was among the first wave of creators actually flying the thing before the wider playerbase had fully worked out its handling quirks. Expect the Choppa to become a fixture of Season 2’s endgame rotations at The Agency and The Rig for weeks to come — assuming nobody rams it into a cliff first.