One of the festive items you can acquire to celebrate Fortnite’s seventh anniversary is Balloons. While soaring through the sky with them can be quite fun, you also need to release or pop Balloons for an essential birthday quest.
There are lots of different ways you can finish this quest and most of them are pretty confusing. You need to work through it if you want to earn all of the available birthday prizes, so here’s how to release or pop balloons in Fortnite.
Release or pop Balloons in Fortnite, explained
To complete the release or pop Balloons quest in Fortnite, you need to have a total of seven Balloons released or popped. There are a few different ways you can finish this task.
- Have seven Balloons released. This is the easiest and most efficient way to complete this task since you can manually release balloons as needed.
- Have seven Balloons popped. If you choose this method, completing this quest may take some time since it’s tougher to pop balloons yourself. You either need to find some enemies to complete this quest or hunt down some decorative Balloons around the island.
- Have a mix of seven Balloons released and popped. You can mix and match between both methods to get this quest done, and if you want to work on it in the background while focusing on other tasks, this is the best option to choose.
Regardless of which method you want to use to finish this task, the first step is to find Balloons.
How to get Balloons in Fortnite
There are two different ways you can acquire Balloons in Fortnite which are the Birthday Medallion and the Balloon consumable item.
- To get Balloons from the Birthday Medallion, you need to find and open a Birthday Present. Once you have the Medallion equipped, you’ll slowly generate Balloons over time.
- To get Balloons from the Balloon consumable item, you have to loot around the map to find them. They can appear as loot in chests, on the ground, and any other looting method you can think of.
Since there’s no way to guarantee you find the Balloons consumable, I recommend trying to get a Birthday Medallion. You also only get 10 Balloons from the consumable while the Medallion continuously generates more, so to ensure you’re able to finish this task, grabbing a Medallion is the best way to go.
How to release Balloons in Fortnite
To release Balloons in Fortnite, you need to have at least one equipped and select the button that appears next to the To release a Balloon option. This button varies by platform and if you’ve changed any of your button settings, but it always displays to your right when you have a Balloon that can be released.
The wording here can make this task a bit confusing as you might think releasing a Balloon refers to blowing up another Balloon to add to your collection. Instead, though, it only means to let one go. The Balloon disappears as soon as you select this option, so make sure you aren’t way up in the sky or you’ll end up falling to your death.
How to pop Balloons in Fortnite
To pop Balloons in Fortnite, you either need to wait for an enemy to shoot one on your back, shoot at an enemy player to pop one of their Balloons, or find a balloon you can break around the map. You’ve got plenty of options if you choose this method.
If you want to wait for an enemy player to pop one of your Balloons, you need to make sure you have some equipped when you’re near them and just wait for them to pop. Try to stay close to the ground with this method to avoid taking fall damage. To pop enemy player Balloons, keep an eye on the sky and quickly shoot at any players you see flying around.
The easiest way to pop Balloons is to hunt down some decorative Balloons around the main POIs, generally the same ones you can visit to eat slices of birthday cake, and pop them using your Pickaxe. There are usually a few of them near the massive cakes, so this is another fairly easy way to tackle this quest.
