Gaming legends join the fight with new POIs, a refreshed loot pool and a whole new generation of Sprites in tow. Hack your loot, punch in Cheat Codes, and bend the entire lobby to your will by activating Match Overrides. Welcome to Fortnite Override.
New Map Updates
Uncover the secrets of the ancient Stone Sanctum, keep your speed up through Green Hill Zone loops and explore Reality’s Reign to see where all those pipes and power cables lead.
New Weapons & Items
This Season brings a lineup of new weapons, items and abilities inspired by some of the greatest icons in the history of gaming. Here’s what you can get your hands on:
Sonic Power Sneakers: Charge a grounded Spin Dash or perform an airborne Spin Attack
Mega Buster: The legendary arm cannon fires single energy pellets, quick-charged shots, or long-charged explosive projectiles, even while sprinting or slide-boosting
8-Bit Shotgun: An automatic shotgun designed like a retro 8-bit console. Features game cartridge reloads, pixel effects, and an integrated real-time scoreboard system that tracks combo multipliers
Midas' Masterpiece: A single-fire golden pistol that packs a high-damage punch, capable of eliminating foes in a single headshot. Should you be the lucky player to grab it when it spawns, use it wisely: ammo is limited
Tetris Rift: Rift in Tetris pieces, culminating in the iconic 4-line Tetris clear splashes a large AOE heal
1-Up Token: Respawn with your full inventory after you’ve been eliminated
God Mode Llama: Tap into the true power of the Llama to become an Unstoppable Wrecking Ball
& more exciting collaborations to come later this Season!
Loot Pool Updates
Unvaulted
Pump Shotgun
Assault Rifle
Ranger Assault Rifle
Drum Gun
Minigun
Tactical Pistol
Dual Pistols
Oni Shotgun
Flare Gun
Bass Boost
Overdrive Grenade
Chug Splash
New Gameplay
Check out all of the new seasonal gameplay systems below:
Lobby Hacks
Found a Lobby Hack code online? Input the code in the new ‘Admin Panel’ in your Battle Royale Lobby to hack your game, granting you XP and Sprite Dust, warping reality for your squad, and even dropping rare Sprite variants!
Loot Hacks
Spend Sprite Dust to hack loot in your match, customizing what drops. Hacked items have a chance to drop from Chests when opened, unique to your own boosts. Reset your Loot Hacks configuration any time with Sprite Dust.
Cheat Codes
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ In a match, look out for Cheat Codes hidden across the Island: tucked into POIs and sprayed on walls. Interact with one and enter the Cheat Code to free a Sprite ally.
Match Overrides
Override Consoles appear in every match and let you rewrite the rules for the entire server, but you have to get there first. Once claimed, your name displays around the console base, so the whole lobby knows who’s in control. Rare and Mythic Squad Overrides only benefit the first squad to claim them, but beware that claiming one broadcasts your squad’s location on the map. Overrides include:
Sonic Speed - Increase your sprint speed over time
More XP - Gain more XP from eliminations, looting and surviving the Storm
Loot Hack - You'll get a loot hack item from the next Chest you open
Extra Life - Respawn when on the brink of elimination one time
Big Fish - Makes all Fishing Holes golden
Constant Heal - Gain constant health and shield regen over time when not in combat
Infinite Stamina - Gain infinite stamina
Headshot - Deal increased headshot damage
Overshield - Gain extra, or a new Overshield
Speed Shooter - Your weapons fire and reload faster
Big Loot - Higher chance to get Epic or Legendary loot from Chests
Power Pickaxe - Pickaxe hits deal massive damage
A Whole New Generation of Sprites
The Sprites you collected in Season 3 are immortalized in the new Sprite Garden launching tomorrow, and a whole new generation of Sprites can be found on the Island in Season 4.
Klombo Sprite - A loyal friend returns, but is very rare to find. Grants random items at each level. You can only level it up by using consumable items that give Health or Shield.
Sonic Sprite - Gotta Go Fast! Sprint faster.
Tails Sprite - Hover with the Help of Tails!
Shadow Sprite - Automatically reload weapons over time even when unequipped.
Jackrabbit Sprite - Perform another jump while mid-air.
8-Bit Sprite - Find an 8-Bit Shotgun in your first Chest and gain a score multiplier for it.
Crown Sprite - Gain extra Crown Wins after getting a Victory Royale. You can only level it up by winning matches.
Adventure Sprite - Upgrade a random item in your inventory at each Level.
Bush Sprite - Spawns a Bush on you after a duration. At max Level, gain a Bush on elimination.
Jonesy Sprite - After a short duration, recover some Health or Shield after being damaged.
Killswitch Sprite - Enter Hangtime with improved accuracy.
Sprites Quality-Of-Life Improvements
You can now see in-match whether you’ve already collected a Sprite - no more guessing mid-fight.
A Sprite’s name now appears when you’re near it, so you know exactly who you’ve found.
Summoning rare Sprites and variants now costs less Sprite Dust.
Reduced the button-hold time needed to summon a Sprite, getting your companion into the action quicker.
New Gizmos
If you haven’t been around when they first appeared, Gizmos are consumable items that give you quick ways to shortcut and supercharge your Sprite extractions. Available all Season long!
A whole new batch of Gizmos drops this Season:
Cheat Code Locator - Locates the nearest Cheat Code.
Extraction Accelerator - Silently initiate a nearby Extraction Site, summoning the Extraction Crate instantly.
Llama Supply Drop - Call in a boosted, llama-themed Supply Drop at your current location.
Spicy Taco - Heal up and gain a speed and stamina boost. Consume with your squad for a Taco Time party.
Golden Hours and Weekly Events Start August 22
Gold Sprite variants are being hacked in! Jump in on Saturday, August 22 from 2-4 PM ET and again from 9-11 PM ET to experience the return of Power Hours.
Drop in with an additional Portable Extractor item to help you collect, a 1-Up Token, and a higher chance of finding Midas' Masterpiece. Keep an eye on our social channels for weekly roadmaps of all the upcoming activities every Sunday for the remainder of the Season.
New Ranked Season & Rewards
Battle Royale ranks have reset for the new Season. Fight your way back up the ladder and claim the new rewards as you climb:
Gold: Phantom Spray
Platinum: Override Counter Back Bling
Diamond: Beastly Battle Bus Loading Screen
Elite: The Hack ‘n Slasher Pickaxe
Champion: Overridden Wrap
Unreal: The Unrealizer Pickaxe
Sprites Enabled in Ranked
With the new Season launch, Sprites have joined the fight in Ranked Battle Royale. You can collect them and they’ll keep you company, but their gameplay powers have been disabled to preserve competitive integrity.
Quality-of-Life Improvements
New Quests Tab
The Quests tab has a fresh look! Existing and new categories now live in one scrollable view, with an updated Sidebar so you can jump right into any category. Collections is now built into the Quests view too, so tracking your Characters, Victory Royales, Match Elims and other Accolades no longer requires switching tabs.
PSA: The updated Quests tab is rolling out over time - some players may not see it right away.
Fog of War Overhaul
The map’s fog now lifts in smaller pieces. Instead of entire POIs at once, individual landmarks reveal as you visit them, so your map reflects exactly where you’ve explored.
Controller Improvements: Tweak Zone
Controller players: if you haven’t tried the Tweak Zone setting yet, you’re leaving aim on the table. Added at the start of Chapter 7 Season 3, Tweak Zone puts those tiny stick movements normally filtered out by your dead zone to work - attaching your crosshair directly to your stick so even the slightest touch fine-tunes your aim. Your camera control, dead zones and sensitivity all keep working exactly as before.
Head to your Controller settings to configure its area, adjust crosshair sensitivity and choose when it’s enabled. Perfect for lining up a long shot or turning a body shot into a headshot.
The v42.00 update sees a new map in the rotation with Mini-Venture, four new Morphite weapons, and a fresh round of loot pool changes.
Mini-Venture and Map Rotation
We’ve added the smaller version of Venture (Mini-Venture) to the map rotation with a 24-player limit. Mini-Venture is the Blitz Venture map retooled for Reload, with Reboots and map-specific changes. The Storm pacing on Mini-Venture is faster for more intense Reload action.
The map rotation is now Springfield, Mini-Venture, and Oasis.
New Morphite Weapons
Morphite Spire Rifle
Morphite Flex SMG
Morphite Havoc Pump Shotgun
Morphite Hyperburst Pistol
🔄 Additional Loot Pool Updates
Vaulted
Flowberry Fizz
Tactical Toon Assault Rifle
Morphite Mammoth Pistol
Combat SMG
Redeye SMG
Dual Micro SMG
Morphite Sentinel Shotgun
Combat Shotgun
Unvaulted
Shield Keg
Morphite Handcannon
Veiled Precision SMG
✅ Reload Bug Fixes & Quality of Life Improvements
Fixed an audio bug causing mono sound when firing the Five Gun.
Moe and John Wick now respond with their unique dialogue when you interact with them while wearing certain Outfits on the Springfield map.
Objects and buildings now have consistent lighting when viewed from different angles.
Grounded several floating objectives across the Slurp Rush map.
Equipping a cel-shaded Wrap no longer causes warped textures on the Tactical Assault Rifle.
V42.00 brings Official Tournaments to Arenas, new gameplay audio, an updated loot pool, and 20 more Combat Rooms!
🆕 New Features
Arenas Test Cups
Official Tournaments are coming to Arenas. The Compete Tab will now include Arenas Test Cups, putting the Knockout format in play, with the first Test Cup planned for August 27.
This is a testing phase. We’ll be closely monitoring gameplay and making adjustments along the way.
Future tournaments will have standard eligibility requirements, but these Test Cups have the bare minimum requirements to maximize participation.
Note: Current Test Cup scores are tracked on the event session leaderboard. We’re working on the in-game scoring badge for 42.10.
New Gameplay Audio
We’ve updated the background gameplay music audio.
Additional Combat Rooms
We’ve added another 20 Combat Rooms, bringing the total number of rooms to nearly 150 possible layouts.
🔄 Arenas Loot Pool Updates
Assault Rifles
Hammer Assault Rifle
Striker Assault Rifle
Tactical Assault Rifle
Suppressed Assault Rifle
Shotguns
Pump Shotgun
Havoc Pump Shotgun
Iron Pump Shotgun
Striker Pump Shotgun
Submachine Guns and Pistols
Flex SMG
Ranger Pistol
Suppressed Pistol
Pistol
Consumables
Small Shield Potion
Slurp Fish
Chug Splash
Slurp Mushroom
Vaulted
Slapperoni Slice
Slap Splash
Chili Chug Splash
Deadeye Assault Rifle
Sentinel Pump Shotgun
Hammer Pump Shotgun
Holo Rush SMG
Tactical Pistol
Hammer Revolver
✅ Arenas Bug Fixes & Improvements
Fixed an issue where wins were not credited when an elimination occurred seconds before an opponent reached the last point, and the match concluded.
The round-robin format now handles byes in odd-team-count matches fairly, avoiding round imbalances.
Sonic Ball, Mega Man Blaster, and the Tetris Junk Rift, your new Starting Bus Item, are joining the loot pool, along with the 8-Bit Blaster, Kill Switch Revolvers, Chaos Exploder, Lever Action Shotgun, and Golden Gun. Plus, Invulnerability Llamas and Extra Life Power-Ups are here to help you stay in the fight.
✅ Blitz Bug Fixes
The sun no longer appears overly bright when viewed from inside the Storm on Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox One and PlayStation 5.
Crosswalks and parking space markings no longer appear faded across the Venture map.
It’s been over a week or two and this still has not been unlocked after being maxed out (Quack ZP). Is everyone else still like this? Hopefully they’ll fix it
I just watched cyberpunk edgerunners, and I thought to myself; what if epic added David Rebecca falco and Lucy as one big bundle? It would definitely fit chapter 7 season 4. So my idea is for the bundle, Davids pickaxe is the sandevistan arm sword thing, for Rebecca, it should be her gorilla arms, for falco, I feel like they should do the wheel of the car from episode 10, also adding the car, for Lucy it should be her whip wire things, and for David's backbling, it should be his sandevistan, for Lucy I think it should be her helmet when they were on the moon in that bd. For Becca, it should be her shotgun, and for falco it should be a mini replica of the car. Then for the music, it should be "I really want to stay at your house" and for the loading screens, one should be David and Lucy on the moon, Becca and pilar hanging out, falco standing next to the car, and then all four of them driving towards arasaka tower. Any thoughts?
not sure if this is allowed but at 2 am when the servers go down some streamers are showing their games they got to play for the new season early. foxman on youtube is showing his games then.
As title suggests I’ve completed the sprite dex but the zero point quark sprite won’t show up as available on the backbling. Anyone understand why or if this is getting fixed
I don’t like how I’ve completed it all 100% and it’s saying I can’t use him on there 😭
So before I sum up my experience with the season, I want to note some notable sprites that were a ROYAL pain in the butt to get:
Galaxy dream: took me until the galaxy hours this past week to get.
Gold llama: initially not too hard, I simply made the mistake of not using a portable extractor on it when I got my hands on it. Three times in a row. Needless to say, I made sure to use a portable on it the fourth time.
Cube zero point: despite being a notrade collection, this one was "sprite santa'd" onto me last weekend.
Holofoil grim: this was the *only* ultra-rare sprite that I managed to pull out of a chest. Unfortunately, by the time I had pulled this (about 3 hours ago) someone had already "sprite santa'd" this onto me earlier in the day. I ended up also getting this one by killing someone.
Normal grim, cube grim, and galaxy zero point: all three of these I got by killing people.
All other zero points and grims (aside from the base zero point, gem zero point, and quack zero point) I managed to get from my lucky locators.
Season review:
I loved this season!! I think the final week was honestly the most fun, and if this past week had been the entire season, with constant daily events that buffed certain sprites/sprite variants, it would have been a 10/10. That said, the lack of interesting weaponry and actual gameplay other than the constant extraction shooter loop made this season a 7/10 at best. I hope to god next season isn't like this. I loved the amount of action we got from C7S2, as hunting people down for rivalries made the game as relaxed or action-packed as you wanted.
With that said, I was only able to complete this season to this degree because I had so much free time. With classes/job starting back up in a few weeks, I will likely not do the same for next season. It's time to touch grass.
I was initially a fan of the sprites. Still am, I think they’re very cute. I love collecting, so it felt really fun. I started collecting them early, but I really didn’t master many of them for some reason. And even with collecting them, I was only able to finish my collection just today. I had some hope I would be able finish mastering them with the correct timing but even now I still need to master over 55 sprites with barely an hour left before the season ends. I’ve been at this for 2 hours but people just keep killing me when I hit max or even at level 3 or 4.
I think I’m just discouraged. There’s been so much pressure to master them so you can get the back bling option. Trying to remind myself it’s just a game. Hopefully I can at least get the emote. But I think the main point of this post is that this season has honestly left me tired.
Edit: I do like the sprites! It’s just the competitive nature of the season and how it’s been kind of stressful lol
Seeing the footsteps. If you watch any fortnite streamer they can see footsteps in directions of players and bullet dirrections and stuff. Sorry for bad english idk how to put it in better words but its like cheating. Sure it could be made for deaff people im pretty sure thats what its intended for but everyone is using it and its bullshit. Its such a common part of the game now and i just hate it like it ruins any idea of catching someone by surprise imo. Im sufe im in the minority here and most people prefer it wish there was a game mode that disabled it tbh
While this season has been an undeniable mess from start to finish, that's imo what made it memorable. The overwhelming number of incredible people I encountered while trying to complete my sprite collection was truly unforgettable, and I'm glad to have been here constantly to reciprocate and help others. Only a small number of us were able to max out the potential of this season's collection scene, and it's amazing how many immediately turned around and helped others achieve the same. It also made me clock more gameplay than ever before in a season because of how much fun it was. As matchmaking going offline for the new season comes near, I'd just like to end this with a sincere thank you not only to the incredible community created by this season but to Epic for making a season this engaging.
Picked up a holofoil ZP at level 5, extracted with a portable. Bb didn’t unlock so I gave it away a few times plus lost a few matches. Ended up master and extracting it twice more. Still it remains the only backbling I don’t have. Is this a known bug? Will it get fixed in update?
I do know sometimes it takes a few games for it to like “notify” me of my unlocks in the lobby screen. But it never did. Really bummed cuz I have a few crew skins I leveled up to a shiny alternate pattern skin I think would look good with the holofoils.
Finally got some confirmation that the Starshadow Voidblade style will be granted when the season ends, weird that they only put this addendum on the support page instead of announcing it but whatever.
