Fortnite v42.20 Fortnite Override: Battle Royale Update Notes (Sep 17, 2026): what changed

Kingdom Key: Unleash a flurry of melee combos and call down a shocking bolt on your opponents.

Sea Salt Ice Cream: This salty-sweet treat gives you and nearby teammates a health and shield burst.

Rebecca's Guns: Double the guts and carnage with the dual-wielded Assault Rifle/SMG combo! Track down the Exotic version for ricocheting bullets.

Hyperburst Pistol

Mammoth Pistol

Reaper Sniper Rifle

Deadeye DMR

Flowberry Fizz

Rocket Ram

Recovery (Squad & Match-Wide): Eliminating a player with any weapon drops healing orbs.

Level Up (Squad): Spawns a Mythic Kingdom Key for each squad member at their current location.

Super Shot: While firing bullets, your weapon will occasionally launch a rocket instead. BOOM!

Big Boom: Land from a height with no fall damage, dealing area-of-effect damage to opponents. The longer the drop, the bigger the explosion.

Healing Overdrive: Healing triggers the Overdrive effect. Patch up and get back in the fight faster!

Suppressing Fire: All ranged weapons have increased mag size and infinite ammo.

Health Siphon: Dealing damage restores your health.

Tetris Tower: Climb a tower made of Tetris blocks and claim the reward at the top. These can appear all over the Island, so keep an eye out!

Pond Sprite (#DesignASprite Winner!): Jump shortly after landing to launch a Super Jump - higher and more often with each Sprite Level!

Crash Bandicoot Sprite: Perform a spin attack while midair, damaging and knocking back nearby opponents.

Blinky Sprite: Taking damage cloaks you for a short time, making you harder to spot.

Sprites of any rarity can now be found in any Rare (blue) or Epic (purple) Cheat Code.

Epic Cheat Codes have significantly increased chances of variants and higher-rarity Sprites.

Legendary (orange) Cheat Codes are guaranteed to drop a variant Sprite, with an emphasis on higher-rarity ones.

Completed Sidekick Quests no longer reappear in the Quests tab.

Fixed an issue with the 8-Bit Shotgun shooting through walls when clipped through them.

Ammo spawned from Loot Hack drops no longer needs to be picked up manually.

Reboot Vans now correctly reboot your teammates when the reboot progress completes.

Fixed an issue where players could carry a downed teammate while using Sonic's Power Sneakers' Spin Dash.

Vending Machines now grant Sonic Power Sneakers consistently.

You'll no longer take fall damage when canceling Sonic's Power Sneakers' Spin Dash right before jumping off a slope.

Fixed an issue where other players' Sprites could sometimes be seen through walls.

The Adventure Sprite's effect no longer swaps your equipped item when your inventory is full.

Mega Buster shots now correctly break glass surfaces and display impact effects when firing at water.

Fixed a rare bug where you could damage yourself while disguised as a prop.

The map is now correctly centered while on Starter Island.

Fixed flickering textures along walls at Stone Sanctum.

Fixed a floating patch of grass near Reality's Reign.

Fixed an instance causing the ESP-INIT-001 error to appear when launching the game.

Fixed several crashes that could occur when closing the game.

Dual-wield Pickaxes now consistently trigger Auto Fire with touch input.

Fixed an issue where launching the game with your iOS device muted could leave audio missing even after unmuting.