Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 map and loot pool changes

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3, also known as Runners, is finally here, and has brought new map POIs along with new weapons and items.

Runners features some of the biggest mid-chapter changes that Fortnite has ever seen. Chapter 7 Season 3 will be receiving an entirely new island, and sprites are returning, turning Fortnite into an extraction shooter. That's not all as there are a ton of quality of life changes and additional changes coming mid-season.

Here's everything new in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3, including the map, weapon loot pool, and more.

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Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 map and POIs

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 is receiving an entirely new island called the Shattered Coast, but there are a few similar POIs. Here are all the POIs that can be found on the Shattered Coast:

• Lifty Lodge
• Latte Landing
• Chopped Shop
• The Battlewoods
• Wonkeeland
• Calamari Canyon
• Frosted Flats
• Golden Grove
• Sinister Strip
• Heatwave Harbor
• Shaken Sanctuary
• Sunken Shores
• Cluster Coast

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Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 weapons and items

In Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3, five new weapons are being added to the loot pool:

• Extending Focus Shotgun: Long range shotgun
• Surgical Burst Rifle: Low recoil, burst fire rifle
• Chaos Exploder Rifle: The Dark Voyager's heavy assault rifle that fires explosive cubes
• Lancehead Pistol: John Wick's pistol
• Bank Shot Pistol (coming later in the season): A pistol with ricocheting bullets

The following weapons will be returning to the loot pool:

• Striker Pump
• Maven Auto Shotgun
• Ranger Pistol
• Stinger SMG
• Hunting Rifle
• Chaos Reloader Shotgun

As for items, there are two new movement items:

• Seven Sliders: Slide faster than normal and slow down time when you aim down sights
• Shock Rocks (coming later this season): Allows you to jump three times midair

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What else is new in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3

This season is all about extracting sprites. Sprites were first introduced in Chapter 6 Season 1, and they acted as supportive items. They function a little differently in Chapter 7 Season 3 as you'll now need to take sprites to an extraction site, and safely collect them to use them in future games.

Later on in the season, there will be a small chance that the Battle Bus will return to the map mid-match, allowing players to board it and potentially earn a victory.

For competitive players, there will be new Ranked rewards and a new rank: Unreal. To become Unreal, you'll need to have a skill rating of at least 2,500 and be top 500 on the Unreal Leaderboard at the same time.

Additionally, there are a bunch of quality of life improvements, most notably:

• Audio visualizer update: The audio visualizer will now adjust its transparency based on distance. Noises that are far away will be more transparent, while close sounds will be more opaque.
• Battle Bus ADS: Players can now aim down sights on the battle bus to get a closer look at the map and easily ping drop sites.
• Updated Storm times: Storm circle timings have been adjusted to limit slow endgames, but these changes will not appear in competitive or Ranked modes.

For everything coming to Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3, see Epic's official patch notes here.