Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 4 New Weapons: Loot Pool, Unvaulted, And Vaulted Items
Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 4 has unleashed a flurry of exciting new locations to explore, mechanics to try out, and items to experiment with. But the main thing you’ll be using in the game’s battle royale experience is the deadly arsenal of weapons, and as usual, this season has changed things up in that department, too. We’ve compiled a list of all of the weapons that have been vaulted this season, as well as a list of which weapons have been unvaulted or freshly added to the game. Here’s a round up of new weapons in Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 4.
New weapons in Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 4
Though we’ll surely see more guns introduced and unvaulted as the season goes on, Chapter 3, Season 4 opens with two new weapons for you to get your hands on:
- EvoChrome Shotgun
- EvoChrome Burst Rifle
Both of these guns are truly unique to the game, as they level up in rarity as you deal damage with them. They’ll start off at Uncommon rarity, but the more you hit your opponents, the better they’ll get–all the way up to Mythic. This is certain to be a high risk, high reward option for competitive players looking to make the most of their arsenal.
Returning and vaulted weapons in Season 4
It’s not all about the new weapons. Like every season of Fortnite, some weapons have been vaulted and others are making their return from previous seasons. Here’s what you need to know about which guns have left the loot pool and which have been unvaulted.
Returning
These are the guns returning from Season 3 and previous seasons.
- Range Assault Rifle
- Hammer Assault Rifle
- Sidearm Pistol
- Rapid Fire SMG
- Suppressed SMG
- Prime Shotgun
- Lever Action Shotgun
- Hunter Bolt-Action Sniper
- Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR)
- Shadow Tracker (Exotic)
- The Dub (Exotic)
- Boom Sniper Rifle (Exotic)
Vaulted
These guns are being vaulted this season, but they’re all likely to return to the loot pool at various times in the future.
- Combat Assault Rifle
- Stinger SMG
- Charge SMG
- Revolver
- Pump Shotgun
- Auto Shotgun
- Two-Shot Shotgun
- Heavy Sniper Rifle
More new loot
In addition to these new and returning offensive weapons, there are a few new loot items you’ll find around the island this season, including Chrome Splash, Port-A-Bunkers, and special vault Keys. You can read more about those items in our Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 4 map changes guide, and find an addition guide on how to find Keys in Fortnite here.
For more on Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 4, here’s everything you need to know about the new season in “Paradise.”
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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code PS5 Preorders Include Prequel Novel While Supplies Last
Spike Chunsoft’s detective adventure game Master Detective Archives: Rain Code is making the jump from Nintendo Switch to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam with a new Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ version on October 1. Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus will include the base game plus all five DLC packs from the Switch version, a new gallery mode, and performance enhancements like quicker load times, upgraded graphics, and 4K support. Preorders for the game are available now in standard and limited editions, and the first printing of the PS5 version comes with a special tie-in novel.
Let’s go over all the versions of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus available for preorder and where you can purchase them.
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus preorder bonus
The first print run of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus on PS5 includes the original novel, How to Be a Master Detective: A Halara Nightmare, which follows one of the protagonists from the game, Halara, on an all-new detective adventure taking place before the storyline in the game. Physical versions of the novel are included with preorders of the standard PS5 and Lucid Noir Limited Editions of the game. Digital PS5 preorders include a download code for the ebook edition of the novel. The book is not included with the PC or Xbox versions.
$60
The Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus standard edition includes the base game, and PS5 copies include a physical edition of How to Be a Master Detective: A Halara Nightmare novel. Only the first printing of the game will come with the book. A digital standard edition is available for PS5, Xbox, and Steam.
Preorders for the physical PS5 edition are currently available at Amazon. We expect it will be available at more retailers soon as well.
$70
A digital deluxe edition is also available for PS5, Xbox, and Steam. This version includes:
- The base game
- “The Book of Death” digital art book
- “Noise of Neon” digital soundtrack
- How to Be a Master Detective: A Halara Nightmare ebook preorder bonus (PS5-only)
Preorders are available now for PS5. Xbox and Steam preorders will also be available ahead of launch.
$100
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus is also available in a PS5-exclusive Lucid Noir Limited Edition that includes:
- The base game
- PlayStation 5 Steelbook case
- 6.5-inch Shinigami plush
- Official Soundtrack
- Collector’s box
- How to Be a Master Detective: A Halara Nightmare novel preorder bonus
Preorders for Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus Lucid Noir Limited Edition available for $100 Amazon, and it’s likely to show up are more retailers in the coming days.
$55.50 (was $60)
If you don’t want to wait for Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus to launch on October 1, you can grab the standard edition of the original Switch release for $55.50 at Amazon right now, which is a slight discount from its standard $60 price point. This version only includes a physical copy of the Nintendo Switch game and lacks the Plus version’s graphical upgrades, performance fixes, and bonus content, but it’s available for those who want to play the game right away.
$110
For the collectors out there, Best Buy still has the Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Mysteriful Limited Edition for Nintendo Switch available for $110. This package includes the base game for Nintendo Switch (meaning none of the Plus version’s content or upgrades are present, nor the PS5-exclusive tie-in novel), and comes with a Steelbook case with unique artwork, a 6.5-inch Shinigami plush, soundtrack, artbook, and collector’s box.
Snag Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Prey And Five More Games For Only $10
Microsoft’s announcement that it’s shutting down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks has been a major bummer for fans of imaginative, interesting games. While it won’t help save Arkane Austin from the ax, Fanatical’s Build Your Own Trinity Bundle – Immortal Edition at least gives you a chance to try Prey if you haven’t, at a serious discount. The bundle also includes a few other standout experiences, including Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and intense souls-like Mortal Shell, and you can snag all of them and more for as little as $1.50 per game.
The Trinity Bundle – Immortal Edition has three different price tiers. If you grab three games, you’ll pay $5, while buying seven games will cost you $10, or $1.43 apiece.
Fanatical Build Your Own Trinity Bundle – Immortal Edition
- Prey
- Fallout 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Valfaris: Mecha Therion
- The Ascent
- Mortal Shell
- Insurmountable
- Iron Harvest
- Northend Tower Defense
- Human Fall Flat
- Journey of Greed
- For the King
- Arcade Paradise
- Encased
- Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
- Black Book
- Arcana Heart 3 Love Max
- Monster Prom
- Hiveswap Friendsim
The Trinity Bundle has a few real standouts in its offering. Prey is a trippy sci-fi story about a space station overrun by aliens, and like other immersive sims, it offers you a bunch of different ways to solve the problems you run into as you explore and try to survive. Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are some great post-apocalyptic RPGs, and if you’ve gotten the bug to explore a nuclear wasteland from Amazon’s acclaimed streaming show adaptation, you’ll want to check them out.
There’s also Mortal Shell, which is a gorgeous but punishing melee combat game with some seriously good boss fights for souls-like fans. Human Fall Flat is a goofy physics-based puzzler that’s often hilarious, and The Ascent is an intense, isometric cyberpunk action-RPG, which you can play alone or cooperatively with up to three other people.
If you’re just in the market for Fallout games, though, you’ve got some alternatives. Where Fanatical’s Trinity Bundle has the standard editions of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, Fanatical has deals on the Game of the Year and Ultimate Editions, respectively. They’re a bit more expensive at $5.79 each, but you’ll also get all the DLC released for both games. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, though, you’ll want to head over to the Prime Gaming hub and claim your free DRM-free GOG key for Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition.
And if you simply want the complete Fallout experience in one place, Fanatical’s Fallout bundle is $25 and comes with every Fallout RPG: Fallout 4: GOTY, Fallout 3: GOTY, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate, Fallout 76, and Fallout Classic Collection (Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics).
Fanatical is also currently running its May Madness sale, which means you have a chance to grab even more discounts on games. For every $12 or more order placed at Fanatical during the sale, you earn a chance to spin a prize wheel as part of May Madness Spin to Win. The wheel includes things like discounts, free games, and other bonuses. It also sports the big Star Prize, the chance to walk off with a Razer Edge cloud-streaming handheld.
Meanwhile, you can grab Fallout 76 on Xbox for $6 at Stack Social, if you’re in the mood to explore the wasteland with friends.
More Fallout deals at Fanatical
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Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Ending Explained
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place “many generations” after the last movie–we’re talking hundreds of years here–and so it gets to establish a new franchise status quo for how things are going on Earth. We learn about the new way of things through the eyes of Noa, a small-town chimp from the “Eagle Clan.” This young ape is thrust into a much larger world than he ever knew existed after a brief encounter with a human leads to an armed group of masked apes invading his village and killing or kidnapping everyone in the name of Caesar.
Noa, left for dead, barely manages to survive and sets out on his rescue mission–and he meets and is forced to team up with an orangutan named Raka, who tells Noa about the real Caesar from the past, and that human from earlier, a young woman named Mae. Mae is a rare human who can talk, it turns out, and her people were also killed by those masked apes.
The bad apes belong to the forces of Proximus Caesar, a would-be king who’s trying to break into an old human vault that he thinks holds the key to further ape evolution–he’s been kidnapping other apes so he can use them to try to force open the massive vault door, but he’s not having any luck on that front. But Mae’s got a big secret that will make her a major wild card during this conflict. But before we go on from here, a warning.
WARNING: The remainder of this article contains many spoilers for the plot of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, including its ending.
For a while, Mae tries to pretend to be a stray who’s out for revenge against Proximus like Noa is, saying that she wants to keep Proximus from getting the tech from the vault because he’s clearly a bad guy who will do bad things with it. But eventually it becomes clear that she has a bigger plan. She, too, wants to get inside this vault, but unlike Proximus she knows exactly what’s in there that she wants, and she knows how to get inside. But she needs the apes’ help to do it, because the path requires some serious climbing that she’s not equipped for on her own.
They succeed, and get into the vault, which has long been abandoned by whoever lived there. As the apes wander about, Mae goes after her target: an encryption key for communication satellites. And then they open the vault door from the inside. Proximus is right there, of course, since his whole army has been parked outside the door for months, and it’s then that Mae enacts the other part of the plan: setting off the explosives on Proximus’s barricades that are holding back the ocean tide, flooding the vault with Proximus, Noa and Noa’s pals inside. They escape through the secret entrance from before, and it’s there, on the edge of a cliff, where Noa and Proximus have their final showdown. Proximus, alone because his forces are still at their camp, delivers another soliloquy about this new age of apes, but Noa and his people aren’t hearing it.
Instead, Noa sings a song. He’s calling to the clan’s eagles, who had followed them here during their captivity–while he didn’t have an eagle of his own, his late father’s eagle has been hanging around keeping an eye on Noa. And it’s the eagles who end up actually defeating Proximus Caesar, knocking him from the cliff to his death.
From there, Noa and Mae part ways, each returning to their respective homes. And it’s here, at the end, where we finally learn what Mae’s deal was–she took the key from the vault and returned it to an ancient satellite facility full of humans, and they used it to bring satellite communications back online. And they quickly make contact with other humans. As Mae had told Noa earlier, what she wanted from the vault would help humanity speak again, in a sense.
This is where the movie ends. It’s a fascinating stopping point. With comms back up to some degree, we’ve got humanity on its first upswing of any kind in a long time, and the death of Proximus Caesar would conversely leave some kind of local power vacuum among the apes–there are likely tons of small villages like Noa’s, but large-scale powers like Proximus’s army would be few and far between.
So what happens now? The remains of human civilization we saw didn’t look like much of a military force, but who knows what kind of fun stuff, or fun people, they’ll gain access to with communications satellites operating again. The big question here is a topic that is broached repeatedly across the course of the movie: Could the apes and the humans just live together in peace? Maybe, but by the end of the film, Mae has held her cards so close to the vest that Noa doesn’t trust her–she didn’t trust Noa enough to keep him in the loop, and was clearly content to sacrifice him when she flooded the vault. This whole adventure was not the best basis for a lasting peace.
That said, this ending doesn’t really point to or set up any specific future storylines. It’s the sort of ending that allows for a lot of new possibilities without forcing them to go in any particular direction with the next one. The whole world is open here. Just keep in mind that we’re probably not heading toward a world in which human civilization makes a lasting comeback–though we should note that the original film series ended with an ape-human peace treaty in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, so who really knows where this thing will end up?
Does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes have a post-credits scene?
There are no bonus scenes after or during the credits. Once the credits start rolling on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the movie is done, and there’s no remaining content to see. But there’s nothing wrong with sitting through the credits as a little gesture of appreciation for all the hard work that was required to bring this CGI extravaganza to life.
DC’s New Pocketable Graphic Novels Are Only $10 Each – Watchmen, Batman, Superman, And More
You’ve got a trip coming up, one that’s estimated to be just long enough to enjoy a comic book/graphic novel in. While a trade paperback isn’t difficult to carry around, it can be a tad cumbersome, and that’s where this new line of “Compact Comics” comes in. Published by DC Comics, these are 5.5″ x 8.5″ paperbacks–about the size of a mass market paperback novel–that pull some of the best and most iconic stories from the publisher’s vast library.
DC originally unveiled the Compact Comics line last year, and the first batch of pocketable graphic novels, Watchmen and Batman: The Court of Owls, will finally hit shelves in a few weeks. Best of all, each book retails for only $10, which makes it easier to not worry about bending or tearing pages on the go. Each book is friendly to first-time readers, as they all tell self-contained stories. All 10 of the graphic novels in DC’s Compact Comics series for 2024 are available to preorder now at Amazon.
DC Compact Comics – $10 each
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All-Star Superman is still widely regarded as one of the greatest Superman sagas of all time, and follows the Man of Steel on his final adventures after he becomes exposed to a lethal amount of solar radiation. Frank Quitely’s art is incredible, while Grant Morrison’s story is full of action, thrills, and surprises. For fans of the Caped Crusader, Batman: The Court of Owls sees the vigilante run into the infamous cabal of super-rich socialites and their enforcers, the Talons. This was the storyline that kicked off the New 52 era of Batman, and featured sharp art from Greg Capullo.
Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell shines a spotlight on rookie Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein, who has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. After the first recorded murder in 500 years happens in the crime-free city, it’s up to Sojourner to solve this sci-fi mystery. Going from the stars to the streets, Joker is a gritty look at Batman’s infamous nemesis. Produced by the dream team of Lee Bermejo and Brian Azzarello, this is a street-level crime story starring the unpredictable clown prince of crime as he causes chaos in Gotham.
Other notable Compact Comics include a few evergreen classics, like Watchmen, Batman: Hush, and Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman.
DC is releasing two Compact Comics each month from June to October.
Persona 3 Reload Collection’s Edition Gets Huge Price Cut At Amazon
Persona fans have been eating well lately, and if you’re looking to get your hands on a limited edition of one of the best games in the series, you can check out this Persona 3 Reload deal at Amazon. Normally $200, the Persona 3 Reload Aigis Edition (collector’s edition) for Xbox is down to $144, but you won’t want to wait too long because this special is for a limited time only–Amazon is using its Lightning Deal percent-claimed meter. While the Amazon listing only mentions Xbox Series X, this is one of the many Xbox games that comes with both the Series X and Xbox One versions of the game.
Persona 3 Reload’s collector’s edition comes with the base game, an art book, the Persona 3 Reload soundtrack on CD across two discs, a DLC voucher for extra in-game goodies, and most importantly of all, a collectible figure of Aigis. An Anti-Shadow suppression weapon–and seemingly the last one in existence–this powerful machine gradually awakens to human emotions throughout the course of the game.
While this deal is only relevant to Xbox owners–unless you really want the Aigis statue and art book for your collection, PS5 owners can still grab the base game for $50 right now. Other Persona deals to look out for include the Persona 5 Royal: 1 More Edition over at the Amazon-affiliated site Woot, which is discounted to $50 for the PS5 version and $70 for the Switch version. This one has some nice extras in addition to the game and a steelbook case. You’ll get an art frame inspired by Justine’s Le Grimoire clipboard, Phantom Thieves art prints, a briefcase bag, a full arcana tarot card deck, and a nice treasure box to keep everything stored in. That’s a whole lot of stuff for only $50, so even those who already own Persona 5 Royal may want to consider it.
Persona 5 Royal: 1-More Edition
This is considerably cheaper than the Amazon listings, but in case it’s sold out on Woot, you can grab them there for $109 (PS5) and $90 (Switch).
Dead By Deadlight Is Collaborating With Dungeons & Dragons
Behavior Interactive and 505 Games, the team and publishers behind the asymmetrical horror game Dead by Daylight, have announced a collaboration with Wizards of the Coast. Though it hasn’t been confirmed, it looks like the team-up will bring one of Dungeons & Dragons’ monsters to Dead by Daylight.
The announcement came from a video posted to the official Dead by Daylight X/Twitter account. The post reads:
“Listen closely to the voice in the darknessā¦”
Although the video may be short, it appears that the monster showcased may either be a Spectator, a D&D monster that also appeared in Baldur’s Gate 3, or even a Beholder a monster that’s featured in the D&D Lego set. At the end of the video, it was revealed that more information will be available next week on May 14.
That wasn’t the only thing Dead by Daylight announced today because the May Developer Update is now in the works. According to a Twitter/X post, the latest update aims to fix “balance changes and quality of life improvements that we’ll be testing in the 8.0.0 PTB.” Some of these changes will affect killers such as The Good Guy, The Cannibal, and more.