The Fortnite Override map: every POI, and where pros actually land

The Override island, plotted

Every anchor Epic shipped, at its catalog coordinates, sized by how many players land there. Red is new ground, pale is carried over from Season 41, dashed rings are the 10 POIs Override removed — drawn where they used to stand, which is the point: almost all of them have something new on top of them.

Where should you land in Override?

Now the ranking it came from. The ten busiest anchors across 351 Override tournament games:

1. 1The Battlewoods5.54 / game
2. 2Golden Grove5.38 / game
3. 3Lifty Lodge5.26 / game
4. 4Shaken Sanctuary4.67 / game
5. 5WonkeeLand4.10 / game
6. 6Cluster Coast3.93 / game
7. 7Green Hill Zone new3.88 / game
8. 8LAtte Landing3.72 / game
9. 9Heatwave Harbor3.55 / game
10. 10Sunken Shores3.05 / game

Now the part that matters more than the order: the gap between them is small. The busiest anchor on the island pulls 5.54 players a game and the tenth-busiest pulls 3.05 — a spread of 1.82x, in a lobby of about 99. No POI on this island is a safe hole to hide in, and no POI is a bloodbath the others are not. You are not choosing a crowd size, you are choosing a rotation.

So choose on cost — with one honest caveat about what “cost” means here. Median air time is measured across 351 Override tournament games and 10 different bus lines, so it is an average price, not tonight's price: the bus decides which anchors are cheap in any given game. It is also self-selected — it measures how long the people who chose that anchor spent in the air, and the players who flew 54.8 s to Birder's Beach were the ones for whom that flight was worth it.

Read as an average, it still separates the island. Inside the top ten, The Battlewoods sits 22.7 s off the bus and Cluster Coast 41.3 s — a 18.6-second gap in the typical game, and over a season those seconds are loot you either got or did not. The quickest ground on the whole island is Reality's Reign at 21.1 s. When the bus favours your spot, take it — the point is that two anchors six places apart in the ranking are not the same purchase.

Then weight it with zone history, because Override kept most of the ground the storm liked. The Battlewoods — currently first by contest — was the nearest POI to 9 of 24 endgames across all 24 FNCS Major 2 Grand Finals games in our parses, with the cheapest average rotation to the final circle on the island at 0.56 km, roughly 2.5x cheaper than the most expensive address. The full zone audit is here. That is last season's island and Override's zones are their own question — but the pros have gone straight back to that address, and it is the strongest prior on the board until Override's own endgames say otherwise.

Was Green Hill Zone really the hottest drop in Override?

No — and this is the one place where our data flatly contradicts the day-one consensus. Every launch-week read had Green Hill Zone as the most contested drop on the island. In 351 Override tournament games it ranks seventh of 39 anchors: 1,361 landings, 3.88 players a game, 3.9% of the lobby. The Battlewoods took 1,946.

The consensus was not hallucinating, though — it was measuring the wrong pool. Green Hill Zone is the busiest of the 18 anchors that did not exist last season. If your sample is public lobbies in launch week, the new place with the Sonic branding is where the cameras and the creators are. Competitive players had a different question — where does the zone go, and what does the rotation cost — and they answered it with the addresses they already knew.

What's new on the Override map?

12 new names across 18 new map anchors — the gap is Override Console, which is stamped on the island seven separate times. The new names: Arcade, Barncade, Blinky Island, Geno's Machine, Green Hill Zone, Mega Maze, Override Console, Pac-Man Island, Pinky Island, Pixel Polys, Reality's Reign, Stone Sanctum. Between them the 18 new anchors take 33.5% of the lobby — a third of every drop in the corpus lands on ground that did not exist a week ago.

One name distorts the ranked table badly enough to be worth stating on its own: Override Console appears seven times, and no single one of those seven cracks the top ten. Together they take 3,608 landings — 10.28 players a game, 10.4% of the lobby, more than any single POI on the island. The most landed-on named thing in Override is the Override Console; it is just never in the same place twice.

What did not change is just as useful: all 21 carried anchors sit on the exact coordinates they held last season — every one of them, to the metre. Bus lines and rotation distances into those POIs carry straight over from Season 41.

One correction worth making loudly, because a lot of launch coverage got it wrong: there is no POI or landmark called “The Spire” in Override. Epic's shipped catalog puts Geno's Machine at the island's centre, on The Zero Point's exact former coordinates. It takes 1.99 players a game and is one of the quickest anchors on the map to reach at 21.4 s off the bus.

Which POIs were removed in Override?

10 names left the catalog — more than the “three POIs gone” that circulated at launch, because five of them are the Collider Corridor landmarks nobody counted. But none of that ground vanished. Diffing Epic's two catalogs by coordinate rather than by name, every removed POI has a new anchor near its old address — the furthest any of them sits from its replacement is 200 m — and 5 of the 10 sit at identical coordinates. Override renamed more of this island than it rebuilt.

Derived by diffing Epic's C7S3 Ground Rush · Shattered Coast and C7S4 Override POI catalogs on coordinates. Endgame notes come from Elite's parses of all 24 FNCS Major 2 Grand Finals games. Scroll the table sideways on a phone.

Every POI on the Override map, ranked by contest

All 39 anchors Epic shipped, with what 351 Override tournament games actually did with them. Sorted by landings; tap any column header to re-sort.

What this data does not tell you yet

Three limits, stated plainly, because a number without its scope is worse than no number.

• It is EU and NAC, and one event.

  351 Override tournament games from Performance Evaluation (EU 164, NAC 187). One event is one meta: a Cash Cup field and a Grand Finals field do not drop the same way, and this page updates the moment the next ingest lands. Nothing here is presented as a global truth.

• Landings are measured. Individual landing spots mostly are not, yet.

  The spot library was rebuilt from zero for Override — carried POIs got no head start, because a Season 41 landing object is a claim about Season 41 geometry. It publishes an object only once the same player takes the same object across four or more games, and it now holds 213 of them. Two of the 39 anchors still read “none yet” in the pins column, including The Battlewoods — the busiest ground on the island, where the crowd is real but nobody has settled on the same object yet. That is the four-game rule holding, not the tool failing — we would rather publish a POI-level truth than invent an object-level one.

• Median air time is an average price, not a controllable one.

  It is measured across 10 bus lines and is self-selected: it records what the people who chose an anchor actually spent, not what that anchor costs you on the line you drew tonight. Use it to compare addresses over a season, never to bank a specific number of seconds in a specific game.

Is the drop calculator updated for Override?

Yes — it is live on Override data. The free Elite drop calculator runs rule version c7s4-override-v1 against a rebuilt Override island: terrain re-derived from this season's replays to a median heightfield error of 0.43 m (n=1,794), 10 measured bus lines, and a spot library of 141 confident plus 72 beta landing objects. That 0.43 m is measured on games the terrain fit never saw. There is a harder test in the same artifact, and it is only fair to quote it: withhold the surrounding 96 m of ground as well and the median error is 2.29 m. The first number is what the calculator faces in practice, because it always has the surrounding terrain; the second is how much of that first number is the neighbours doing the work.

The flight physics were carried forward from Season 41 and re-validated, not refit — which is the harder test. The holdout is seven games the model never saw, split across EU and NAC (Performance Evaluation · Event 1 Round 2) — not the 351 games the landing figures above come from. Across those 690 drops, median air-time error is 0.8 s, 90th-percentile error 2.98 s, with no floor violations. Chapter 7 flight behaviour survived the map rebuild; the ground under it did not, which is why the terrain was redone and the physics were not.

Season 41 tape still has uses, with one caveat: any dossier naming one of the 10 removed POIs is describing ground that now has a different sign on it. Read those for the contest pattern, not for tonight's drop.

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