Hot Spots

Hot Spots
Promotional material for the Loot Carrier.

Hot Spots are a Gameplay Mechanic introduced in Season 9. Each match, one to three Named Locations are highlighted in a Golden text color, and contain special Loot Carriers which allows players to gain Uncommon to Legendary loot.

Description

Hot Spots are took the place of Named Locations, indicated by the Golden color text. At these locations, Loot Carriers would spawn, which would give Uncommon to Legendary rarity weapons when destroyed. Hot Spots did not contain any other special features, as all other loot in the area was of standard rarity.

Loot Carriers

Loot Carriers were seen flying around Hot Spots. They were solid objects, and could have been stood on top of by players. When destroyed, either by attacking them with a Harvesting Tool or shooting them with a weapon, they would fall to the ground and drop Uncommon to Legendary Weapons along with two stacks of ammo. Hot Spots had between 12 and 16 Loot Carriers depending on the size of the location.

History

Season 9

• Update v9.10: Introduced Hot Spots and Loot Carriers. They drop Rare to Epic rarity loot.
• Content Update v9.10: Team Rumble now spawns with 4 Hot Spots per match.
• Update v9.20: Changes to the Loot Carrier:
  • Reduced Sniper package availability from 12.5% to 8.45%
  • Reduced Explosive package availability from 12.5% to 7.04%

Season X

• Update v10.00: Removed Hot Spots

Chapter 4: Season 1

• Update v23.00: Reintroduced Hot Spots:
  • The Loot Carrier has a new icon and model.

Chapter 4: Season OG

• Update v27.00: Removed Hot Spots
• Update v27.10: Reintroduced Hot Spots:
  • Reverted to the old model.

Chapter 5: Season 1

• Update v28.00: The Landmark Ship It! Station becomes a Hot Spot.
  • The Loot Carrier has a Holiday theme for Winterfest 2023.

Gallery

Icon for the Loot Carrier

Old Icon for the Loot Carrier

Trivia

• Like Rebooting and Marking, Hot Spots were yet another mechanic taken from Apex Legends, another Battle Royale game which gave Fortnite competition upon its release. Apex Legends has locations in which loot will be much higher rarity, and these are marked with a golden text color on the map.
• Players can stand atop Loot Carriers, with them acting as solid ground. Players will move with the carrier.
• Loot Carriers cannot be marked. Attempting to mark one will simply mark the point in the air.

See Also

• Stark Industries Supply Drone - A drone with the same AI and function as a Loot Carrier, but for distributing Superpowers.