Fortnite: the water drops again; Burning Sands and The Shark return

Written by: Chris Watson

July 30, 2020

Updated on July 30, 2020

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A new change in the water level of Fortnite Island brings Burning Sands and The Shark back. Platform Patituerta almost disappears.

The water level on Fortnite Island dropped again at 09:00 CEST on Thursday, July 30. As it has happened previously, this drop in the level of the waters brought with it certain changes and novelties to the island. We tell you everything you need to know about this new change in the scenario of Season 3 of the Fortnite Battle Pass Chapter 2:

Fortnite: the water level drops; Burning Sands Returns

With the new drop in water level on the island, Arenas Ardientes has returned to the state it had during the previous season. In addition, El Tiburón is back, although, as usual, this area is destroyed after being flooded for so long. Below we leave you a map of how the stage was before 07/27/2020 at 09:00 CEST …

Map of the island before 9AM CEST on July 30, 2020

And, again, below we leave you a map with how the island has been after this new drop in water level, at 09:00 CEST on 07/27/2020:

Island map after 9AM CEST on July 30, 2020

The most significant changes of this new modification of the scenario are, as we say, the return of Burning Sands and The Shark. As if that were not enough, La Fortilla continues to move south, and Plataforma Patituerta has been reduced to a single island, of the three islets that originally existed. All of this we understand has been brought about by the movement of the changing tides and waters around the massive Fortnite Battle Royale Island.

The most important changes:

* Burning Sands returns to its original state
* The Shark returns almost completely
* La Fortilla moves south
* Platform Patituerta is reduced to a single island # FortniteChapter2 pic.twitter.com/aJ4F3jdlw6

– Rubén Martínez (@ruvenmb) July 30, 2020

According to FortniteGLAT on Twitter, a well-known dataminer from Latin America, we would have the next drop in water level on Saturday, August 1, we understand that also at 09:00 CEST:

The last leg will be August 1 at 3am ET!

– We could receive Atlantis. # Fortnite pic.twitter.com/QTay8q05Ak

– Fortnite LAT – News and Leaks! (@FortniteGLAT) July 30, 2020

As always, at Meristation we will keep an eye on the changes and news that are on stage, and we will inform you about them.

Sources: Twitter / FortniteGLAT, Fortnite Battle Royale, own elaboration