Fortnite patch v7.30 has arrived and brought with it a change that’s sure to cause a fair bit of controversy: the bolt-action sniper, one of the game’s oldest guns, has been removed — for now.

Fortnite probably didn’t need another shotgun ... and it even unvaulted the Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle. The new shotgun is called the Tactical Shotgun, and it looks a little bit like an upgraded ...

A majority of Fortnite Battle Royale players ... highlighted by several notable weapons being vaulted—bolt-action sniper, heavy shotgun, standard SMG and the remaining burst assault rifles ...

with the standard Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle’s Rare, Epic, and Legendary variants returning to the game to replace then. Finally, one of the notable gameplay improvements in Fortnite’s 9.40 ...

Fortnite: Battle ... render a fort basically useless. The heavy sniper rifle needs something to bring it back down to earth, and as with the bolt-action Epic is choosing a long reload time to ...

New weapons are (always) on their way to Fortnite ... The Heavy Sniper Rifle, as the weapon seems to be called, is a “powerful and accurate rifle with a bolt-action mechanism with an extremely ...

according to a new item entry data mined by Fortnite hub Storm Shield One. The "heavy sniper rifle" is described as a slow, bolt-action weapon that can "pierce through the first wall it hits." ...