You just landed in Fragment, looted three buildings, and you’re standing there holding a Devotion and a dream. Meanwhile, the Octane who just kicked your door down is running an EVA-8 with Double Tap Trigger and deleted you before you could even spin up. Sound familiar? Season 29, Overclocked, is still the meta right now, and it just went through a big midseason patch on June 23 that rearranged a good chunk of what used to be true. Respawn moved hop-ups between guns, buffed a couple of pistols, and kept leaning into the fast, aggressive playstyle this season is built around. One heads up before we start: Season 30 launches August 4, 2026, which is only a couple weeks out. So treat this as a snapshot of where Overclocked stands right now, not a permanent ranking. Things are going to get shuffled again soon. Quick note before we get to guns: this season also brought a new legend, Axle, along with two systems called Deathbox Respawns and Chain Healing that let squads recover from a bad fight way faster than before. That’s legend territory, not gun territory, so I’m not going to dig into it here, but it does change how you think about loadouts. If your squad can channel a teammate’s box back to life mid fight, the gun…
