Fortnite is launching a fourth battle royale mode with its June 18 update–Blitz Royale, a smaller scale model of BR with 32 gamers and rounds meant to final 5 minutes or much less. Whereas Epic Video games is pushing Blitz Royale as being geared towards cellular gamers, the mode is playable on each platform Fortnite works on. Blitz Royale is accessible in solos and four-players squads, and is zero construct solely.
So how does it work? Properly, it is a no-builds model of battle royale on a a lot smaller map than the primary Fortnite island. However this is not a tiny model of standard Fortnite Battle Royale. All gamers will begin every match with a boon and/or weapon–everybody in a given spherical will get the identical item–and as they survive and eradicate enemy gamers, they’re going to enhance their Blitz Degree, which instantly grants extra weapons and equipment at every degree.
The brand new mode is bringing some free cosmetics with it, together with a brand new pores and skin, the Blitz Knight. To unlock the Blitz Knight, you will have to both achieve 15 ranges as soon as Blitz Royale goes dwell, or place within the high ten in 20 totally different Blitz rounds. There’s additionally, after all, a novel victory umbrella glider, the Blitz Brella, which you can earn by successful three Blitz matches.
Blitz Royale will not be a everlasting mode, at the least not but. Initially, the mode is ready to final only for the following 4 weeks, and can go away on July 15. Although it is clear that Epic would love for Blitz Royale to stay round, they’re going to presumably need to see each how effectively it does and the way it impacts the participant populations of the prevailing modes earlier than committing long run.
Whereas it will solely stick round for 4 weeks, every of these weeks can have a wildly totally different theme and loot pool. After launch week, Blitz Royale might be themed after Avatar: The Final Airbender for Week 2, which is able to carry again these bending scrolls that had been launched in Chapter 5 Season 2. Week 3 might be stuffed with weapons from the primary Battle Royale mode that had been dropped from bosses, like Thorne’s Vampiric Blade, and the TMNT-themed Week 4 might be all about punching of us, with a loot pool stuffed with melee weapons.
It is a large week for Fortnite. Along with Blitz Royale, the June 18 replace features a new Fortnite Pageant Season with Bruno Mars headlining, and a everlasting new co-op Lego mode.