Fortnite and Netflix are celebrating the launch of the ultimate season of Squid Sport subsequent week by taking up Reload and dropping a pile of Squid Sport-themed skins within the merchandise store. The brand new island, dubbed Squid Grounds, would be the fourth map for Reload, Fortnite’s smaller battle royale mode with automated respawns. It will be the primary time for any of Fortnite’s battle royale modes that a whole map is the product of a collaboration. The Fortnite x Squid Sport get together kicks off Friday, June 27, which can also be when Season 3 of Squid Sport drops on Netflix.
We have no specifics about whether or not the Squid Sport island will change up how the mode works–that tweet asserting it’s the first official particulars we have gotten about Fortnite’s team-up with Squid Sport. It is possible that the brand new map can be based mostly on places from the sequence and can introduce Squid Sport-themed weapons, however we actually do not know a lot.
We do, nonetheless, know what the map will seem like, as a result of the mini-map view has already leaked. However because it would not have labels for its locations of curiosity, it is not very simple to parse what’s on it, or whether or not any of the places are acquainted. We’ll have to attend a bit longer to seek out out what’s up, apparently.
However one different element we do have already got is that we’ll be getting Squid Game skins, presumably within the merchandise store. It seems proper now as if we’ll get 5 male and 5 feminine Fortnite default characters sporting contestant monitor fits, with two of them being new faces–and you’ll select the quantity on the jacket. There will even be a crimson guard pores and skin and a black guard pores and skin, which can allow you to select which icon is on their masks. And as you may see in the important thing artwork above, there additionally seems to be a pores and skin based mostly on the big Crimson Gentle/Inexperienced Gentle animatronic doll.
When the brand new Squid Sport map launches in Fortnite Reload on June 27 it’s going to be the final of Fortnite’s core sport modes to get main love this month. June has already given us new seasons of Battle Royale, Fortnite Festival, Lego Fortnite and Fortnite OG, a complete new mode in Blitz Royale, and a brand new map for Ballistic.