Fortnite is about so as to add pet-like beauty “Companions” to its battle royale, a sequence of contemporary leaks counsel. Preliminary designs embrace a variety of canines, in addition to a turtle on a skateboard.
Datamined pictures sourced from yesterday’s new Fortnite season replace present what appears to be like to be a golden retriever, a pair of pugs, a robotic canine based mostly on the sport’s iconic Cuddle Staff Chief, and the aforementioned skateboard-wielding aquatic reptile.
Fortnite followers have been conscious of plans by developer Epic Video games to launch pet-like Companions for a while, based mostly on bits of proof dug up and posted on-line from previous datamines. However right now is our first glimpse on the Companions themselves, from what look to be person interface icons for them.
If Fortnite having pets sounds acquainted, nicely, that is as a result of the sport technically has them already. Throughout the early years of Fortnite battle royale, at the least, the sport supplied “Pets” — animated animals — that you just wore as a “backbling”, or basically like a rucksack.
Round a dozen or so of those Pets had been launched, normally inside battle passes, with later designs changing into barely extra elaborate (a floating mind-controlling alien named Uneven is a private fave, alongside a licensed Child Yoda). However newer years have seen Pets left by the wayside, regardless of fan calls for his or her return.
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Now, Epic Video games is believed to be engaged on Companions as a much more advanced model of Pets, with the creatures capable of scamper round in-game close to your participant character. Followers count on that these creatures will likely be seen to you and your squad of allies, although maybe to not enemy gamers — so there isn’t any blowing up of your new turtle buddy available.
Formally, Epic Video games is but to acknowledge Companions as being in improvement, and it is nonetheless unclear if they may arrive this season. Each time they do launch, nonetheless, Companions would be the first new beauty kind launched to Fortnite since November 2024, when the sport launched Kicks, higher referred to as footwear.
Yesterday’s huge Fortnite replace noticed the sport launch a brand new alien bug-infested season for its primary battle royale portion, whereas Fortnite OG shifted into the beloved season the place Kevin the Dice first appeared. Though, as we beforehand reported, unusual issues are occurring in Fortnite OG — the place the timeline seems to be occuring barely otherwise this time.
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