Summary
- Fortnite’s upcoming Blitz Royale is a fast-paced game mode for up to 32 players with rogue-like elements.
- Weekly updates for Blitz Royale may include collaborations with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- LEGO Fortnite Expeditions will also be premiering on June 18 with three new Hero Classes.
Several popular Fortnite leakers have revealed new details about the upcoming game mode Blitz Royale, which is scheduled to make its debut with a major update coming on June 18. Epic Games recently launched Chapter 6 Season 3 of Fortnite, bringing popular DC superheroes like Superman and Robin to the island.
Epic Games recently announced the launch of its upcoming Blitz Royale mode in Fortnite, which will go live on June 18. Blitz Royale is a fast-paced game mode for up to 32 players, and it was specifically designed for mobile. The fresh experience is meant to last for five minutes and is said to contain rogue-like elements. While it was designed for mobile, gamers will be able to access it on all platforms with full crossplay support. Blitz Royale is launching as a full game mode, which means that it’s intended to stick around indefinitely.
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Since the game mode’s announcement, leakers have been revealing new details about what they can expect to see when Blitz Royale launches in earnest. ShiinaBR claimed that the mode will experience major weekly updates during the first month of its release. According to their post, these updates could include collaborations with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Fortnite’s Blitz Royale May Launch With Major Crossovers
In another post on Twitter, HYPEX revealed that Blitz Royale could include Dragon Ball mythic items. Fortnite has collaborated with the popular franchise many times over the years, bringing skins, powers, and locations from the anime into the game.
The leaker Loolo_WRLD claimed that Blitz Royale won’t launch with a ranked mode in Fortnite. While many of Fortnite‘s royale modes do include ranked variants, Epic Games recently shut down the ranked version Fortnite OG Zero Build due to matchmaking health. It’s possible that Epic Games is hoping to avoid a similar issue by only releasing one version of Blitz Royale.
Blitz Royale isn’t the only new game mode coming on June 18, as Epic Games also announced that it will be launching LEGO Fortnite Expeditions on the same day. The new LEGO experience will include three new Hero Classes, which seem to play off of Chapter 6 Season 3’s superhero theme. Leakers have claimed that players will be able to access Expeditions by going to any bus station in LEGO Fortnite Odyssey or LEGO Fortnite Brick Life. With so much content to enjoy and even more just around the corner, many fans are feeling optimistic about the future of Fortnite.
