Fortnite and Netflix are celebrating the launch of the ultimate season of Squid Game subsequent week by taking up Reload and dropping a pile of Squid Game-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 computerized respawns. It’s going to 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 Game get together kicks off Friday, June 27, which can also be when Season 3 of Squid Game drops on Netflix.
We have no specifics about whether or not the Squid Game 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 Game. It is possible that the brand new map will probably be based mostly on places from the sequence and can introduce Squid Game-themed weapons, however we actually do not know a lot.
We do, nonetheless, know what the map will appear like, as a result of the mini-map view has already leaked. However because it does not have labels for its locations of curiosity, it isn’t very straightforward to parse what’s on it, or whether or not any of the places are acquainted. We’ll have to attend slightly 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 carrying contestant observe fits, with two of them being new faces–and you’ll select the quantity on the jacket. There may also be a purple guard pores and skin and a black guard pores and skin, which is able to allow you to select which icon is on their masks. And as you possibly can see in the important thing artwork above, there additionally seems to be a pores and skin based mostly on the large Pink Gentle/Inexperienced Gentle animatronic doll.
When the brand new Squid Game map launches in Fortnite Reload on June 27 it’s going to be the final of Fortnite’s core recreation modes to get main love this month. June has already given us new seasons of Battle Royale, Fortnite Competition, Lego Fortnite and Fortnite OG, an entire new mode in Blitz Royale, and a brand new map for Ballistic.