Fortnite dropped a bunch of recent collabs in fast succession this week with Gorillaz, the Entrance Man from Squid Game, and the One Punch Man cosmetics on Tuesday and Wednesday. However apparently Epic is not completed with this week simply but, as a result of the Fortnite Instagram account simply teased a brand new pores and skin based mostly on an area dwarf from the co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic.
The countdown timer signifies this six-foot-tall dwarf pores and skin will hit the Fortnite merchandise store on Friday on the normal store reset time at 5 PM PT. It’s going to probably have some equipment that include it, like a pickaxe, again bling, and wrap–though that is not all the time the case with particular person gaming skins like this. The Goat from Goat Simulator, for instance, by no means acquired any equipment, and Goat Simulator and Deep Rock Galactic share the identical writer. The picture above is all the tease, and so there isn’t any technique to inform what else, if something, may include it.
This can be a uncommon instance of Fortnite collaborating with one other online game that is not obtainable on the Epic Video games Retailer. It is not one thing that occurs quite a bit, nevertheless it’s not notably surprising both, since Halo simply acquired a slot on the present battle cross regardless of additionally not being on EGS.
Deep Rock Galactic, launched in early entry on PC and Xbox in 2018 earlier than getting a full launch in 2020, is a co-op shooter wherein gamers management their very own customized fantasy-style dwarf as they attempt to mine beneficial sources in procedurally generated cave techniques on a hostile alien planet. This collaboration is probably going pegged to the brand new spinoff recreation Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, a chaotic top-down shooter which exits early entry in September.