Bear in mind the ’90s? Epic Video games certain does, and the corporate channeled that absolutely radical decade with a brand new advert selling the brand new Slurp Rush map for Fortnite Reload. That includes the skills of Eric Andre and Kyle Mooney, the advert is an homage to these commercials from the Nineties that had been making an attempt to promote disgusting sugary drinks and snacks to youngsters.
The defunct delicate drink Surge, which was marketed within the late ’90s with the tagline “Feed the Rush,” is a selected goal of parody right here, however this kind of advert was quite common all through that complete decade for just about something that was aimed toward youngsters, together with these sugar-filled drinks and sweet (like Gushers), in addition to toys.
The explanation for this advert’s existence is to advertise Fortnite’s Reload mode, a battle royale mode which permits gamers to respawn mechanically so long as one member of their group is alive, and takes place on comparatively small islands which can be primarily based on previous chapters of the principle Fortnite battle royale. Earlier this week, Reload launched its third map, Slurp Rush, which relies on the Chapter 2 island. To have a good time the launch, Slurp Rush is the one Reload map you possibly can play on proper now, however after this era of exclusivity ends it’ll rotate each half-hour together with the present two maps.
Reload, which was launched final summer time after a really transient improvement interval, has firmly established itself as Fortnite’s second-most-popular mode, far outpacing the participant counts for the everlasting OG mode that launched in December.
April has been a busy month for Fortnite between the Slurp Rush launch and the start of Sabrina Carpenter season in Fortnite Competition final week. However simply wait–things are about to get even wilder in Might as we stay up for the heavily-rumored Star Wars season that’s anticipated to be revealed at Star Wars Celebration in Japan on Saturday.