Did Epic Games take inspiration from a fan concept for Chiller Grenade? After Epic Games announced that the Fortnite community will soon be able to get their hands on a brand new Chiller Grenade, one player couldn\u2019t help but think they\u2019ve seen it all before. The new item, which was posted to the in-game news feed on January 28, has been teased by the developer ahead of Fortnite\u2019s next weekly update. However, one fan can\u2019t help but think that its design has been inspired by a concept they posted on Reddit over 70 days ago. Reddit user, Weinstein312, posted their own spin on the original grenade item back on November 15 of last year, with the tagline: \u201cVault the Chillers, and bring us a throwable version of it \u2013 Snow Bombs.\u201d They proposed that the grenades would be found in stacks of three and would turn players into ice for six seconds, after being hit by them. Check out both the official and the concept designs for the icy item below. Now, while Weinstein\u2019s initial design wasn\u2019t exactly the finished article, you can see the similarities between the Chiller Grenade and itself quite clearly. As the Chiller Grenade is still yet to be released, Fortnite fans can only make assumptions from the brief description on the game\u2019s new feed, which does suggest it will be very similar to the concept indeed. \u201cGive your enemies cold feet with this winter blast,\u201d it says. There is no guarantee that the new item was inspired by the Reddit concept, as many players have been wanting an ice-style bomb to be added to the game for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did Epic Games take inspiration from a fan concept for Chiller Grenade? After Epic Games announced that the Fortnite community will soon be able to get their hands on a brand new Chiller Grenade, one player couldn\u2019t help but think they\u2019ve seen it all before. The new item, which was posted to the in-game news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}