Fortnite to go \u201cbeyond battle royale\u201d with open-world mode Epic GamesEpic Games has unveiled bold plans to take their flagship title Fortnite \u201cbeyond battle royale\u201d off the back of a new \u201copen-world\u201d game mode, following in the footsteps of rival Apex Legends and their competitive \u201cArenas\u201d playlists. The Fortnite publishers have been quite vocal in the past few years about their desire to expand their battle royale beyond its original, and now very much iconic last-man-standing game mode. According to Fortnite\u2019s newly leaked Stipulated Exhibits Documents, which were officially revealed as part of the ongoing Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit, there\u2019s plans behind the scenes to make an \u201copen-world simulation sandbox mode,\u201d in a similar vein to Grand Theft Auto\u2019s sprawling Los Santos multiplayer map. Fortnite insider HYPEX tweeted the news late on May 3. \u201cEpic will go beyond Battle Royale [next season], and give us an open-world simulation sandbox,\u201d the Fortnite leaker revealed. He also hypothesized the new mode may be \u201ca replacement for Battle Lab\u201d in future seasons. Ironically, this same claim \u2014 to \u201cgo beyond battle royale\u201d \u2014 was the slogan Respawn just rolled out for their latest Apex Legends season, Legacy. The plan, which Epic has reportedly had bubbling away at their Cary studios in North Carolina for some time now, also evokes Minecraft and more recently Roblox\u2019s popular game builder engine with its \u201copen-world\u201d designs. Perhaps the closest comparison though, fairly, is Fortnite\u2019s co-operative title, \u201cSave the World\u201d. While Epic\u2019s original Fortnite release is classically dubbed as an \u201copen-world\u201d adventure, the free-to-play game is actually closer to Left 4 Dead 2 or Call of Duty: Zombies in nature. This newly-leaked playlist will lean towards Minecraft or Valheim, insiders have suggested. Leaks from this week also seem to confirm these recent reports. Newly uncovered images depict a campsite in a large, Fortnite-style forest. Three spawn spots, including for \u201cAssault Rifles,\u201d \u201cMakeshift Bows,\u201d and \u201cPrimal Bows,\u201d appear in one still. A large forest \u2018biome\u2019 appears in another. HYPEX also originally shared several \u201cSandbox\u201d images on Apr. 27, including tree & camp codes, and a \u201cweird thing to spawn random objects with a seed.\u201d Even better, this new \u201copen-world\u201d mode is just around the corner. As Dexerto understands, Epic has already loaded a number of the new mode\u2019s codes and elements into the battle royale backend. This suggests a release date could be imminent; expect an announcement sometime soon, now that the blockbuster Apple lawsuit has led to it leaking early. Also leaked from the Epic vs Apple lawsuit; scrapped The Rock, the Hunger Games, and Arianna Grande crossovers, and an upcoming Naruto skin release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite to go \u201cbeyond battle royale\u201d with open-world mode Epic GamesEpic Games has unveiled bold plans to take their flagship title Fortnite \u201cbeyond battle royale\u201d off the back of a new \u201copen-world\u201d game mode, following in the footsteps of rival Apex Legends and their competitive \u201cArenas\u201d playlists. The Fortnite publishers have been quite vocal in […]<\/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-73202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202","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=73202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}