Fortnite leak hints at Tomb Raider crossover with Lara Croft skin Epic Games \/ Square EnixFortnite players are convinced that the game\u2019s next major crossover skin will be Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise. When Season 5 of Epic Games\u2019 popular battle royale launched in December 2020, it came with the theme of \u2018bounty hunters\u2019 as Agent Jonesy attempted to \u201cgather the greatest hunters across all realities\u201d to protect The Loop. So far, we\u2019ve seen hunters including God of War\u2019s Kratos, Halo\u2019s Master Chief, The Walking Dead\u2019s Daryl and Michonne, and of course The Mandalorian make appearances in the game as playable skins. Who\u2019s next? Well, fans have been gathering clues \u2013 alongside a recent leak \u2013 and they think they\u2019ve discovered that the next newcomer to The Island will be none other than Tomb Raider legend Lara Croft. Is Lara Croft going to be in Fortnite? According to Fortnite dataminer Mang0e, a new crossover skin codenamed \u2018Typhoon\u2019 will be arriving in the game soon. It will be a female character with reactive styles, and the portal on the map indicting her arrival has a \u2018flicker\u2019 effect. While codenames like this one don\u2019t always have a link to the final skin, some fans believe that \u2018Typhoon\u2019 is a reference to the opening of 2013 reboot Tomb Raider, where Lara gets stranded on an island after a violent storm sinks her ship. As for being reactive, there could be a number of possibilities. One could be that as the player receives damage, the skin appears more bloody and bandaged up, which would reflect Lara\u2019s modern appearance in the recent trilogy of games. A recent tweet from the official Tomb Raider account has added even more fuel to the fire. Using symbols, the tweet depicts Lara thinking about three emojis. One of them is a pickaxe, which is a piece of Fortnite iconography. Of course, Lara uses a pickaxe in her own game, but that hasn\u2019t stopped fans from speculating. Lara would also fit the \u2018hunter\u2019 aspect of the season, as she uses her bow and arrow to hunt prey in the games. \u3002 \uff4f \u25cb \u256d\u25dc\u25dd \u0361 \u25dc \u0361 \u25dc\u25dd \u25dc \u0361 \u25dd \u25dc \u256e ( \u26cf\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udffb\u2640\ufe0f\ud83c\udff9 ) \u2570\u25df\u25de \u035c \u25df\u25de\u25df\u25de \u035c \u25df\u25de \u035c \u25de \u256f\u2014 Tomb Raider (@tombraider) January 11, 2021 The rumors have even got some dedicated fans creating their own artwork. Twitter user @wawa_cwoft mocked up what Lara Croft could look like as a Fortnite character, and it\u2019s got us fully on board with the concept (as if we weren\u2019t already). I would LOVE to say this was easy and didn’t take me hours, and that I’m actually satisfied with it\u2026 But alas\u2026 \ud83d\ude02 Here’s my very mediocre attempt at #LaraCroft in @FortniteGame! @TombRaider pic.twitter.com\/cDmvvs5bOs \u2014 \u2728Joshua (@wawa_cwoft) January 14, 2021 But what if it\u2019s not Lara Croft? Well, there\u2019s been heavy speculation about Metroid\u2019s intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran joining Fortnite as a crossover skin. With Kratos representing PlayStation and Master Chief representing Xbox, Nintendo are the only company behind the \u2018big three\u2019 consoles who haven\u2019t got a skin representing them yet. Samus could be perfect for the job. Whoever the new crossover skin turns out to be, fans will be able to get their hands on them soon enough as Season 5 of Fortnite is scheduled to come to an end on March 16, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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