Leaker reveals how Fortnite kept Travis Scott event hidden Epic GamesA Fortnite leaker has revealed how Epic Games tried to keep the Travis Scott event a secret and avoid major data mined leaks from spoiling it, by using code words. This isn\u2019t the first time Epic has put on a major event, as the previous in-game concert by Marshmello was also a viral hit. However, that event was leaked heavily in advance. That isn\u2019t to say that the Travis Scott event was kept totally secret, as leakers did find evidence of a skin for the rapper in the game files, but no one knew a major concert was coming until Epic teased it in-game themselves. This was a big improvement in Epic\u2019s ongoing battle against leakers, and it looks like they used some simple trickery to avoid it being easily found in the game files. Unlike the Travis Scott skin (which was simply a cosmetic set called \u2018Travis Scott\u2019), the event itself was called \u2018CycloneJerky\u2019 in the game files. This led to rampant speculation about the \u201cjerky event\u201d, but no one had any idea what this meant. MASSIVE: An event currently just called “”Jerky”” is in the works, relavant to previous tweet The playlist used for, the end, marshmello, etc was modified with the name “”Jerky”” “”There’s no goal score before the event. Hang out and have fun before the event starts.”” \u2014 Lucas7yoshi \u2013 FESTIVAL ARC??? (@Lucas7yoshi) April 15, 2020 Leakers did note that the Marshmello concert had also been called Jerky, but it looks like this is Epic\u2019s way of misleading data miners to prevent them from finding big upcoming content or events. It looks like \u2018CycloneJerky\u2019 was simply used for \u2018CJ\u2019, standing for Cactus Jack, one of Travis Scott\u2019s nicknames. In fact, it\u2019s not the first time Epic have used this trick. Lucas7Yoshi also gave examples of other initials used to cover up new content in the game files. These include \u2018ZebraWallet\u2019 for Zone Wars, or \u2018TourBus\u2019 for Tyler Blevins (aka Ninja). If you aren\u2019t aware epic LOOVES taking names, taking just the first letters of each word and then coming up with another word to replace it TourBus TB Tyler Blevins ZebraWallet ZW Zone Wars Etc \u2014 Lucas7yoshi \/\/ leaks (@Lucas7yoshi) April 24, 2020 Perhaps Epic thought that the \u2018TS\u2019 initials would have been too obvious for data miners, and so opted for Travis\u2019s Cactus Jack name instead. We can likely expect more in-game concerts in the future too, not least because of the massive viewing numbers for this latest event. Over 10 million players watched live in-game. Additionally, the new single revealed in the concert, with Travis Scott and Kid Cudi, instantly shot to number one, proving a Fortnite concert could be the perfect way for artists to promote new music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leaker reveals how Fortnite kept Travis Scott event hidden Epic GamesA Fortnite leaker has revealed how Epic Games tried to keep the Travis Scott event a secret and avoid major data mined leaks from spoiling it, by using code words. This isn\u2019t the first time Epic has put on a major event, as the previous […]<\/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-76267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267","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=76267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}