Fortnite’s new post-apocalyptic season has Fallout, Magneto, and vehicular mayhem

Out with the gods, in with… a post-apocalypse. After some teasing, Fortnite simply launched its newest battle royale season — we’re as much as Chapter 5: Season 3 — and it’s closely impressed by Mad Max and Fallout (in truth, Fallout is a part of it). It’s known as “Wrecked,” and it introduces a brand new wasteland area, a bigger deal with vehicular fight, and, for some motive, Magneto.

First up, let’s speak concerning the island itself. Within the recreation’s fiction, a large sandstorm rolled in, utterly altering the southern part of the map. There are three new places: a refinery known as Redline Rig, a automobile area known as Nitrodrome, and a seashore space known as Brutal Beachhead. To go together with them are “Wasteland Warriors,” that are mainly this season’s boss characters, with names like The Machinist and Ringmaster Scarr. Additionally: there at the moment are two Warfare Buses patrolling the island, which gamers can hijack and take over.

It seems there are two primary gameplay updates. One is a substance known as Nitro, which you’ll be able to both drink or use in your automobile: it’ll make gamers sooner, stronger, and reload faster, whereas automobiles will go sooner, devour much less gasoline, and be capable to ram with elevated energy. To go together with this, automobile mods are again, so you may outfit your automotive with gun turrets, bulletproof tires, and extra. And since Fallout is now a part of the Fortnite universe, Nuka-Cola is being added to the sport. Ingesting it can replenish well being and slowly construct your protect.

Talking of Fallout, those that buy this season’s battle move will get themselves some T-60 Energy Armor, together with different characters, together with a sentient pea pod. Beginning in July, X-Males’s Magneto will likely be unlockable as effectively. Right here’s the complete crew:

This season will run till August sixteenth. And it follows a fairly busy interval for the sport, which included collaborations with everybody from Star Wars to Billie Eilish and Lofi Lady.