Tonight’s Chapter 2 Remix: The Prelude stay occasion has simply concluded in Fortnite, with greater than 10 million gamers in-game and thousands and thousands extra watching through YouTube and TikTok.
As Fortnite’s in-game countdown clock reached zero, tonight’s occasion was revealed to be a livestreamed live performance held for actual in New York’s Occasions Sq., the place Ice Spice and Snoop Dogg carried out in entrance of a giant crowd.
Each singers will be a part of Fortnite’s subsequent season, Chapter 2 Remix, which kicks off tomorrow. They will even be joined in-game by the returning Eminem, who headlined final 12 months’s Massive Bang in-game occasion, and who seems to be to be getting one other pores and skin.
An much more shocking addition, maybe, can be late rapper and Fortnite fan Jarad “Juice WRLD” Higgins. Gamers who log in on thirtieth November, when Chapter 2 Remix concludes with an additional stay occasion, will get a cel-shaded Slayer Juice WRLD pores and skin without cost. It is the primary time Fortnite has featured a pores and skin primarily based on the likeness of somebody who’s deceased.
“Jarad all the time cherished to play Fortnite – it was extra than simply leisure for him, it was a technique to join with others,” mentioned Carmela Wallace, mom of Jarad “Juice WRLD” Higgins’ mom in a press release tonight.
“From a younger age, video video games had been part of how he bonded with family and friends, and being in Fortnite is an unimaginable tribute to that connection. I do know he can be overjoyed to see how his love for video games continues to deliver individuals collectively throughout completely different areas, identical to his music does.”
Snoop Dogg additionally launched a press release tonight, forward of his arrival in Fortnite, starting with Chapter 2 Remix’s launch tomorrow.
“Being a part of Fortnite is all about creating, enjoying, and sharing my music and tradition with the following technology,” Snoop mentioned. “My son Cordell’s a giant Fortnite participant with me, so once we had the chance we jumped on it as a brand new technique to join with my sound and elegance. Anybody might be Snoop in Fortnite.”
Chapter 2 Remix is about to final 4 weeks, and introduce a brand new music artist every week, situated at acquainted Chapter 2 places. Snoop (who notably can be Fortnite Competition Season 6’s featured artist) will take up residency at The Company, whereas Eminem seems on seventh November at The Grotto, Ice Spice turns up in week three on 14th November at Shark Island, and a contemporary landmark devoted to Juice WRLD turns up in week 4, from twenty first November.
Gameplay-wise, Chapter 2 Remix will see the long-awaited return of motorboats, with helicopters set to return later within the season. Snoop’s hydraulic-bouncing 1966 Cadillac DeVille will even be out there, and sure you can also make it leap within the air.
A brand new beauty kind, Kicks, is being launched so your skins can put on branded footwear, due to course. Preliminary manufacturers embrace Nike and Jordan, with the latter included within the new season move.
Additional additions starting tomorrow embrace a brand new map for Fortnite Reload, which incorporates completely different landmarks from the Fortnite Chapter 1 map, that may rotate each half-hour with the unique Reload map. A brand new solos mode for Fortnite Reload will even debut, the place gamers have three lives complete.
One final, long-requested function: enhancements to Fortnite’s locker will imply you possibly can as soon as once more bundle saved loadouts, with house for 200 now added.
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