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WithFortniteChapter 5 Season 4’s launch date just around the corner, Epic Games has started teasing some of the elements that will be included in Absolute Doom, including certain portions of the upcoming Battle Royale map. Disney andFortnitehave worked together on several occasions, with characters from Marvel andStar Warsmaking various appearances in-game over the past few years. Earlier this year, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games, making it likely that these appearances will happen more frequently.
For a while now, rumors implying that the next bigFortniteupdate would be Marvel-themed have been circling the community, and this became clear during theFortnitex Disney D23 livestreamon August 10. During the livestream, Disney revealed the Chapter 5 Season 4 trailer, which featured tons of Marvel skins. Some of the skins were revamped in order to make them more suitable for theFortniteBattle Pass, namely Peely in a Wolverine suit. Nevertheless,FortniteAbsolute Doom will focus exclusively on Marvel characters.
The Absolute Doom trailer showed a fair bit of content that’s expected to be featured during the next season ofFortnite. Fans got to see theChapter 5 Season 4 Battle Pass skins, mythic powers and weapons, and even some never-before-seen landmarks and locations in the background. The latter made fans particularly curious about the changes that would be made to theFortnitemap. To tease them further, Epic Games released a picture of the upcoming Battle Royale map covered by a mysterious green mist.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 POIs Likely To Be Vaulted
TheFortniteAbsolute Doom reveal trailermade it clear that a prison would be added to the Chapter 5 Season 4 map, as well as a Doctor Doom-dominated location. The mist in the map preview covers various POIs on the map, such as Classy Courts, Brutal Beachhead, and Sandy Steppes. However, other locations seem to be immune. Lavish Lair and Pleasant Piazza seem to be the most likely locations for the new Marvel POIs, as it is possible to see that they’ve undergone significant changes.
The officialFortniteX account spoke about the undiscovered stories in each location, tagging Marvel and asking for help as part of the teaser.Marvel then replied with a pictureof one of the upcoming POIs for theFortniteBattle Royale map, Latveria, a country dominated by the one and only Doctor Doom. To learn more about its relation toFortnite, fans will have to wait until the release of Chapter 5 Season 4 on August 16.
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