Fortnite: Battle Royale seems to be planning a new game mode soon according to a leak. This time it will be about the Wild West and only allow weapons from that era.
What is Epic up to now? Just recently, Epic released the immensely fun mode Food Fight, and now there’s already a leak about the next wacky game mode in Fortnite. This time it is said to be about the Wild West.
Western Mode with Old-School Weapons
What the data miners found: According to the leaks from the data miners at FNBRLeaks, the new mode is expected to focus on battles in the style of the old West. This means that there will likely only be weapons that were known in the good old cowboy days.
So only revolvers, shotguns and hunting rifles. Additionally, there is supposed to be dynamite as a new explosive weapon.
No modern gadgets: What is missing, however, are modern weapons like assault rifles, SMGs, traps, and rocket launchers. Shields were not a thing back in the West, but there was probably Slurp Juice.
According to the leaks, hints at all the Western fun include specific Western sayings from the data. They sound something like this:
- “No fancy technology here, partner!”
- “What do you mean by shields?”
- “Light the fuse and throw it!”
- “This island ain’t big enough for the hundred of us, partner!”
It looks like the new mode is a regular Battle Royale fight with a very limited selection of weapons. So, a clear step away from the now cluttered with items and weapons meta of the other Fortnite modes.
Wasn’t Wild West just now? Indeed, the leak about the Wild West mode comes as a bit of a surprise. A Western theme has been circulating in the community’s rumor mill for months.
For many players, it seemed to be settled after the two Western skins Calamity and Deadfire already appeared in the Halloween plot.
When the mode will come and whether it will even appear like this is, however, not known.
Moreover, Epic does not want to tolerate such leaks anymore and is taking action against data miners more vigorously:
