In Fortnite: Battle Royale (PC, PS4, iOS, Android, Switch & Xbox One) Season 5 is currently dragging on. However, according to Jürgen’s opinion, that should change next week. He senses a big story twist revolving around Drift’s mask.
Big ending in Season 4: Season 4 in Fortnite ended dramatically. A rocket exploded a dimensional rift in the sky, objects disappeared from the game world daily (which then appeared in the real world), and a mysterious alien was to blame for everything.
Great start for Season 5: Season 5 looked even more exciting. And it started off well. The motto of the season was “Worlds Collide” and images of Viking axes and a mysterious fox mask emerged.
For my part, I was completely thrilled. The fox mask promised mysteries, secrets, and an exciting new story. And Vikings too! Oh, this is going to be awesome!
Instead, I got the “Road Trip”.
The new plot in Season 5
Season 5 is developing terribly slow: Just like in Season 4, you can unlock a new title image every week in Season 5.
This time, the associated challenge path is called “Road Trip”, which sounds somewhat dull. This term refers to funny and chaotic party rides across the land, not epic adventures.
The story of Drift: And that’s exactly how the Road Trip is shaping up. It revolves around the character Drift, a graffiti artist whose tag, his signature, is a fox face.
He gets sucked into the Fortnite world through the dimensional rifts, and in the bonus images, you can see him meeting a group of Fortnite heroes, including the Color Bomber, the Cozy Commander, and Rex.
With them, he wanders around, goes go-karting, plays golf, goes to the pool, or watches movies at the drive-in.
What is this Road Trip about?
Why is nothing happening? The images are nice and funny, but I found myself asking more each week: “What the hell is this?”
I slowly don’t care what Drift is doing: “Oh, Drift is playing golf!”, “Wow, he is at the pool!” – So what? Why isn’t anyone shooting? What kind of Fortnite world is this, where everyone just lounges around?
There was more going on in Season 4: In Season 4, the superhero story “Blockbuster” first promised an exciting showdown between heroes and villains. Then suddenly the twist came and everything was just a movie.
And then, in week 7, suddenly the Visitor from the asteroid appeared and launched the rocket. The story was consistently exciting and led to a crazy finale at the end of the season! There’s nothing like that to be seen in Season 5 right now.
Next week, the fun ends!
Theories about the story: But Epic wouldn’t be Epic if they hadn’t hidden something exciting in Season 5. So I firmly believe that the idyllic Road Trip world will soon be thrown into chaos. Here are my theories:
- Next week is week 7 in the game. Those who have completed all Road Trip challenges so far will be able to unlock the still secret bonus skin for the first time next week. In Season 4, that was the Visitor who opened the dimensional rifts at the end. It is likely that Season 5 will introduce another mysterious new character who will trigger similarly world-shattering events.
- The Road Trip day ended in week 6, as Drift arrived in the Fortnite world in the morning and in the image from week 6 was watching movies at the drive-in in the evening. It would make sense that with the new day, a new theme would come into the story as well.
The mask of Drift could be the key
- The fox mask glows: Throughout the Road Trip, Drift gains more outfit pieces and finally gets his fox mask. In the image from week 6, he has removed it, but the eyes glow ominously. It seems that Drift is unaware of this, as he is attentively watching the movie screen with the Color Bomber. It appears to me that the mask is about to do something unexpected.
- The rifts will be gone on August 21. So it is quite certain that something else will happen instead. Week 7 begins on August 24.
And what about the Vikings?
Curiously, the Vikings haven’t appeared yet. This is strange because the warrior “Thora” and the Ultimo skin “Ragnarök” are a fixed part of the Season 5 Battle Pass. And the teasers for Season 5 also included the Vikings.
In Season 4, all skins available in the pass were a fixed part of the story; in Season 5, we have only seen Drift and colorful skins from the shop.
Vikings will attack at the end of the season: So, I strongly expect that the secret skin will also be some sort of Viking and that the other Norse characters will play a role as well. After all, the Vikings even got a new location with a ship.
It would be quite a waste if they didn’t play any role at all.
So much for my speculations. What do you think? Will the Road Trip continue, or will there soon be a big plot twist?
