In Fortnite: Battle Royale, the map has been changed again with the latest update. The most important change is the new teleporters under Wailing Woods. A hint at even more movement in the future?
What has changed in Fortnite? Update 6.30 brought a ton of new features to the game, including extensive innovations in the PvE mode Save the World as well as the crazy new mode Food Fight and the heavy turret.
One could almost overlook that there were a few changes to the map, including a small innovation in Wailing Woods that could drastically change the game in the future!
Fortnite meets Portal
The mysterious bunker: Observant players have surely already found the bunker in Wailing Woods. It is located under the well-known treehouse with the hedge maze and was newly introduced with Season 6.
Teleporters as a new feature: Down there in the bunker, a single rift was isolated in a research environment. The rift is now gone and has likely been stabilized by scientists.
At the four canal exits in the bunker, which end at a solid wall, teleport portals have now appeared. You can see what it looks like on Reddit.
What do the teleporters do? When you go through the portals, they do not dissolve and instead of beaming you randomly to the sky, they teleport you to a fixed point on the map. This point is (currently) only a few meters away on the other side of the wall at another location in Wailing Woods.
So what? What does it bring me? Admittedly, in their current form, the teleporters are a nice gimmick that only becomes interesting if you get surprised by enemies in Wailing Woods and want to flee quickly or want to ambush an opponent in the bunker.
But somehow the teleporters give the impression that more is to come. Perhaps the new technology is just being tested and will find extensive use on the map in Season 7. Then Fortnite would be even more mobile, and players could quickly switch from A to B.
What else has changed?
Tilted Towers reconstruction: A stylish new boutique was inaugurated in Tilted Towers in Season 5. Shortly thereafter, however, the cube came and flattened it. The construction ruin is currently being rebuilt, and a new building should soon emerge there.
Fun Fact: This is already the second time that this place is being rebuilt. Already in Season 4, the building fell victim to destruction, this time by the comet. Let’s see how long this place stays intact this time and whether the destruction and reconstruction of the building will become a kind of running gag in every season.
Food Truck Stand-Off: While the Food Fight rages in a separate mode, the two food trucks from Pizza Pit and Durrr Burger have moved. They are now stalking each other behind the football field at Pleasant Park.
