A new leak hinted at a changed map for Season 2 in Fortnite. The leak quickly spread across the internet. While this change would be cool, it is a fake. A video now shows how the images were created.
What kind of leak is this? Images surfaced on the 4chan message board, showing what we might expect before the end/start of the next season. The images showed a changed map and 2 scenes from the trailer.
The images from the alleged trailer showed a few Battle Pass skins that looked quite shocked. The images looked surprisingly poor and grainy, to enhance the “leaks must look bad” effect.
The leaked map mainly shows changes to the location Steamy Stacks in the northeastern part of the map.
It seems that the reactors exploded and the purple liquid spilled into the sea:
The leak would be cool, but unfortunately, it is fake
Although the images show a cool story for a live event at the end of Season 1 Chapter 2 when the reactor explodes, it has now been revealed that the images were faked.
YouTuber shows how he faked the images
How were the images created? The YouTuber KinaKingy admitted that he faked the images. In his YouTube video, he shows how he created the images.
For explanation, he uses a speech generator since he does not speak fluent English.
In this video by KinaKingy, you can see how he edited and faked the images:
He apologizes to those who had hopes due to his images.
“I only did it for fun, but it got out of hand, so many sites, YouTubers, and leakers took notice.”
Community did not trust the leak
The images were heavily discussed in the community, as it was unclear whether it was just a fake.
The data miner FireMonkey asked the community on Twitter what they thought of the leak:
The majority of people agreed that the images were a fake. However, there were also some who believed the images were real.
A cool live event would surely have been created, but now we have to wait and see what awaits us at the end of the Season 1, which ends on 20.02.2020.
What is it with leaks and Fortnite? In the past, leaks about Fortnite have repeatedly appeared that no one believed at the time, but later turned out to be true.
Epic has already sued an internal game tester multiple times afterwards because they leaked secret information.
In this case, it was probably a classic fake.
