Fortnite OG Season 3 Launches Today Alongside The Walking Dead Assets Including Negan's Infamous Baseball Bat, Lucille

Fortnite OG Season 3 launches contiguous alongside the accomplishment of assets from The Walking Dead, including Negan's infamous shot bat.

Chapter 1 Season 3 sees the instrumentality of the Lucky Landing POI and a meteor that’s connected a “seriously worrying collision course!” Epic Games said. Also from the OG days, the 50v50 LTM returns arsenic OG 50v50.

OG 50v50 pits 2 50-player teams against each other, and runs until 9am ET connected April 14. Fortnite veterans volition retrieve that 50v50 was the first-ever LTM to beryllium added to Fortnite Battle Royale, each the mode backmost successful 2017.

The meteor volition look successful the entity aboriginal successful OG Chapter 1 Season 3, and get person and person arsenic the Season goes on. This, too, volition beryllium fondly remembered by Fortnite players who were determination to spot conflict royale footwear disconnected backmost successful the day.

Meanwhile, starting today, March 25, anyone tin make their ain The Walking Dead Universe islands for Fortnite utilizing Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and Fortnite Creative.

Creators tin commencement a caller task utilizing 1 of the caller The Walking Dead Universe templates to entree unsocial Walking Dead-themed weapons, Prefabs, Galleries, and Walker NPCs. Then, connected May 16, developers volition beryllium capable to people their The Walking Dead Universe islands via the Creator Portal and marque them disposable for radical to play.

Negan's infamous shot bat, Lucille, hits Fortnite. Image credit: Epic Games.

Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead, said: “This collaboration with Fortnite is an unthinkable accidental to grow The Walking Dead successful ways we’ve ne'er imagined. Whether it’s Lucille smashing done hordes oregon the eerie beingness of Walkers, I can’t hold to spot wherever the Fortnite community’s creativity takes us.”

Here’s a breakdown of immoderate of the Walking Dead tools disposable for Fortnite creators today:

• Walker NPC - Slow, unintelligent, horde enemies, Walkers are motivated by their primal thrust to devour humans.
• Weapons and Items - Mow ‘em down with the Shiva Shotgun Ranged Weapon, an exotic, modded pump shotgun (which besides triggers a Shiva tiger roar); usage the Lucille Melee Weapon, the iconic heavy-hitting shot bat wrapped successful ligament wielded by the infamous Negan (and cleanable for bashing successful Walkers and Survivors alike).
• Effects - Create with the caller dense linework post-processing effect, a shader that influences the wide look and consciousness of an land to bring the code and ocular benignant of The Walking Dead comics.

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