“It's not a question of if, but a question of when” - As Fortnite Battle Royale’s meteor gets closer, Epic confirms a new map is on the cards
Fortnite Battle Royale𝓀 might have pranked us with its morse code g🏅litch, but Epic says a second map is definitely coming

On April Fool's Day, most game developers like to release a joke announcement or temporary feature designed to get people laughing, as opposed to genuinely excited for something that's not real꧟ly there. This year, Pokemon GO had 8-bit Pokemon, Rocket League had giant novelty hats, and Creative Assembly announced Total War: Battle Royale. All fun, clearly non-serious jokes.
Not so for Fortnite Battle Royale, which decided the best way to prank its 45 million players was to craft an elaborate hoax involving morse code, meteors, and the rumble feature found within your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox One controller and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS4 controller. Long story short, players were led to believe the game's sole map was 🧸set to change in a big way over the weekend, only to find that it was all much ado about nothing.
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But but but... in our recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fortnite Battle Royale interview with the game's Lead Designer Eric Williamson, the possibility of a new map was toꦑuched upon, and Williamson's comments should offer some hope to those left disappointed by the April Fools stunt.
GamesRadar: Do you see there ever being another map,🍰 or are you quite set on there being this one that you can iterate on?&n💎bsp;
Williamson: We've discussed it internally. It's pr🎃obably not a question of if, but certainly a question o꧅f when.
Williamson followed up by saying that Epic wasn't currently preparing to bring out anything at the time, but considering the exceptionally speedy and forward-thinking pace that the studio operate at with Battle Royale, maybe the last few weeks since that interview have been all that's needed to begin the countdown clock for island arena number t🍬wo.
You might already be aware of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:continually descending meteor that can be spotted glowing🤪 across the skies of Fortnite Battle Royale's single map, which has been getting larger and closer with every passing week. Players have interpreted this as a tease for somethin𓂃g big, potentially signalling a huge change to the topography of Fortnite's map.
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Then, last week, players on console were experiencing seemingly random controller ෴vibrations whenever they were playing Battle Royale, before some decided to interpret the "glitch" as morse code, and discovered the following message: SOS D 5 418.
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We all know SOS as a common distress signal, but those numbers are the coordinates for Tilted Towers, a hugely popular point of interest, followed by the date of April 1, 2018. This discovery was all that was needed to get 🧜people anticipating the meteor to strike Tilted Towers on April Fool's Day, but the holiday came and went with nothing to show for it in-game.
It now looks like this was either a hugely coincidental bug, or one big prank 𝔉from Epic, but the comet remains in the sky and is getting closer with every passing week, meaning its not just a weird glitch or random asset, but a deliberate construction by Epic thatไ is clearly counting down to something.
What doℱ you think about all this April's Fools day business? Are you anticipating a brand nಞew map, or will the meteor have us fighting amongst the ruins of Tilted Towers? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and why not tell us your best April Fools day joke while you're there?
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