One of the biggest reveals of Chapter 2 Season 8's live event was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson being shown as the voice actor for the Foundation, a prominent character in Chapter 1 and 2's cinematics. The Foundation is a special skin that can be unlocked separately from the battle pass. There is no way to unlock the titular character, with his release date being February 3, 2022. There seems to be both a helmet and no helmet style for the skin, as w

Chapter 3 of Fortnite opened with the player character being drifted onto a smaller island of the new map, trudging along until they are greeted by the Foundation, who is with a group of other loopers. He tells the player that they will find a way to "break the loop," which has been a recurring theme since Chapter 1. The camera then pans over to the brand new map, which features about four main biomes: a snowy tundra, the usual grassy forest, a desert, and an archipelago which seems to be where the Foundation and his buddies l

When it comes to shaping the X-Men team, no one (save perhaps Charles Xavier) has been as influential as Cyclops. As the first member of the X-Men and its longest-serving member, Cyclops has gone from being a scared student who couldn't control his mutant ability, to a confidant leader and master tactician. Cyclops has spent his life fighting tirelessly for mutant kind, with many regarding him as the ultimate X-

Catalyst and Drift were both parts of Battle Passes and could be upgraded, unlocking new styles options as players completed quests and leveled up. Both begin very simply, and in the end turn out to be these robed, masked individuals with supercharge electricity flowing all around them. They are some of the best tier-one Legendary skins that players received from Battle Pass so far with their high fashion look and varying potent

Vi is another version of the Drift skins that was one of the first Fortnite Crew skins that popped up at the beginning of 2021. Fortnite players had to sign up to be a part of the Fortnite Crew to get this Legendary skin for free with her alternate style and accessor

This season's battle pass is especially huge, with a ton of new skins, gliders, loading screens, and pickaxes being included. Spider-Man is the most prominent character featured in the pass, with the skin having unlockable suits and styles. The skin includes the default red and blue fit for Peter Parker but also includes the white and black Future Foundation suit and the black symbiote suit. Gears of War 's Marcus Fenix and Cait Diaz were both teased in the trailer for Chapter 3's battle pass, so they may be included later on as the season contin

Unreal is owned now by Epic Games, so this change doesn’t seem particularly surprising, but it’s still important nonetheless, as Fortnite: Chapter 3 runs entirely on the upgrade. The company is heavily marketing the improvements to large open-world games and detail-oriented realism with revisions of the lighting system and world generation. Fortnite still being one of the most played free-to-play games means that the engine has to run on high-end systems and low, so the game running flawlessly despite varying PC and console builds is import

Even with battles at a further distance thanks to the scope and bloom, the recoil can still punish players to prevent them from hitting all 3 shots, and that might be a tad unreliable when other hitscan weapons are lasering

Earlier this December, **Fortnite ** upgraded its engine to Unreal Engine 5 from 4. Unreal Engine 4 already had ray tracing and a complex particle effect system that helped create polished graphics for Fortnite , but the upgrade has important features that game developers outside of Epic Games are also taking advantage of. The Matrix Awakens and Senusa’s Saga: Hellblade II were both shown off at The SLG Game Strategy Awards and showcase the high level of detail games can achieve with the new eng

A single headshot still won’t instantly kill an opponent , and while having three rounds is the perfect support for those who aren’t going to hit every shot, the toggle zoom can often be unreliable when it comes to each bullet, as bullet drop will interfere with the target z

Fortnite ’s art style seems to clash with the realism that the Unreal Engine is advertising, and at the top end Fortnite doesn't take full advantage of Unreal 5 , but these changes actually make for a better experience for all players. Not only does the development team benefit from improvements to workflow management and processing speed, but people with lower-end systems will also still be able to run the game at higher resolutions due to the improvements in upscaling and world generation. Overall, not only will Unreal Engine 5 allow Epic to work more efficiently on updates to the already massive game, Fortnite players will most likely see an improvement to graphical quality and frame ra

While Jean Grey fans were no doubt excited by her surprise appearance in Fortnite , Jean is more than just the Dark Phoenix, and Fortnite should acknowledge that by giving Jean her own skin, separate from her Phoenix Force that she has always struggled to control. While it would be fantastic to see a green version of her Phoenix costume as an alternate selectable skin, it would be even cooler to see her take on the mantle of Marvel Girl once again, as she has in the comics. Her green and gold dress or her X-Men Red costume would make for great skins in Fortn