The Long-Awaited Jetpacks
We were so close to getting jetpacks in Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of February. So close, yet so far. A matter of days before they were supposed to be added into the game, Epic Games shared that “a last minute design issue with the jetpack” had been found and would delay its launch. The specifics weren’t disclosed, but all we were told is that we’d eventually see them as part of an update further down the line.
Now, in a cartoony world where all manner of weapons and items can be found in chests, it only seems right that an item as heavily inspired by sci-fi as the jetpack would make its way to the game in some grandiose fashion. Say, for example, like a comet eradicating the giant metropolis that is Tilted Towers.
It wouldn’t be a bad trade-off either, come to think of it. Having the aerial mobility that jetpacks would bring to Fortnite would certainly shake things up, similar to how Tilted’s arrival (and suspected removal) from the map shook things up from the pre-Tiled Towers era. Without a large portion of players dropping in one place, there’d be more reason for an item to help you get around or traverse the world that little bit faster. It’d also make those locations at the extremities of the map that little more viable as a landing option, too, knowing a jetpack could have you at the circle on the other side of the map (if it happened to fall there) in no time at all.
