When Epic first revealed and launched Fortnite‘s in style new Blitz Royale mode on June 17, it got here with an expiration date of July 15. However it did not take lengthy for the corporate to ship an extension.. Blitz Royale has persistently been Fortnite’s hottest mode within the week because it launched, and on Wednesday, Epic up to date the Fortnite API with 4 further weeks of Blitz Royale. The brand new finish date is outwardly August 12.

Leakers consider they already know the themes Epic will give to every of the extra weeks: Jujutsu Kaisen, Mortal Kombat, and Dragon Ball. Blitz Royale is at the moment having Avatar Week, which can be adopted by Boss Week subsequent Tuesday, after which TMNT Week after that. Every of those weeks will function weapons and objects associated to the theme–for the present Avatar week, for instance, the loot pool is filled with the bending scrolls that have been in normal Battle Royale throughout Chapter 5 Season 2, and TMNT week will deliver again every of the turtles’ melee weapons from Chapter 5 Season 1.

Blitz Royale is a faster and smaller model of Fortnite’s battle royale, with 32 gamers on a tiny map, and rounds that final underneath 5 minutes. It is a sooner and furiouser model of Fortnite, and it caught on instantly. If Blitz Royale continues pulling in tons of gamers, it is very possible that Epic will make it a everlasting mode ultimately. This preliminary launch interval could also be about seeing how Blitz Royale impacts the general Fortnite ecosystem. Since all appears to be going nicely on that entrance, we anticipate it will not keep away lengthy if it really does go away on August 12.

As it’s, Blitz Royale will certainly want some overhauls. For one factor, the preliminary storm circle is similar in each spherical, at all times slicing off the northern a part of the island. Secondly, Blitz Royale deserves its personal recent map, as a result of the present Blitz map is only a smaller model of the Reload Enterprise island, and that in flip was only a smaller model of the Chapter 1 OG island. We have already wasted sufficient of our lives preventing over Nice Park and Retail Row, thanks very a lot.