Fortnite Season 2 Tease is a Welcome Return to its Glorious Best, Crypto Coins News
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Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 2 starts this Thursday, Feb.
Developer Epic Games is teasing the new update with cryptic tweets, real-world ads, and ARG elements.
It’s Fortnite back to it’s very best.
After months of relative silence , Epic Games’ well-oiled marketing machine has sprung back to life with teases for Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 2. Cryptic tweets, real-world ads, and ARG elements – it’s all reminiscent of Fortnite at its very best.
Back in Back in summer , Fortnite landmarks popped up in real-world locations such as the California desert to tease Season 5.
A real-life ‘agent’ dished out cards leading to coordinates in France. Lamas popped up in European capitals . The whole thing was a delightful puzzle that players followed with baited breath when Fortnite was at the height of its popularity.
Fortnite Twitter Tease
The Season 2 tease began with a tweet sent out by the official Fortnite Twitter handle yesterday. It included an image sporting a golden hand print with the message ‘Transmission Intercepted,’ and the date / 55 / . The text of the tweet itself featured the ‘Transmission Intercepted’ message alongside redacted text.
(Source: Three tweets have followed since, each time unveiling a portion of the redacted text. The latest one, authored around hours ago, reads as follows;
Transmission Intercepted FN.CH S (Origin==Au
A masked man – referred to in the latest image as a ‘henchmen’ in multiple languages - has replaced the golden hand print. Increasing the brightness of the last image also
reveals what appears to be a new Fortnite map location .
Alongside, billboards advertising Fortnite have sprung up across the globe. Players have spotted them in the US, Japan, France, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Poland, Mexico , and Russia. Each one features the Fortnite logo stamped with the mysterious golden handprint and redacted text revealing only a phone number.
(Source: Reddit
Calling the numbers leads to an answerphone message. The US audio shares the following;
Agency recruitment drive is a go. Happy hunting agents. Agents, oil rig operation is confirmed.
It then ends with what sounds like a cat struggling to cough up a furball.
The audio message differs depending on the country. For example, the
The teases are a refreshing change of pace after months of inactivity. They do well to remind us why the world fell in love with Fortnite in the first place.
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