Rumor: Fortnite Battle Royale Might Add Drivable Shopping Carts
By Nicholas Barth ·
There are currently no drivable vehicles in Fortnite Battle Royale, but datamined files from the game point to a possibility of the shopping carts currently in the title being the first ones for the game.
Update 5/28/18 12:40 PM PST: Check out the in-game splash screen confirming this rumor.
One item that Fortnite Battle Royale has not had that its competitors in Player Unknowns Battlegrounds and H1Z1 do is vehicles that players have the ability to drive around their respective maps. However, there is a possibility that this could change in the future according to datamined files that were discovered by Fortnite News outlets Fortnite Intel and Fortnite Insider and YouTuber DieBuddiesZocken.
In its report, Fortnite Intel cited that an influx of shopping carts were added to the map after the release of Patch v3.0.0, which implemented Season 3 for Fortnite Battle Royale, including a row of four carts being lined up at the racetrack located on the eastern side of the map. While the addition of the shopping carts themselves would not point to the fact that they may become drivable vehicles, datamined game files that were recently added to the title's Athena directory, which is where all of the battle royale files are found, according to Fortnite Intel.
In the Athena directory, shopping cart specific files have been added to a "DrivableVehicles" folder. These files include the model of the cart that is currently being used for the static ones found on the map and animation files that consist of braking, jogging, pushing, riding and walking. These suggest that players will soon be able to interact with the shopping carts and move them in a variety of ways.
Fortnite Insider's article added to the speculation with a screenshot from YouTuber's DieBuddiesZocken video that showed in-game sound files for the shopping carts.
It is important to note that this is currently all speculative until it is confirmed by Epic Games. However, even though the developer has stated in the past that they do not believe that there is a need for vehicles for the purpose of traveling, they left the door open for the possibility of incorporating vehicles that offer "unique/hilarious functionality aside from fast movement". In addition to this, DieBuddiesZocken has been at the forefront of leaking future content with their datamining skills, especially for cosmetic items, so there is a high possibility that their discovery of the shopping cart sound files will lead to some form of the item being used in an interactive manner in the future.
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(cover photo courtesy of Fortnite Intel)