Eye of the Storm Tracker Item Added to Fortnite Battle Royale

The V4.2 content update for Fortnite Battle Royale has brought a new consumable item type for the inventories of Fortnite players in the form of backpacks. The backpack items will take one of your inventory slots and can be moved to different positions. Equipping a new backpack will automatically replace the one you currently have in your inventory. Once a backpack has been fully consumed, it will be destroyed.

The most advertised form of this new Fortnite backpack item is the newly added Jetpack backpack that allows players to fly through the sky of Fortnite. However, members of the community have begun to report sightings of a Eye of the Storm backpack item in Fortnite even though there was no mention of the Eye of the Storm item in the V4.2 patch notes. 

A new 'Eye of the Storm' backpack item has been added to #Fortnite, allowing you to see where the next circle will be located: https://t.co/GzaV6U6zgl

— FortniteINTEL.com • Fortnite news (@FortniteBR) May 22, 2018

The Eye of the Storm Fortnite backpack allows players to see the location of the next circle before it has been revealed to you by the game. With one of the challenges for Week 4 of Season 4 being to visit the center of three different circles in a single match, the Eye of the Storm backpack could have been added to assist players in the completion of this Week 4 challenge. 

With the Eye of the Storm, Players have the ability to gain valuable information regarding how to formulate their gameplan with the Eye of the Storm item, as they will be able to know the location of the next circle before anyone without the Eye of the Storm backpack and avoid being caught off guard with the announcement of the next circle in a match. 

However, the new Eye of the Storm item was not intended to be added into the game with the Jetpack, as it was a glitched item that has shown itself before Epic Games had intended it to, such as the Vending Machines in the past.

From the official French Fortnite Discord: "The backpack "Eye of the Storm" was not planned in the game, it will be removed soon. It is not yet fully ready." via @Koyamie pic.twitter.com/AnBmkvXnKf

— FortniteINTEL.com • Fortnite news (@FortniteBR) May 22, 2018

Fortnite news outlet Fortnite Intel reported that an Epic Games employee in the official French Fortnite Discord server stated that the Eye of the Storm item was not planned to be added into the game and will be removed shorty, as it is not ready for the game's live build.

(cover photo courtesy of Petser on Twitter)