Fortnite planned basketball, survival simulator modes
A basketball mini-game and an open-world survival simulator have been in development within Fortnite.
The details are the latest to come to light as part of documentation revealed in the Epic Games vs Apple courtroom drama, and which fit into previous leaks.
Plans for an NBA tie-in mode, including a LeBron James skin, are detailing an internal report dated June 2020 – though leaks suggest these are still coming.
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These plans saw Epic prototyping an arcade basketball mini-game for launch within Fortnite’s no-combat Party Royale mode, with dribbling and shooting gameplay plus 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 variants possible. There are no mini-games of this nature available in the mode at present.
All of this was supposed to launch last October – but like other leaked content we detailed earlier, appears to have been pushed back.
Another, more robust mode is also apparently on the cards. Previously revealed by Fortnite leaker Hypex, this is described as an “open world simulation sandbox”. Files for it currently sit within Fortnite’s code, though there’s no word on when it will publicly launch.