As with Season 4, Fortnite: Battle Royale Season 5 has an ultimate prize. Last season we had the Blockbuster Challenge, which asked us to complete seven full weeks of challenges and rewarded us with a mystery legendary skin for out troubles, along with special narrative-based loading screens along the way. In Season 5, it’s the same thing, only this time it’s called the “Road Trip” Challenge. And I think I have a pretty good idea what it’s going to look like, or at least what broad aesthetic genre it fits into. It’s always possible Epic is floating a red herring down my stream, but at this point I’m willing to go out on a limb.
The key is in the name: the “Road Trip” challenge. Just like in Season 4, this corresponds to a questline in Fortnite: Save the World, and this one just so happens to be pretty solidly Western-themed. Let’s take a look at some of the the characters from that storyline below:
So yes, Western-themed. It was widely speculated that we would be getting some older-style Western-themed locales in Season 5 of Battle Royale, but as it turns out the new desert biome has a much more modern feel to it. That doesn’t mean we won’t be getting it at some point, however. The map changed a fair amount over the course of Season 4, and Epic seems to only be doubling down on that idea with Season 5. Day 1 has brought some pretty extensive changes, and I get the feeling the whole time rift thing is going to bring some of those mined Wild West assets into the game yet.
My guess is that this is going to coincide with the Road Trip skin, and that said Road Trip skin is going to be Western-themed in some way. It helps, of course, that people like Westerns and generally speaking want to wear dusters. The specifics of the skin are still up in the air, but I’m hoping for a duster.
The Blockbuster Skin– which turned out to be called “The Visitor–” was a bit of a mystery. The name made it sound like it was tied into the movie sub-theme of the season, but it turned out to be a sort of alien living inside the Dusty Divot meteorite. I’d expect something similar with Road Trip, and we’ll likely have some better guesses as to its origins next week.
