A recent rumor suggests that Lara Croft may appear as a playable character sheet in Fortnite.
With characters like Master Chief and Kratos, it’s no surprise that Epic Games wants to expand the crossover range of skins. Each of these skins comes from different publishers and developers, so the expansion to Tomb Raider will mean some communication with Square Enix.
This new skin will add to the long list of publishers with skins already in play, such as Microsoft’s CEO, Sony’s Kratos, Disney’s The Mandalorian and AMC’s The Walking Dead.
According to a Twitter post by popular leak Mang0e, there are new strings in the game code that refer to ‘Typhoon’, which will be a female character with reactive styles.
Commentators among the tweets shared some of their speculations, saying that the character also includes Aloy from Horizon: Zero Dawn, or even Samus from Metroid.
Since this skin has reactive styles, it is possible that the skin will become bloodier as the player inflicts damage, similar to the functioning of the health system in Tomb Raider.
To the fire adds another tweet from the official Tomb Raider Twitter, depicting a pickaxe, a girl (Lara Croft) and a bow, teasing a possible Fortnite look.
It may also just be a preview of Tomb Raider in general, but the timing with this leak is definitely interesting. The current season of Fortnite will end on March 16, 2021, so we’ll find out if these rumors are true soon.
This is obviously not a confirmation that Lara Croft will be coming to Fortnite, but we can still hope as information indicates her appearance that will come after the game.
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