Summary
Fortnite’sRocket Racingmight be receiving a new mode called Death Race in the near future. This mode puts a new spin onRocket Racing’s traditional racing format.
Fortnite’sRocket Racingsees players race around tracks in a format that’s pretty traditional to the racing genre. Similar to other games, effectively using boosts is a core skill needed for good lap times. Avoiding walls, obstacles, and other things that might slow down a racer are crucial as well. While this is already an important part ofRocket Racing, it looks like the game’s developers have plans for a much more obstacle-focused approach with this recently leaked mode.
Fortnitedataminer BeastFNCreative revealed thatRocket Racingwill likely receive a mode called Death Race sometime in the near future. This mode will feature its own maps, which seem to be much more difficult to complete than the regular ones. Death Race implements various objects, like spikes, throughout the track that the player must avoid to survive. Thedataminer posted a video showing a work-in-progress versionof one of Death Race’s tracks, and the map is lined with lethal spikes, almost from beginning to end. BeastFNCreative speculated that this track was an early version of a Death Race level, so players might see a significantly different design once Death Race is officially released. Since this is a leak, no release date has been confirmed for the new mode, but it’s possible that it could debut withRocket Racing’s first major update, which was previously confirmed for early next year.
FollowingRocket Racing’s reveal at The Game Awards, its development team confirmed that the racing game will receive its Season 1 update sometime in early 2024. During this time frame,Rocket Racingwill also receive speed run leaderboards, additional customization options, and creator-made tracks. If the new Death Race mode is ready for release, this seems like a possible window for the development team to unveil the new format.Rocket Racingis only one ofFortnite’s successful new modes, as the game’s enduring popularity seems to not be dying down anytime soon.
LEGO Fortnite, meanwhile, has been even more successful thanRocket Racing.LEGO Fortnite’s player count managed to overtakeFortnite Battle Royalefor a short time. While some worried thatFortnitewould stretch itself too thin with these new additions to the core game, it seems to have paid off. At the time of writing, nearly 100,000 players are split betweenRocket Racing’s ranked and unranked modes, withLEGO Fortniteboasting over 250,000 concurrent players. Thanks to this success,Fortnitemay have plans for even more additions to the base game’s experience.
Somefans have already begun to daydream about whatFortnitecould addin the future. There are still plenty of untapped genres, such as a sports game, a fighting game, or even a survival-horror game. Thanks toFortnite’s massive pool of resources and established success over the years, fans have good reason to hope for more interesting updates to their favorite game.
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