Battle Royale’ Challenges Leak Online, But There’s A Catch

Epic is making life a little bit harder for dataminers this season of Fortnite: Battle Royale. It used to be that we’d see new challenges leaked on a regular basis, and that they would line up pretty well with the challenges that actually showed up in game. Not so anymore: the lists are further diverging from reality, whether that’s intentional obfuscation or just the need to shift things around for whatever reason. That doesn’t mean they don’t offer us any information, however, so let’s take a look at the leaked challenges that dataminers have found for Season 6, Week 4 of Fortnite: Battle Royale. Credit goes to Lucas7Yoshi over on Twitter. 

Free

• Dance with others to raise the Disco Ball near Loot Lake (0/1)
• Search an Ammo Box in different named locations (0/7)
• Deal damage to opponents in a single match (0/1000) (HARD)

Paid

• Land at Greasy Grove (0/1)
• Dance on top of a Clock Tower (0/1)
• Complete Timed Trials (0/5) (HARD)
• Eliminate opponents near any of the Corrupted Areas (0/3

At least two of these challenges is definitely not making its way to the game this week. “Dance with others to raise the Disco Ball near Loot Lake” is an old Season 4 challenge, and likely a placeholder–Loot Lake does not even technically exist anymore, and so it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see that challenge show up.

Timed Trials, also, is likely not going to be there for the final list. We saw the return of Season 5’s little mini-courses last week, and so this week we might see something like shooting galleries, which were leaked last week but didn’t actually appear in-game. Doorbells have also appeared on the outsides of all the houses in the game, and so we can expect the difficult-sounding “ring the doorbell of a house with an opponent inside of it” challenge to make an appearance.

Other than that, plenty of these sounds plausible, and I’m sort of looking to the shadowy mess that Corrupted Areas will become if that challenge actually comes to fruition. Searching ammo boxes in different named locations is high up on the list for most boring challenge in the game yet.

So we’ll see which ones of these actually show up, and whether or not any of my guesses come to fruition. Regardless, it’s clear that it’s becoming a little bit harder to predict challenges ahead of…