We knew Fall Guys content was heading to Fortnite‘s creative mode, but now a unique obstacle course looms over the island in Battle Royale, as the bumbling bean obstacle stages just dropped today. The crossover is ready to reward eager players with loot for their swift Bean parkouring skills.
Players will need to find Golden Bean statues on the island in order to get started. You’ll then be whisked away from the murder and mayhem of Battle Royale for a brief run through the obstacle course. Conquer the courses as fast as possible to get better loot to take back to the island! Of course, once The Storm moves in, the course becomes off limits. Completing quests while running the obstacle course can also earn you a unique Fall Guys back bling and music track.
Looking the part – Fortnite characters get Bean makeovers
The cute thing about this is that your skin will be “Bean’d” when you visit the obstacle course. A large number of the Fortnite original characters have been given Bean forms to take into both this fun crossover, and the full Fall Guys islands you can visit elsewhere in Fortnite. These operate similarly to the Lego versions of characters, with the results being extremely mixed.
Epic has also added a bunch of Fall Guys Islands that play more like traditional modes of Fall Guys. The team at Mediatonic Labs helped make these, similar to how Psionix helped make the Rocket Racing levels.
So, what’s next for Fall Guys?
As for the future of Fall Guys at large, it’s been an incredibly rough time for the team at Mediatonic. Publisher Epic Games laid off hundreds of employees in 2023, and while an Epic statement to Kotaku clarified the entire team at Mediatonic wasn’t laid off, it’s clear the studio was still hit hard.
Given the nature of both games are so compatible here, one would hope Epic values the team over at Mediatonic, and has more plans for the Fall Guys folks going forward.
Published: Aug 6, 2024 01:15 pm