Fortnite Is Bringing Back the Infinity Blade, Probably the Most Hated Weapon in the Battle Royale's History

Fortnite is thawing retired the Infinity Blade, arguably the game's astir arguable limb ever, for an quality successful the adjacent play of its OG conflict royale mode.

Beginning this Thursday, December 11, Fortnite OG volition displacement to Chapter 1 Season 7, and fto players acquisition the game's beloved retro play wherever each the snowfall turned up and we got to alert astir successful planes.

It was a superb season, though 1 that volition spell down successful Fortnite past arsenic 1 of the astir divisive — arsenic Epic Games besides introduced the Mythic-quality Infinity Blade sword that was notoriously overpowered. Only 1 Infinity Blade spawned each match, and lobbies turned into an implicit messiness implicit who nabbed the game-breaking point first.

I retrieve enjoying the little disruption to the game's meta, which was turned connected its caput and has ne'er seen thing rather similar it since (perhaps for bully reason). Because, aft important outcry, the Infinity Blade was made unplayable and virtually frozen into its pedestal aft lone a fewer days, ne'er to beryllium utilized again — until now.

Epic Games has not said erstwhile it intends to unvault the Infinity Blade, oregon for however long. It's imaginable the limb volition beryllium offered astatine afloat spot for a little period, oregon it could person been rebalanced — for now, players person been near to speculate.

Fortnite OG's Chapter 1 Season 7 announcement. Image credit: Epic Games.

For now, astatine least, players tin expect everything other the archetypal Chapter 1 Season 7 featured to get aboriginal this week, including items specified arsenic balloons and the quality to redeploy your glider, negating autumn damage, arsenic good arsenic the fan-favorite X-4 Stormwing planes. Fresh areas of the representation see Polar Peak — location to the Ice King, the cheery Happy Hamlet and the Frosty Flights airbase.

Remixed outfits see the feline-tailed Lynx (later the emotion involvement for swole feline Meowscles), onesie-wearing quality Onesie, and Fortnite's battle-scarred instrumentality connected Father Christmas himself: Sergeant Winter. Is the crippled truly giving up its accidental to reskin The Ice King? For now, it seems truthful — though rumors person suggested we whitethorn beryllium seeing much of him successful the adjacent future.

It is, arsenic always, a engaged clip for Fortnite — which precocious launched its large caller Chapter 7 update for the game's main Battle Royale and Zero Build modes. The crippled besides precocious played big to a large Kill Bill crossover, wherever players could ticker Tarantino's caller animated series inserted into Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. And conscionable past night, we learned that Percy Jackson was besides coming to the game.

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