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Fortnite first-person mode and GTA wanted system hinted at by dataminers

Big data haul from the latest update

Marco Wutz

Fortnite first-person mode and GTA wanted system hinted at by dataminers
Fortnite first-person mode and GTA wanted system hinted at by dataminers /

Fortnite’s v23.30 update not only is full of exciting collab content, which you can check out in the patch notes, but also contains a whole host of interesting secrets that data miners are currently digging through.

It seems like Epic Games is working on a few big additions to Fortnite behind the scenes. Inside the latest update, data miners found hints at two exciting features: a first-person mode and a GTA-style wanted system.

Fortnite getting a first-person mode has been a consistent rumor for quite some time now, as new clues hinting at it pop up again and again under the game’s hood. The newest hint even seems to point at first-person mode coming to Fortnite’s core battle royale game mode.

Shiina, a well-known source for Fortnite leaks and data mining reports, believes the first-person mode to be released in 2023.

Fortnite has been a third-person shooter from the beginning and part of its appeal is the high level of customization it offers for player characters – a feature that would be severely undermined by the existence of a first-person mode, in which players can no longer see their own character.

However, Epic Games also introduced a game mode without building in 2022, doing away with another core mechanic, so it seems like they really aren’t all that concerned with giving users additional options on how they want to play the game.

The other big item was discovered by HYPEX, another reliable data miner specialized on Fortnite. They claim to have found information on Fortnite adding a wanted system in the style of GTA, which includes the ability to pay gold to reduce heat on yourself.

We currently don’t have any details on when these systems arrive, if at all, so take this information with a grain of salt.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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