Mysterious New Fortnite Weapon Leaked

Fortnite Season 3 arrived on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices earlier this month alongside some massive map changes, Aquaman, man-eating sharks, and plenty of new content. That said, this is old news. What everyone in the Fortnite community is now talking about is a newly leaked shotgun, codenamed "Dragon." And as you could probably derive from its name, it's an Epic and Legendary weapon with some weird quirks.

The current speculation is the gun will essentially be a flamethrower, or at least shoot bullets that explode or spread the fire. Why is this the speculation? Well, because a previous rumor about Season 3 that surfaced online months before the season actually dropped got everything right about the new season, except one thing: it said environmental destruction in the form of fire was coming. That hasn't really happened, but it looks like that could change soon, starting with this shotgun.

Below, you can check out the files that mention the shotgun, which was discovered by prominent dataminer HypeX while digging through the files of the game's latest update.

This is strange and i just noticed it, there's another shotgun in the works.. the codename of it is "Dragon", and will come in EPIC & LEGENDARY rarities, here are the current stats they set for it (also its weird that it has 4 bullets but also costs 4 bullets per fire) pic.twitter.com/6KFWGX7ccx
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) June 25, 2020

As always, everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, especially the speculation derived from the leak. While datamining leaks have proven quite reliable in the past, they can also be misleading. At the very least, remember nothing here is official, and at the moment of publishing, Epic Games has not commented on the leak in any capacity. Further, it's unlikely it will.

Fortnite is available, for free, via the PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. Further, and come later this year, it will also be made available on PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Posted: Jun 29, 2020 5:05 pm
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fortnite-season-3-leak-weapon-gun-dragon-shotgun/

Comments

RyanPosted: Tue. Jun 30, 2020

This shotgun has some crazy damage numbers...

ifconfigPosted: Tue. Jun 30, 2020

Daniel This is Strange? Although the weapon should do say 150 damage it will do 3 to the head for you but 270 to the head for your opponent, that's the way of fortshite.

Doesn't make sense. That's how it's been for a while now. Game is ass.

ifconfigPosted: Tue. Jun 30, 2020

Another shotgun... maybe the developers need to be introduced to other types of weapons?

JoeIPosted: Tue. Jun 30, 2020

JE Yay another shotgun :| ..havent touch FN in a while

Literally like me, FN is boring now.

JoeIPosted: Tue. Jun 30, 2020

Game is proper boring now, don't enjoy it one bit. But I guess its good for the players who still do.

JosePosted: Mon. Jun 29, 2020

Yay another shotgun :| ..havent touch FN in a while

DanielPosted: Mon. Jun 29, 2020

This is Strange? Although the weapon should do say 150 damage it will do 3 to the head for you but 270 to the head for your opponent, that's the way of fortshite.