Epic gave the Walking Dead hints of grand proportions, and the crowd went wild. The moment the cryptic image, coupled with the chilling text, “WALKERS INCOMING,” was dropped by the Fortnite account, pandemonium erupted in the comment feeds. Gamers dragged themselves into the comment section with demands, complaints, and any given million imaginative variants of what such a crossover could mean.
The tweet was strangely simple: just some zombie figures with the caption questioning: Across which Walking Dead Islands have the players been battling? And for a minute, the entire community situation just exploded with responses about skin requests and outright criticism about the current state of Fortnite. That’s Twitter behavior for you, me, and everything in between.
Right from the start, requests for Walker skins (or zombie costumes, for those not all that well-versed in TWD jargon) came pouring in. @Superdragn1 was to the point: “We need walker skins,” whereas @MyToasterBroke_ gave the reminder of, “Walkers skins when?” in a voice of that urgency and despair only a Fortnite fan can muster. Others, such as @Elpacma02450511, were still waiting for Clementine from Telltale’s Walking Dead games: “When will Clementine arrive? 🥺” with puppy eyes.
Not all smiles in the community. Artistic snapshots went from being excited to frustrated. @JeanHarvey goes full caps, screaming about SBMM: “@Fortnite Start by making the sbmm fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” On the other side, @kartonmen tacos into Fortnite’s audio woes with, “Fix the audio instead it’s terrible, actually it doesn’t even exist.” Ouch.
The creatives took the lead early. Several claimed great Walking Dead creative maps. @Colonel_Stan called “The Road to Alexandria,” by @HowtwobossFNC, the most authentic TWD experience in Fortnite, while @uwuimshane placed “Xeno Legend Roguelike” and “Lighthouse Zombies” equally high as UEFN creations. Then @slowdown_mj chimed in with a code for their zombie survival “#Fortnite WAVES 🧟3818-6205-0965” – that genuinely seems great.
But no Fortnite tweet ever ends without utterly irrelevant collab demands. @goldenpuddyt is already spamming for a Supernatural collab for the show’s 20th Anniversary, while @trexdodanoninho begs for more Stranger Things skins. Somehow @Melo13319 has managed to convert this into an Attack on Titan request thread, hashtags included. Beautiful chaos.
One of the standouts comes from @Darthhaggar: “Some of them are alright but the walkers can act a bit odd sometimes,” which hints at Epic possibly already testing the Walker AI behavior in creative maps. Is this a serious hint about a zombie mode coming to Fortnite? Players have been begging since the original Fortnitemares events for real zombies to make a return.
With The Walking Dead final spinoff airing and the Fortnite Halloween event season closing in, all signs that something big is on the horizon are present. Whether in the form of new skins (and Rick and Daryl haven’t been in the shop in a long while), an entire game mode, or extra creative tools, walkers are coming, and the Fortnite community never behaves at the time of such immense hype.
Now if you will excuse me, I am off to play that Lighthouse Zombies map everyone is talking about. For research. Definitely not because I am secretly scared to death about how brilliant some of these community creations are getting.
