SypherPK Reveals ‘Fortnite’ ICON Skin Ahead Of Season 4 Launch

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Mine just cleared out, they added the heading for week 4, not the quests, likely just to clear the yellow out for everyone with it. Yellow writing at a named location indicates that you’ll discover the greatest treasure on the map, but you’ll also likely face the most intense combat early on. Sold and shipped by fifth sun.

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Fortnite is back with another ICON skin based on a popular Fortnite content creator, this time SypherPK, a well-known figure in the community who has gotten what is apparently the most elaborate ICON yet.

SypherPK just showed off his new ICON skin on stream, which you can see above, which has a few different variants to it. As ever, the ICON skins for creators usually have some versions that look like them in real life, then a “superhero-ified” version that looks more like something you’d normally see in Fortnite.

Revealing the skin to over 140,000 viewers, SypherPK was emotional as he presented his own skin for the first time.

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There is in fact a street clothes default skin, but the main skin has him in his signature Oni mask, and the skin becomes reactive with its back bling as you amass kills. The pickaxe and his armor will glow and become aflame like the back bling mask as you get more kills. The entire skin will transform over the course of the game with more and more kills. He also has a strut/flex emote and his own original soundtrack with the emote.

There are also four free cosmetics you can earn as a part of the ICON series for Sypher, a spray, an emoticon, an animated weapon wrap and a loading screen, a first for an ICON. Sypher is also getting an ICON combat arena map launching tomorrow, where you can earn two of the cosmetics, the spray and the loading screen, plus XP, through quests.

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We have had a number of creators get ICON skins in the past, Ninja, LoserFruit, TheGrefg, Bugha, Lachlan and Lazerbeam. Fortnite also considers its athlete and musician skins ICON skins, from Naomi Osaka to Ariana Grande. But with SypherPK, I think we now have more Fortnite creators than we do those other two categories. It remains somewhat unclear how these deals work with the real-life people who get these skins, whether it’s a revenue share, a one time payment for their likeness, or some combination of those. As the Metaverse continues to approach, everyone is very aware that these skins may be used for a huge variety of Fortnite and Fortnite-adjacent projects for the indefinite future.

Sypher PK’s skin will be on sale on September 22nd next week.

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