Fortniteâs Chapter 4 Season 3 has just started, and thereâs already an exciting update on the horizon. Bringing us the alleged news is the popular Fortnite news source Shiina on Twitter, who revealed that the MK-Alpha Assault Rifle will soon become available. This was later rumoured by iFireMonkey with even more details about the weapon. This gun represents a direct callback to a fan-favorite, the MK-Seven Assault Rifle. Hereâs everything we are predicting about this exciting new weapon .
After Shiina teased the MK-Alpha Assault Rifle in a June 9 tweet, players were excited to find out more. The initial reaction was positive overall, but more details were needed to gauge MK-Sevenâs successor.
The new MK-Alpha Assault Rifle will be added to Battle Royale in a future update! pic.twitter.com/1erY98oHtB
Enter iFireMonkey with a banger tweet a few days later, adding to the rumoured news and dropping more info on the so called weapon. His tweet thread goes into detail to describe where they think the gun drops and even estimated stats.
The new supposed MK-Alpha AR is a drop from the upcoming jungle boss Relik, who uses the Wildguard model. As expected, the gun comes in a full slew of rarities, from common to mythic.
As the season continues we will get a Jungle NPC Boss version of Relik which uses the Wildguard variant. Wildguard Relik has a special NPC only emote he does which is some sort of surveying the area type of emote. When defeated, he drops the MK-Alpha Assault Rifle. pic.twitter.com/mdqiyJyW74
The community reaction to the more detailed thread has been mixed. Some players love the idea of the new AR. However, a lot of them worry that itâs âStill gonna be OP afâ as one player puts it, while others call it “lazy” and derivative.
While the stats that iFireMonkey leaked are as of yet unconfirmed, it looks like the new AR is going to have slightly toned down damage compared to its predecessor. Looking them over, itâs interesting that it does the most damage at close range. Hereâs the full breakdown as presented in the Twitter thread:
Note the damage and reload time markup between common and mythic variants. Getting your hands on a rarer version is going to be a game-changer for sure. None of these stats are final though, and the weapon has been datamined as Weapon ID âTestWeap2â. This means that they are still subject to change pending its release.
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