{"id":122370,"date":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/fortnite_adds_free_wakanda_forever_emote"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:45:00","slug":"fortnite-adds-free-wakanda-forever-emote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/fortnite-adds-free-wakanda-forever-emote\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Adds Free &#8216;Wakanda Forever&#8217; Emote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/951c789959432\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/951c789959432\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/951c789959432\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Starting today, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> has issued a bunch of &#8220;Wakanda Forever Challenges&#8221; to all players, and the prize is the badass Wakanda Forever emote &#8211; a tribute to the actor who played the Wakandan King, Chadwick Boseman, who died earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Players who complete the challenges before January 12th will receive the emote for free. <a href=\"https:\/\/fortniteinsider.com\/how-to-get-the-wakandan-salute-black-panther-fortnite-emote-for-free\/\">Fortnite Insider<\/a> has the scoop on what the challenges will involve:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Play Matches (10)<br \/>&#8211; Outlast Opponents (500)<br \/>&#8211; Play Duo or Squad Matches (5)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The emote might not be the only Black Panther-related goodie that Fortnite players receive. In a cryptic emoji tweet, the Fortnite Twitter account hinted at what could be the addition of some new characters, including a black cat:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc08\u200d\u2b1b\ud83c\udf1f\ud83d\udcf7<\/span>\u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortniteGame\/status\/1340703509793091585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Which characters do you think these emojis correspond to? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, Fortnite has issued a bunch of &#8220;Wakanda Forever Challenges&#8221; to all players, and the prize is the badass Wakanda Forever emote &#8211; a tribute to the actor who played the Wakandan King, Chadwick Boseman, who died earlier this year. Players who complete the challenges before January 12th will receive the emote for free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}