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Don’t anger the hamster.
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In February 2023, Fortnite stirred up some drama by including a brand new spray titled Hamster Cabbie. This spray options slightly mischievous-looking hamster character pulling a easy crossed-arms pose. Nonetheless, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than followers of Overwatch 2 began to note one thing extraordinarily suspicious relating to the art work of this spray.
Hamster Cabbie seemed to be a whole hint over from a twig of Hammond, Overwatch 2’s hamster character identified for piloting a ball-shaped mech because the Tank Hero ‘Wrecking Ball’. Whereas some took this as a teaser of a possible crossover collaboration between the 2 video games, this doesn’t look like the case. This is because of Fortnite commissioning particular person artists for a lot of of their in-game sprays and loading screens, so this was probably a transfer pulled on the artist’s behalf with out Fortnite’s information.
The Hamster Cabbie spray has since been up to date with new art work that holds the same form to the unique. Nonetheless, it’s authentic sufficient by way of pose and positioning to not be one other traced piece. A comparability of this replace could be seen under in a put up by trusted Overwatch leaks and information outlet OWCavalry:
Sadly, Overwatch followers nonetheless have a bone to choose with Hamster Cabbie, as even in its newest type, it nonetheless seems like Hammond –extra particularly, his Junker and Mayham skins. It’s tough to disclaim the similarities right here, with these skins for Hammond involving a blue (Junker) or purple (Mayham) colourful mohawk, earring, and eyepatch masking the identical eye that Hamster Cabbie has scars on.
Whereas the spray is a particular enchancment from the unique, it’s virtually a disgrace to surprise why Fortnite didn’t simply choose to create one thing distinctive as a substitute. In the event that they needed to remake the spray involving a hamster, they may’ve not less than made it stand out someway with unnatural, quirky blue fur or a brand-new angled pose as a substitute of choosing a front-on portrait. It’s not like loopy colorations are an oddity to Fortnite anyway, however as a substitute, they select to stay with the identical pure colour palette.
Altering issues drastically may have assured the drama to die down for good, as there could be no seen hint left of Hammond to match Cabbie to. Sadly, Fortnite’s little rodent pal nonetheless seems a bit like Overwatch’s Champion of Junker City, and it doesn’t look like followers shall be forgetting this any time quickly. They’ve already taken to the feedback of OWCavalry’s Twitter put up to poke enjoyable on the scenario and name Fortnite out for taking a ‘low-cost’ method to fixing issues reasonably than remaking the spray fully.
With these newest developments, evidently a collab between the battle royale and team-based goal shooter now has even much less of a risk to happen sooner or later, regardless of assumptions for such an occasion being extraordinarily low within the first place.