Fortnite Delulu is back so you can keep talking smack for the rest of the year
I have great news for all of you Fortnite Delulu fans, as the game is officially sticking around – until the end of the year, at least. After just a couple of weeks, Epic Games initially removed the feature, but the carnage that comes with the game mode, combined with the number of you who love it, saw Delulu make a fast comeback.
Done right, proximity chat can be highly entertaining in multiplayer skirmishes. FPS game stalwarts like Call of Duty: Warzone do it well, with my initial matches of the mode’s 2022 rebrand seeing me find random players and form temporary alliances. Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders is surely set to benefit from this, too. However, when Fortnite Delulu mode dropped on Friday, September 19, 2025, it was a curious thing to watch.
Naturally, there was some level of toxicity, resulting in “thousands” of Fortnite Delulu bans in its opening weekend, which is highly unsurprising, as the whole point is to interact with random players to form alliances. Still, I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t sad to write about Fortnite Delulu being gone mere days ago, so I’m thrilled to see Epic make a quick change.
If you want to form alliances and team up for a cheeky dub, proximity chat is key to assembling a squad of your own. Epic Games basically made it okay for ‘teaming’ to happen in-game. If you’re not familiar with this, it’s where two squads form up to purposely grief other players, sharing information like player pings and item spawns with each other. In the standard battle royale game playlist or Zero Build, this is a bannable action as teams shouldn’t be using it as an advantage to win – it sure is fun to throw the rules out of the window.
Yes, as you probably already know from its first couple of weekends, players messaging and speaking to each other can make your match a living hell, but you just need to embrace the chaos and dish out some carnage of your own. However, Delulu doesn’t feature any mechanics to let you invite people to your squad.
Instead, it’s just an agreement not to blast each other on sight. It’s on you to stay on your toes, as only one of you can win, so at some point, every alliance must reach a grizzly end. I can only imagine how many friendships will come and go throughout the rest of the year. Who knows, perhaps Epic will even opt to make the mode a mainstay in 2026.
Elsewhere in the land of the free Switch game, the Fortnite Kpop Demon Hunters collaboration is live, and the skins for Mira, Rumi, and Zoey look fantastic. Just don’t talk to me about the fact that none of their songs are part of the collaboration.
