In case you’ve missed it, Can You Pet the Dog is among the most necessary Twitter accounts going in the intervening time. Not solely is it cataloguing the entire games in which you’ll be able to (or can’t) lavish affection in your furry buddies, nevertheless it’s additionally encouraging some builders to rectify their earlier errors. Which is why now you can formally pet the canine in Fortnite.
Fortnite’s latest patch dropped earlier as we speak, introducing some new LTMs, a few modifications to the mysterious digsites, and new rarities for the Infantry Rifle. More importantly than all of that, nevertheless, is a single line beneath gameplay which reads “you can now pet the dog…and other pets.”
Pets have been launched to the game as an alternative choice to Back Bling at first of Season 6, permitting you to stride into battle with a chameleon, a dragon, or a canine in your again. For some time, they couldn’t do far more than go searching excitedly (or growl once you scoped in on an enemy), however all that modifications as we speak.
As of patch 8.4.0, approaching a teammate who has a pet outfitted now gives a button immediate supplying you with the choice to “pet” the animal in entrance of you. As you possibly can see within the tweet embedded under, it’s a barely crude animation, a bit extra of a slap than a stroke, however hey, it’s a begin.
New: Following an replace, now you can pet the canine in Fortnite pic.twitter.com/U1nkfHIHSr
— Can You Pet the Dog? (@CanYouPetTheDog) April 17, 2019
The Twitter account solely started final month, however has already gathered 175,000 followers to its trigger. So far, it’s catalogued petting from games starting from Far Cry Primal to Minecraft.
Lest we neglect: You cannot pet the JPEG dog
This isn’t the primary time {that a} ranking from Can You Pet the Dog has inspired a speedy replace. Earlier this month, the builders of Enter the Gungeon added a customized petting animation to their game after the account identified that you simply have been unable to supply sufficient affection to your four-legged buddies.
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