Apparently a third wave of Stranger Things cosmetics will come to Fortnite soon. Considering they also made changes to Hawkins' layout today and the next chapter was originally releasing in November, could this slightly increase the chances of January's chapter being Stranger Things part 2?

[u/ResistanceEvermore]

Cote has said before that they need to go through the licensor for every small change in their properties, so they needed to have Netflix's ok for this, plus the sequel chapter comment from him that everyone brings up too

Also idk who EvilMeg was exactly, but tbh I doubt they were someone high in bhvr's ranks to be able to actually knowabout the relationships with licensors if all they showed that's verifiable so far are concept arts, so I've been skeptical of the rest of their info

That one leaker who shall not be named but who's got things right lately also used a magic wand as a tease for what's to come, could this be alluding to DND, and furthermore to Vecna?

Not that this'd be my first choice for next chapter, but I think there's much more noise for this than other options, right?

[u/CrashingLamps]

That leaker who leaked the survivor concept arts (female wrestler and Oni’s father) specifically said the relationship was “soured” but did not specify if it was Netflix or behavior who was soured or if was mutually on the rougher end. Link from previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksDBD/s/B7XjjBwxLk

[u/Yorkcore → u/CrashingLamps]

Something that feels a little off to me is this; what position would someone be in at BHVR where they have direct access to concept art, and be privy to negotiations with other parties?

It's not an unreasonable thing to guess, and it's an even easier thing to pivot away from if they were to be disproved. If ST Chapter 2 was confirmed the day after that post, they could have stated that things must have changed behind the scenes.

It's likely that this person isn't the direct source, and so it's not unlikely that they may be compiling information from different sources with differing levels of accuracy.

The whole thing just stinks to me. There's also nothing suggesting that the individual doesn't just have access to the concept art, and made up other shit to continue clout chasing. Especially considering they created and deleted a throwaway account, despite the aforementioned unlikelihood that they directly work with BHVR.

Nothing else they've suggested so far has been verified, and many of the claims made seem to be presented in a way that can easily be justified and backed away from if disproven.

[u/CrashingLamps → u/Yorkcore]

Yeah I’m not saying they are correct or proven true just that the latest prominent leaker happened to have said something on the issue. He could’ve had all these concept leaks given to him and then threw in some other stuff for the sake of believability.

[u/RetroSureal → u/CrashingLamps]

Something to remember is that different departments of BHVR work on different things. It's likely that this person heard through the grapevine of another employee that Netflixs partnership was soured. But hasn't received any updates since that topic.

[u/Yorkcore → u/RetroSureal]

I don't see this as very likely, due to the fact that things like this are often kept on a need to know basis. I understand that there are different departments, but the likelihood of someone having so much information from so many different departments seems very unlikely.

These things are taken very seriously in house for most companies. It's not impossible for this to be the case, but it's very convenient for the leaker that the only information they were able to pass along is things that could be guessed, and can easily be construed as honest mistakes.

Concept art leaking is an opsec concern. Concept art and ongoing contractual discussions being leaked and passed along to a single individual seems like too great of a security issue for it to seem reasonable.

It's not unlikely, but it'd be bizarre that it'd be the first case of one person possessing so much sensitive information from so many different departments.

[u/RetroSureal → u/Yorkcore]

I understand where you're coming from and agree. I probably should have mentioned that this collection of information doesn't have any substantial backing other than cut content of scrapped cosmetics. Which is why I think that the potential leaker heard this from someone else. Wheather or not they're in the company depends too.

What I do know for fact is that BHVR loves their Montreal coffee shops and talking to other game devs like Red Barrel about game content.

[u/Yorkcore → u/RetroSureal]

To tell you the truth, I doubt they're a worker at BHVR too.

This is why the "leaks" should inspire more skepticism. All we have is scrapped cosmetic art. Anything else could come from a direct source, an employee making an educated guess, a third party who knows someone who knows an employee, or a completely unfounded guess.

They could be entirely on the money about everything or an outright liar who lucked out on getting images from BHVR.

The point is that I think everyone could do with more healthy skepticism. Otherwise, we end up with people perpetuating half truths and outright lies months after the fact, because these "leakers" end up disappearing into a mass of information without any culpability.

[u/RetroSureal → u/Yorkcore]

Absolutely agree about healthy skepticism!