Fortnite’s Star Wars season will let you fly an X-Wing and use Force Lightning

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Fortnite’s caller Star Wars-themed play volition adhd caller locations, weapons, skins, vehicles, and adjacent caller Force powers to the crippled erstwhile it kicks disconnected connected Friday, according to a blog post.

The Fortnite island’s caller Star Wars spots see a First Order base, a smuggler hub called the Outpost Enclave, a Resistance basal with X-Wings, and a dedicated determination wherever you tin find Darth Vader Samurai (a real and precise bully skin successful the game). The locations look similar they’ll beryllium worthy dropping at; you’ll beryllium capable to alert the X-Wings, for example, and defeating Darth Vader Samurai successful conflict volition nett you a reddish lightsaber and a Force powerfulness that lets you propulsion it.

Speaking of Force powers, a hologram of Rey volition besides beryllium connected the island, and she tin springiness you a Force propulsion power. Find the hologram of Emperor Palpatine and you tin get Force lightning. If you privation to really play arsenic Sheev Palpatine, he’ll beryllium 1 of the skins you tin unlock successful the season’s conflict pass, which besides includes Poe Dameron and General Grievous.

Throughout the season, Epic volition marque changes to the representation similar adding much Star Wars characters to find oregon letting you usage a Star Destroyer’s turbolaser to blast your opponents. And connected June 7th, determination volition beryllium a live, in-game lawsuit wherever players volition “take the combat to Emperor Palpatine.”

The caller season, archetypal teased in April, volition besides diagnostic Darth Jar Jar. It each builds upon Fortnite’s erstwhile Star Wars tie-ins, including many other skins and the debut of an exclusive clip of The Rise of Skywalker earlier the movie deed theaters. Epic and Disney are besides offering a escaped Stormtrooper outfit if you nexus your Epic and MyDisney accounts, which the 2 companies accidental is simply a “first step” up of the planned “universe” they’re building.