Fortnite‘s Giant New Star Wars Season Will Let You Watch Tales of the Underworld Early

Fortnite, for amended oregon worse, has go the video crippled mecca for cross-promotional events. We saw it backmost successful 2019 when Star Wars unceremoniously announced that somehow Emperor Palpatine returned successful a galaxy-wide broadcast explicitly housed successful the conflict royale earlier moviegoers received that accusation successful the Rise of Skywalker opening rubric crawl. Now, Star Wars and Fortnite‘s upcoming lawsuit volition fto players cheque retired the archetypal 2 episodes of its forthcoming Disney+ animated series, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld.

Earlier today, Fortnite’s authoritative website posted a blog detailing each of the festivities it has successful store for players passim its archetypal seasonal Star Wars event, Fortnite: Galactic Battle, starting May 2. There are honestly so many details thrown astatine players with regular events, rewards, and freebies if they link their Epic and MyDisney accounts that it’s an info dump, overshadowing however to watercourse Tales of the Underworld for those who conscionable privation to ticker immoderate Star Wars early.

We’re beardown with the Force, truthful we sussed retired however to cheque retired Tales of the Underworld for those looking for however to bash that.

According to Fortnite, players tin leap into the Star Wars Watch Party land May 2 astatine 10 a.m. ET. How you bash truthful involves clicking the magnifying solid successful the apical near country of the surface aft logging in. Should that beryllium excessively overmuch of a headache, you tin besides hunt for it utilizing this code: 2124-6713-8076. What volition transpire is thing akin to a theater-in-the-park experience, lone virtual, wherever players tin prosecute successful lightsaber battles (with nary damage). At the aforesaid time, a elephantine surface shows them the archetypal 2 episodes of the series, starring fan-favorite quality Asajj Ventress.

Should watching the archetypal fewer episodes of Tales of the Underworld inspire you and yours to give Fortnite‘s Star Wars collab a try, you’ll find yourself spoiled for prime with however galore things the lawsuit volition person for you to termination time, scour for caller rewards, oregon trinkets. The halfway premise of Fortnite‘s latest Star Wars lawsuit sees the First Order instrumentality implicit its satellite and found assorted bases for players to propulsion backmost the baddies. Key among them are Darth Vader, Samurai, trading the volcanic wasteland of Mustafar for a Shogun’s palace.

Players tin bid with Palpatine, Rey, oregon Mace Windu and get their respective colored lightsabers, which let you to determination faster, leap higher, and not instrumentality autumn harm should you person it equipped. Beyond mastering unit techniques similar pull, throw, and lightsaber toss, players tin besides aviator TIE Fighters, X-Wings, and Star Destroyers.

The lawsuit besides offers players the accidental to get skins for Storm Troopers, Poe Dameron, General Grievous, Palpatine, an archetypal crippled quality named Apprentice Evie, and a nightmare fuel-inducing Wookiee skin. Granted, astir of these extras necessitate having capable real-life credits to acquisition Fortnite‘s Star Wars conflict walk to reap the rewards, truthful players volition person to hunt wrong their disposable income and program accordingly.

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