Superman Arrives in Fortnite Battle Royale During Star Wars Live Event, as Death Star Detonates and Destruction Rains Down

Fortnite has conscionable wrapped up its latest explosive unrecorded event, detonating the Death Star looming implicit the Island and welcoming DC Comics leader Superman successful the process.

Tonight's event, Death Star Sabotage, saw players infiltrate the Empire's afloat operational conflict presumption that has hovered menacingly implicit the Fortnite conflict royale Island passim its Star Wars mini-season. Happily, and possibly unsurprisingly, players were capable to halt the station's deadly abstraction laser from obliterating the game's representation — though not without causing a spot of harm successful the process.

As demolition rained down, the event's closing moments saw Superman get — presumably to effort and assistance with cleanable up duties during the game's incoming superhero-themed season, which begins successful conscionable a fewer hours' time.

Fortnite's large Star Wars lawsuit began successful orbit astir the game's conflict royale Island, giving players a uncommon glimpse astatine the game's mounting from extracurricular its accustomed boundaries. Fortnite's mounting exists arsenic a bubble of world floating done the multiverse (which handily allows immoderate quality from immoderate franchise to crook up astatine immoderate time!) and here, players were capable to aviator X-Wings and TIE-Fighters to stroke up orbiting Star Destroyers and prosecute successful amusive dogfights. In the continued lack of a Star Wars: Battlefront 3, this was a amusive riff connected its abstraction battles to get things started.

The enactment past swiftly moved to wrong the Death Star itself, arsenic Fortnite heroes Jonesy (Troy Baker) and Hope (Suzie Yeung) led players done the bowels of the station, initially disguised arsenic Stormtroopers and their captives. Ultimately, players recovered themselves successful an brushwood with Star Wars' Emperor (was that the dependable of Sheev Palpatine himself, Ian McDiarmid?), and capable to flight the Death Star arsenic it exploded.

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In a motion to Fortnite's 2021 unrecorded lawsuit Operation Sky Fire (which besides ended successful a abstraction presumption exploding supra the game's Island), players were initially near to observe their triumph — until the realisation that immense flaming chunks of said abstraction presumption were present raining down connected their conflict royale home. And here, 1 of these chunks smashed consecutive into the glowing Rift Gate utilized to entree the tone realm by Fortnite's existent antihero Daigo, unleashing its untold power.

The event's last moments spot players backmost connected the Island, mysterious vigor present crackling astir them. (Will this beryllium the mentation for wherefore superpowers present beryllium successful the adjacent conflict royale season? Quite possibly.) Meanwhile, Superman is seen watching the Island from afar, arsenic it is flooded by tone realm energy. The proposition here, of course, is that Superman volition beryllium swooping successful to help.

If you weren't in-game astatine the time, you tin ticker a signaling of the afloat Death Star Sabotage ngo below:

Fortnite x Star Wars: Galactic Battle Death Star Sabotage Event pic.twitter.com/3EeBvjVmpI

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