12), according to sister website TechRadar. District court judge ruled in Epic's favor regarding its Apple lawsuit on Friday (Sept. In 2020, Epic protested against both Apple and Google over direct payments for mobile apps. Off-screen, Fortnite maker Epic Games has been busy as well. If you picked up alien artifacts through the season, you could add new styles to a customizable alien skin called Kymera. Season 2, Chapter 7's revamped Battle Pass system, using stars instead of levels, included numerous allusions to space, such as a Spock emote, a flying saucer glider, 'abduction' and black hole-themed 'inversion' contrails, and a cute 'unzipped' emote that evokes a common alien trope. You could explore the mothership to grab special items, including powerful weapons to give you an advantage in the battle royale matches.Īliens also dotted the island, from little parasites that would attach on to your head to give you a speed boost (at a cost to your health) to larger, more threatening beings who would attack you on sight if you approached zones ringed in purple. By season's end, it was possible to nab spaceships off the road, take your team along and beam up other players in impromptu abductions. The finale caps a heavy alien-themed season that included all sorts of space innovations for players. Related: UFOs invaded Fortnite as the end neared for Chapter 2 Season 6 In my trio of players - including myself (Berlitza), editor-in-chief Tariq Malik (Hipponaut) and his 12-year-old daughter Zadie - it was Zadie who was first in our lobby group of 16 to figure out the cube activation puzzle, by the way. Unfortunately, Fortnite is not expected to allow players to replay this season finale, so you'll have to check out the video in this story to see what the experience was like. Parts of the mothership also had deep bays that looked somewhat like the Death Star of 'Star Wars.' As of this writing, the official Fortnite Twitter said nothing about the finale's result, or what to expect for Season 8.įor older players, the group mission had callbacks to the mothership invasion in 1997's 'Independence Day', albeit with fewer jokes and a strange cube that players had to activate partway through the mission. We have no idea what's going to happen next when Fortnite once again is available to players Monday (Sept. They'll take some health, but also allow faster movement and higher jumps.

Alien Parasites have landed on the Fortnite map.

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