‘Fortnite’ just had players kill Galactus along with Marvel heroes, season 5 starts early

Well, if you managed to slip into Fortnite’s big new event in time, you would once again be witnessing something unprecedented.

The Galactus event came and went with players channeling Star Fox to defeat the giant bad boy that has been lurking on the Fortnite map for the past few weeks. The final plan, devised by Tony Stark, was to fill a bunch of battle buses with gamma bombs and shove them down Galactus’s throat. Literally.

What the actual event involved was a little more on the rails than I expected to see. I was imagining hundreds of thousands of islands with a hundred players on each battling Galactus with a billion HP in real time. Instead, what we got was effectively a small solo minigame and an interactive cutscene. Yeah it was still pretty cool, and it had that “living a Marvel movie” feel, but the bus shooting theme was weird and the whole event was killing some drones with some very (very) short hero cameos from Thor, Iron Man and Wolverine. In fact, I thought the coolest part was at the beginning, when Galactus crushed the helicopter and destroyed it. After that, not so much. It wasn’t a Travis Scott concert.

As for the ending, this event has once again “destroyed” the game, but not in the same mysterious way from the black hole of a few seasons ago when Zero Point exploded or collapsed or whatever it was it did. Rather, there is now only an on-screen countdown revealing that Season 5 will start a little earlier than everyone thought, not tomorrow morning but tonight at midnight ET. Enjoy parents! (To update: Epic now says that the game itself won’t be available until “a few hours” after midnight when it’s patching, so maybe it’s closer to a more normal hour).

We know relatively little about the upcoming Fortnite season, only that The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda appear as a skin and back bling respectively, but no, it’s not a full Star Wars season or anything. It’s unclear if all the Marvel stuff is done, as we know this is a deal Epic and Marvel have worked for a long time, nor do we know the state of the map, even if we managed to kill Galactus before he did. ate everything completely. I heard the buzzword for the upcoming season is “chaos,” so what that means is anyone’s guess, and Epic isn’t known for its subtlety when it comes to seasonal transitions.

It was a great event, as always, although it was a bit disappointed with the final product, which was not as interactive as I expected. We will see how they continue to evolve in the future and what the next season holds for us to try to overcome it this time.

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