Fortnite Season 5 Battle Pass Could Feature Mandalorian As Bonus Skin

A recent Fortnite leak has suggested that Chapter 2, Season 5 Battle Pass could feature Mandalorian as a bonus skin in the game. Scroll on for details. Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 4 is all set to come to an end with the arrival of Devourer of Worlds. The Galactus is set to invade the Fortnite island which will make way for numerous changes made in the battle royale with the release of Season 5. The new season is expected to bring a plethora of new content to the game along with a new map design, but the exact changes are not known. However, a new Fortnite leak suggests that the Chaper 2, Season 5 Battle Pass will have a Mandalorian skin.

The Fortnite Season 5 Battle Pass has been leaked and it reveals that Mandalorian is one of the bonus skins that will be available with the new Battle Pass. However, it should be noted that the new season is not expected to be based entirely around Star Wars as was the case with Marvel-themed Season 4. In addition, the season will also include 'Baby Yoda', which is one of the most beloved characters in The Mandalorian series. As per Fortnite leaks, the upcoming season will likely begin on December 2 at 07:00 GMT. if that's the case, Fortnite fans won't have to wait long before diving into Season 5. But before that happens, Fortnite fans around the world need to come together to take on Galactus who is set to cause chaos on the island with the end of season live event. The Fortnite Galactus event is scheduled to begin on December 1 at 4 PM ET. Fortnite players are suggested to log into the online game an hour prior to the event start time at around 3 PM ET. After logging into the game, you will need to wait until the event lobby finally goes live at 3:30 PM ET. It is also essential for players to download and install the new Fortnite14.60 update before logging into the title and waiting for the event to begin. With the latest update installed on your gaming device, you should be able to log into Fortnite and view the special event playlist.

You are not banned from Fortnite

Fortnite is currently experiencing game-wide problems with logins, keeping some players from accessing their accounts. According to the game’s official status account, “Players who see a message saying ‘You do not have permission to play Fortnite’ or ‘Your account no longer has play access to Fortnite’ because of this issue are not banned from Fortnite.”

Epic Games is currently investigating “issues related to kicks and logins.” The developer has promised updates when the issue is resolved. “As we work to resolve this issue, we have entered server downtime,” the developer said. Epic announced today that players can buy an X-Wing glider in-game, just the latest in its line of Star Wars-themed items.

You can now buy an X-Wing glider in Fortnite 

You can now buy an X-Wing glider in Fortnite, Epic Games announced Monday. The new glider has become available the same day EA released a new animated short introducing the story of Star Wars: Squadrons. The glider costs 1,200 V-Bucks. This isn’t the first time a Star Wars-themed item has appeared in Fortnite. You could buy a number of cosmetics, including skins for Rey and Finn and a First Order Tie Fighter glider, as part of a major crossover event around the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker last year, and you could get the Millennium Falcon as part of the game’s last Winterfest event.

And EA and Epic have teamed up to help promote Star Wars games in the past, too. A stormtrooper was added to Fortnite with the release of Jedi: Fallen Order in November, and you could get it for free if you bought the game on the Epic Games Store. Fortnite continues to be a key promotional venue for major cultural icons and has even played host to other video game crossovers. Fortnite’s current season is Marvel themed, for example, and for a period of time last year, the game had an entire area of the map that was in the style of Borderlands 3, complete with cel-shaded visuals.

Fortnite is getting Nvidia RTX ray tracing support on computer

Nvidia on Tuesday announced that Epic Games is bringing real-time ray tracing to the PC version of Fortnite. The announcement came as part of the company’s Ampere graphics card live stream, where we expect Nvidia to show off the RTX 3090 graphics card later today.

Fortnite will support DLSS 2.0, Nvidia’s feature that uses AI to boost frame rates while keeping the ray tracing effects boosted to their maximum. The video clip above shows some high-fidelity surface reflections.
When ray tracing launched with the RTX 20-series, Nvidia struggled to attract large-scale games to adopt it right away. But support is growing, and it doesn’t get much larger in scale than Fortnite one of the most popular games in the world. Tune into Nvidia’s live stream for more announcements.

Apple Inc. is now a $2 trillion company

Apple has become the first US company to hit a market cap of $2 trillion. It’s an arbitrary milestone but a significant one all the same, testimony to the pandemic-defying performance of the iPhone maker. It’s also been just two years since Apple hit a $1 trillion market cap, meaning the company has essentially doubled in value in just over 24 months. Apple is not the first company in the world to hit the $2 trillion benchmark. Saudi Aramco, the gas and oil giant headquartered in Saudi Arabia, did so first. Aramco briefly hit the $2 trillion mark in December 2019 but has since dropped below that figure as its stock price wavers.

Apple surpassed it as the world’s most valuable company on August 4th, 2020. Today, shares in the company crossed the $467.77 mark that gives Apple the $2 trillion valuation, as reported by the Financial Times. But they may well dip below that in future. Shares in Apple have been on a tear for years, but they’ve performed particularly well in 2020, gaining by more than 50 percent, despite the disarray caused by COVID-19. The company’s stock has gained, on average, 3.5 percent every week since the beginning of June, reports The Wall Street Journal. And its share price jumped significantly after its most recent earnings report in July, where the company reported record sales and a total of $59.7 billion in revenue up 11 percent compared to the same quarter last year. But although revenues are booming, Apple is facing a string of regulatory headwinds regarding the ecosystem of apps that underwrite its hardware. Most notable of these is the legal challenge from Fortnite creator Epic Games, which is currently suing Apple for kicking Fortnite off iOS after Epic tried to circumvent Apple’s payment systems. Part of Epic’s complaint (and one echoed by many other companies who reach customers through Apple’s App Store) is that the company’s 30 percent cut on transactions is extortionate. Along with Apple’s growing revenue from its services and its reported plans to launch various subscription bundles later this year, this shows how the iPhone maker’s future depends not just on its hardware, but on the software that keeps customers loyal. The iPhone got Apple to $1 trillion. Services, arguably, got it $2 trillion. What can keep it there?