Epic Games’ battle royale Fortnite is officially into its Marvel Comics-themed Season 4, with a battle pass featuring heroes and villains like Thor, Wolverine, and Doctor Doom. The game has a long history of crossing over with comic book icons like Captain America or DC Comics’ Aquaman, but plenty more have also been announced or leaked in the game’s code. Today, Epic Games released a Silver Surfer bundle for players to purchase through the in-game store.
Silver Surfer is a character who traditionally works for Galactus, the world-eating cosmic entity that looms over Fortnite Season 4, as a herald that scours the galaxy for new planets to be consumed. Though he has not played a part in the Marvel Cinematic Universe given its first major arc centered around Thanos (who also appeared in Fortnite), Silver Surfer has starred in other film adaptations like 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer.
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His new bundle in Fortnite will provide players with a character skin, his surfboard as a glider, a sleek silver pickaxe, and a backpack called the “Herald’s Star” for 2,200 V-bucks. Epic Games’ marketing has not specified whether the Silver Surfer skin has special emotes or powers similar to other Fortnite Marvel skins like Mystique, but at the very least it is fitting for the character to come with a surfboard players can use to glide down from the battle bus.
These Silver Surfer cosmetics were leaked ahead of time, as tends to be the case with much of the content put out by Epic Games given how popular their battle royale is. This lends credence to other leaks like a Black Panther skin coming to Fortnite, though that addition may be changed or delayed after the recent passing of Chadwick Boseman.
As exciting as having a huge collection of Marvel Comics content may be for some fans, there are many currently unable to access it due to the legal battle between Apple and Epic Games over the developer’s violation of App Store guidelines. Apple recently suspended Epic Games’ developer account, making Fortnite unavailable on iOS devices.
Luckily for smaller game developers, this legal battle does not affect every third party that uses Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. However, it does mean that Fortnite‘s “Nexus War” content, including the Silver Surfer bundle, will not see as wide a reach as it may have otherwise.
Fortnite is available now for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in development.
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Source: Forbes