Fortnite players want the Lightsaber Mythic as a new pickaxe Epic GamesThe latest Star Wars crossover event in Fortnite has brought Lightsaber weapons back to the battle royale, but some players aren\u2019t happy about the fact that Lightsabers aren\u2019t provided as pickaxes for these classic Star Wars characters. Since the release of Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, there have been a few collaborations between the Star Wars franchise and Fortnite. Lightsabers were initially presented to fans as a Mythic melee weapon in the game during the first ever crossover. Since then, new Star Wars characters have been added as skins to the game each year. The most recent update added four new skins to the game: Darth Maul, Anakin Skywalker, Padm\u00e9 Amidala, and Clone Troopers from the Prequel Trilogy films. Players were hoping that these skins would finally include Lightsabers as pickaxes (also known as harvesting tools), but that is not the case. The result was a massive outpouring of player feedback across all social media platforms. Fortnite players are unhappy with Lightsabers not being pickaxes As part of the new Star Wars crossover in the game, players can once again obtain Lightsabers as melee weapons by talking to Star Wars characters around the map. But after the recent release of Darth Maul and Anakin Skywalker skins, many players were hoping that the iconic Lightsabers would also be available as pickaxes for these characters. On the Fortnite subreddit, one player shared an image of the latest pickaxe that comes with Anakin\u2019s cosmetic set and expressed their disappointment with it, writing: \u201cEpic is really gonna give us everything BUT the lightsaber pickaxe.\u201d One user responded to the first post with, \u201cYes, the famous\u2026\u2026 what the hell is this even supposed to be\u2026 from the movies,\u201d indicating that they did not recognize the pickaxe from the films; another user then explained that it is a useful tool used to repair devices in the Star Wars world. One Reddit member provided a different point of view by saying: \u201cTbh the lightsaber weapons being free probably brings more folks in that\u2019ll buy skins, than it will bring in folks to buy lightsabers from the shop.\u201d Players could now see how Epic shrewdly played a card to provide fans of the film franchise access to the Mythic weapon in-game without requiring them to pay V-Bucks on it. With several Star Wars collaborations now under their belt, it\u2019s certainly feeling like the long-awaited Lightsaber pickaxe will never become a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite players want the Lightsaber Mythic as a new pickaxe Epic GamesThe latest Star Wars crossover event in Fortnite has brought Lightsaber weapons back to the battle royale, but some players aren\u2019t happy about the fact that Lightsabers aren\u2019t provided as pickaxes for these classic Star Wars characters. Since the release of Episode IX: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}