{"id":185430,"date":"2019-12-16T23:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1813801\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T23:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:42:26","slug":"technical-difficulties-take-center-stage-at-fortnites-star-wars-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/16\/technical-difficulties-take-center-stage-at-fortnites-star-wars-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Difficulties Take Center Stage at \u2018Fortnite\u2019s\u2019 Star Wars Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rise-of-skywalker-fortnite-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>Last week, we wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/exclusive-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-clip-to-debut-in-fortnite-1813191\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fortnite\u2019s<\/em> special Star Wars event<\/a>, where the game would premiere an exclusive clip from <em>The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>. The event took place as scheduled this Saturday, but when I attempted to join a match to cover it, I instead joined thousands of others in staring at a forever-buffering log-in screen. This, for me, was the event (until I gave up and just watched a livestream).<\/p>\n<p>Festivities kicked off at 1:30, when the virtual doors officially opened. But when I attempted to sign it at around 1:10, I already faced issues. I was able to fiddle with my settings for maybe ten minutes (sorry, zoomers, but I\u2019m more of an <em>Overwatch<\/em> fan), before my client eventually crashed around 1:20. Panicking, I tried to log back in through the game client a few times, each time being greeted with a \u201clogin failed\u201d message. Soon after, the game wouldn\u2019t even open for me, before the Epic Games Launcher itself stopped working a few tries later (what if I wanted to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/review-control-is-remedys-strongest-game-yet-1801562\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Control<\/em><\/a>?).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Ta9vRkTfT\">pic.twitter.com\/2Ta9vRkTfT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle \u2665\ufe0fHeart\u2665\ufe0f (@ChelleEhrhardt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelleEhrhardt\/status\/1205921074153709569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reloaded again, this is what I&#8217;ve got now lol <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6H4QWGIsK1\">pic.twitter.com\/6H4QWGIsK1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle \u2665\ufe0fHeart\u2665\ufe0f (@ChelleEhrhardt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelleEhrhardt\/status\/1205921924901154819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t the only one facing issues, with other hopeful attendees taking to Twitter to complain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Me trying to login into fortnite for the Star Wars event <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LfKMUlQHT0\">pic.twitter.com\/LfKMUlQHT0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JellyBean (@JellyBeanUK1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JellyBeanUK1\/status\/1205927283405545472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">the new star wars movie is just gonna be an epic games loading login screen for two and a half hours<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FortniteStarWars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FortniteStarWars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarWars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zj3DeRp76m\">pic.twitter.com\/zj3DeRp76m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kiristmas tree? (@Kirious_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kirious_\/status\/1205924585129963520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the 2:00 start time approaching, I gave up on trying to get into a game, and instead turned on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/521443583\"  rel=\"noopener\">Twitch\u2019s official stream<\/a> of the event, which randomly jumped between different <em>Fortnite<\/em> streamers. Here, chat joked about common login failure messages, like \u201c502 Bad Gateway,\u201d while one of the featured streamers wondered if the extra traffic was coming from Star Wars fans who don\u2019t normally play <em>Fortnite<\/em> (guilty). Others were worried they wouldn\u2019t receive the event\u2019s special TIE Whisper glider if they couldn\u2019t attend.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:00, game journalist Geoff Keighley\u2019s voice boomed from the <em>Fortnite<\/em> map\u2019s sky in the stream I was watching, telling fans that they were delaying the event by 10 minutes to try to give more people a chance to log-in, and assuring players that they wouldn\u2019t need to attend the event to get the glider, just update the game. Keighley had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n8k4QcEACZA\"  rel=\"noopener\">briefly spoken<\/a> with Abrams at Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/watch-these-trailers-from-the-2019-game-awards-1813637\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">The Game Awards<\/a> to tease the event, and it seems he was our emcee for the afternoon. He also advised us to watch a streamer if we couldn\u2019t log-in (ok&#8230;don\u2019t know how I would have heard that if I weren\u2019t already watching a stream, though).<\/p>\n<p>At 2:10, after multiple failed last-ditch efforts to get into a match, a fleet of star destroyers warped into a darkened sky on the stream I was watching, as a squadron of TIE fighters engaged in combat with the Millenium Falcon. As the Falcon landed on Risky Reel\u2019s stage, a stormtrooper who I could swear was voiced by Ben Schwartz (BB-8, Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Rec, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/at-last-the-live-action-sonic-the-hedgehog-trailer-is-here-1785095\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Sonic in the cursed new live-action movie<\/a>) exited to warm-up the crowd with Geoff\u2019s hologram presenter avatar, before a <em>Fortnite<\/em>-ified J.J. Abrams joined them a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fortnite JJ Abrams is really fuckin with me <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bsViHpUmlS\">pic.twitter.com\/bsViHpUmlS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clausmonaut Marcus ? (@CinnamonGhoul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CinnamonGhoul\/status\/1206273253959970818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>J.J. made a few brief quips about how his avatar was thinner than he had ever been in real-life, before Geoff pranked him by shooting back about how \u201canything is possible in a virtual world\u201d and temporarily changing J.J.\u2019s avatar into the default female skin for the game. J.J. did a shocked emote, and said \u201cDreams come true, my friends,\u201d the one joke to get a laugh out of me the whole afternoon (my DMs are open any time if you want to talk, J.J.).<\/p>\n<p>What followed was pretty standard Good Morning America-style banter, with Geoff urging the audience to guess what the movie clip they were about to see was focused on, and the clip finally showing on the big screen. Keighley and Abrams promised something beyond a typical press tour stop at The Game Awards, but for my money, it wasn\u2019t too different from the \u201cThey fly now\u201d clip that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/j-j-abrams-on-star-wars-ebay-leaks-his-favorite-prequel-scene-and-episode-9s-runtime-1811996\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">hit the media<\/a> a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In this one-minute excerpt from the film, Rey, Poe, and Finn infiltrate what seems to be a star destroyer (but could have been yet another superweapon\u2026), before Rey mind tricks a few stormtrooper guards to let them pass. Poe jokes about whether or not Rey has ever done that to Finn or himself before. That\u2019s it. Well, I guess C-3PO was there for a second at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>As the screen went black, J.J. and Keighley asked audiences to emote, as they joined in with dances of their own. Abrams then wasted no time in leaving the event, but he did at least have the courtesy to Naturo run away, bless his manners.<\/p>\n<p>Keighley then asked audiences their favorite lightsaber color, before another TIE fighter squadron interrupted the event, and his hologram dissipated. Schwartz\u2019 Stormtrooper took off in the Millennium Falcon, before time slowed and a mysterious voice (*cough* Sheev Palpatine *cough*) spoke about the \u201cwork of generations\u201d being complete and the \u201cday of the Sith!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Players were then left to their own devices as they were each given a lightsaber in the color they voted for and proceeded to whack the hell out of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, as somebody who doesn\u2019t play <em>Fortnite<\/em>, I was underwhelmed. The clip was inconsequential, and the banter was, as J.J. admitted to Schwartz live on-stage, \u201ca little annoying.\u201d But for <em>Fortnite<\/em> fans, this joined <em>Avengers<\/em> in giving them yet another licensed toy to play with. If they could log-in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now everyone&#8217;s just beating each other up with lightsabers<\/p>\n<p>This was all just to reveal that they&#8217;re adding lightsabers to Fortnite<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle \u2665\ufe0fHeart\u2665\ufe0f (@ChelleEhrhardt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelleEhrhardt\/status\/1205932614575644672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, assuming lightsabers stay in the game, <em>Fortnite<\/em> will join the ranks of <em>Jedi Knight II<\/em> and <em>Jedi Academy<\/em> as an online multiplayer Jedi battle arena, which should prove a treat for fans of both Star Wars and battle royale games. For me, though, I\u2019ll just have to see the movie this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full <em>Fortnite<\/em> Star Wars event below, and be sure to update your game for that TIE Whisper glider&#8230;assuming you can now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OaUJF155MBQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rise-of-skywalker-fortnite-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, we wrote about Fortnite&rsquo;s special Star Wars event, where the game would premiere an exclusive clip from The Rise of Skywalker. 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