Yearly, I spend April counting down the times till Fortnite‘s Star Wars crossover occasion in Might. Like many, I used to be enthusiastic about this 12 months’s collab, however after spending time in-game with it, many gamers have slammed the replace as “boring” and “lame.”

With Disney buying a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Video games again in February, expectations had been excessive when it got here to their first huge collaboration as companions. Whereas we did get some mega LEGO Fortnite additions and the arrival of Chewbacca, the occasion hasn’t felt as grand as earlier editions, and followers have observed.

Posted on the official Fortnite subreddit, participant Rudniy defined that the final chapter’s crossover had “4 distinctive lightsabers and fascinating skills on every of them,” whereas this 12 months we bought a “reasonably weak crossbow and a single Darth Vader saber.”

“I’m not a fan of Star Wars, however I used to be ready for the collab simply because I needed to get the identical enjoyable from the sport, the way it was final chapter,” they wrote. “However I bought a complete disregard for the Battle Royale mode. On the similar time, I can’t clarify it some other approach apart from laziness. You have already got all of the belongings prepared. Simply put them within the sport for per week at the least. What’s tremendous sophisticated about this for an enormous firm like Epic?”

Nflfan32 agreed, saying: “A lot of the effort went within the Star Wars collab this time round went into LEGO Fortnite. There’s quite a bit to do in that mode. However I agree, the Battle Royale mode is missing severely. The lightsaber isn’t even value choosing up.”

As for why this Star Wars occasion was missing, WraiSK surmised that it “was largely due to the Avatar occasion that ended simply earlier than,” saying that with Mythic objects just like the Thunderbolt of Zeus and the Chains of Hades already within the sport, extra lightsabers and Pressure skills would have made the gameplay “fairly bizarre.”

Whereas that will have been the case, I believe it nonetheless would have been higher than what we ended up with. I jumped on early this week to finish Quests, however ended up leaping off as quickly as I completed them as I wasn’t having fun with the occasion that a lot. At one level I had each a Wookie Bowcaster and a Stormtrooper laser pistol, however ended up ditching them as I felt they had been placing me at an obstacle in opposition to gamers who had regular weapons.

Maybe this crossover simply got here too early in Disney and Epic Video games’ new partnership, however followers will likely be anticipating extra when it occurs for Star Wars day subsequent 12 months.