After dealing with his samurai iteration, you’ll be able to recruit Darth Vader to your squad in Fornite, although bear in mind that he’ll now speak to you with an AI-recreated model of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice.
The Chapter 6 Star Wars season of Fortnite, known as Galactic Battle, is bringing well-known characters and seasonal objects themed round a galaxy far, far-off. However no Star Wars-themed season may ignore essentially the most well-known Sith Lord of all of them, Darth Vader.
Should you’re all in favour of having one of the vital highly effective characters of the Star Wars universe in your squad, we’ve acquired you lined. On this Fortnite information, we clarify recruit Darth Vader and the place you’ll find him.
The place to search out Darth Vader in Fortnite
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Darth Vader might be present in following places, a few of which don’t have official names, although we’ve marked all three on the map above:
- Vader Samurai’s Solitude
- The mountains west of Masked Meadows
- The fields east of Cunning Floodgate
In line with our testing, he’ll solely seem in a type of spots, so you will have to verify all three. Should you don’t discover him, he’ll find yourself getting marked on the map after a while has handed.
You possibly can see his ginormous ship, the foldy-winged Imperial Shuttle, from above in the event you glide over these areas, however in the event you’re unable to take action as a result of battle bus’s pathing, you’ll be able to land between these three factors and verify every one manually (yuck). You’ll must search for the Imperial Shuttle on one of many three docks identified above. If there’s no Imperial Shuttle there, meaning he’s someplace else.
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The right way to recruit Darth Vader in Fortnite
Since Darth Vader is a boss in Fortnite, you could defeat him first earlier than you’ll be able to recruit the Sith Lord. As common in terms of dropping on some of these bosses, the best problem right here goes to be taking out different gamers who additionally wish to recruit him. That stated, come reasonably equipped — you’ll must earn your spot alongside Darth Vader first.
He’ll use his common slew of assaults from earlier seasons:
- Pressure Pull, which brings you near him so he can dish our lightsaber melee injury
- A lunge in the direction of you, which does the identical factor as above (although simply the opposite means round)
- A lightsaber spin that displays bullets again
You’ll wish to preserve your distance, leaping again the second he pulls you or lunges at you to attenuate the injury you’re taking. You’ll additionally must cease capturing if you discover him spinning his lightsaber.
After taking him out, he’ll open a portal to Mustafar and a textual content immediate will seem asking you to affix him or not. Should you agree, you’ll stroll in (and promptly out) of the portal with a brand new lightsaber and a few talents — together with Darth Vader in your staff.
What you get from recruiting Darth Vader
After accepting Darth Vader’s proposal, you’ll get a Sith Apprentice Lightsaber that additionally enables you to throw the saber (the way in which that he does).
New to Fortnite with this particular boss, you’ll additionally have the ability to speak to him utilizing no matter button the proper aspect of your display prompts you with. (For keyboard/mouse gamers, it’s the Y key.) Sure, you’ll be able to simply have a dialog with an AI model of Darth Vader, which is… weird, however OK. Be aware that different gamers seemingly can hear him speaking — we hid in a bush with him to play with the AI characteristic a bit, however as soon as he began speaking, different real-life gamers have been capable of finding us hiding (until that was simply all a bizarre coincidence?).
