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The Star Wars season reminds me of the second Marvel season, where balancing was entirely focused on having the collab mythics. So if you somehow made it to the late game without any collab mythics, you'd be completely fucked. The first Marvel season didn't have this issue. All the Star Wars guns are nice and all, but their shotgun equivalents are pretty useless compared to the rest of the new arsenal. You can't see where shots are coming from, and they're all dwarfed by Force Lightning. Force Push is only worth getting if you're desperate for a lightsaber and can't find Force Lightning.
 
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In addition to having her chest nerfed, new Evie seems to be on a different rigging and, consequently, less expressive than OG Evie.

Here's a side-by-side of both versions doing the Miku Miku Beam.

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Kier Starmer said:
I am finding that as the seasons come out, the playability appeal decreases quickly. A friend and I played for 45 minutes, and we were over it. I keep giving each season a chance, saying, "Next season will be better," but they are progressively worse.
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Yeah this season is the worst I've ever played, even worse than Wrecked. I played 3 matches and haven't played since, just waiting for next months season but I'm sure that one will blow too.
 
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Expect to see half the internet coping and seething soon regarding the weird new feature in today's new Fortnite patch, AI Darth Vader https://www.fortnite.com/news/this-will-be-a-day-long-remembered-speak-with-darth-vader-in-fortnite (archive)

TLDR:
-The Samurai Vader NPC boss in the current Royale/Zero Build map was replaced with "regular" Darth Vader. If you defeat him, you can recruit Vader as an AI ally who joins your squad for the rest of the match. You can talk to him in voice and he'll respond to whatever you ask him in an AI-generated voice.
-The AI models they're using are Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash model and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 model.
-James Earl Jones signed off on being okay with his voice being used for this at some point before he died.

There are supposed to be safeguards in place to prevent Vader from talking about anything inappropriate. I think you can already imagine how well that's working. Loserfruit (a popular Fortnite streamer who has her own in-game skin) managed to get the AI Darth Vader to swear at her, then rank romantic partners on how big their breasts were.



Another streamer also managed to get AI Vader to ask if Skibidi Toilets were a part of the Rebel Alliance.



Kotaku published a story on it and the author of the article claims Epic responded by pushing out an emergency hotfix so that he can't say Fuck anymore.
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Pinball 2000 said:
Expect to see half the internet coping and seething soon regarding the weird new feature in today's new Fortnite patch, AI Darth Vader https://www.fortnite.com/news/this-will-be-a-day-long-remembered-speak-with-darth-vader-in-fortnite (archive)

TLDR:
-The Samurai Vader NPC boss in the current Royale/Zero Build map was replaced with "regular" Darth Vader. If you defeat him, you can recruit Vader as an AI ally who joins your squad for the rest of the match. You can talk to him in voice and he'll respond to whatever you ask him in an AI-generated voice.
-The AI models they're using are Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash model and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 model.
-James Earl Jones signed off on being okay with his voice being used for this at some point before he died.

There are supposed to be safeguards in place to prevent Vader from talking about anything inappropriate. I think you can already imagine how well that's working. Loserfruit (a popular Fortnite streamer who has her own in-game skin) managed to get the AI Darth Vader to swear at her, then rank romantic partners on how big their breasts were.


Another streamer also managed to get AI Vader to ask if Skibidi Toilets were a part of the Rebel Alliance.



Kotaku published a story on it and the author of the article claims Epic responded by pushing out an emergency hotfix so that he can't say Fuck anymore.
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I can't wait to see games where every NPC character has the ability to intelligently speak to you like that. Imagine Elder Scrolls with hyper-intelligent AI chatbot NPCs that you can speak to with your mic, and being able to fuck with them with stupid questions
 
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Sneed Lurker said:
I can't wait to see games where every NPC character has the ability to intelligently speak to you like that. Imagine Elder Scrolls with hyper-intelligent AI chatbot NPCs that you can speak to with your mic, and being able to fuck with them with stupid questions
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I would imagine it turning into something like this:
 
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Pinball 2000 said:
Kotaku published a story on it and the author of the article claims Epic responded by pushing out an emergency hotfix so that he can't say Fuck anymore.
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One of the funniest, and most interesting things, I've seen done with AI yet and already they're lobotomizing him. Makes me sad. Do Jar-Jar next, Fortnite.
 
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