How To Get Your Free ‘Fortnite’ TIE Interceptor Star Wars Glider Today [Update]

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Fortnite’s big Star Wars Rise of Skywalker event is happening today at 2 PM ET. We don’t know much about it yet, but we have gotten teases from both Epic social media and at The Game Awards from Donald Mustard himself.

UPDATE: Because of the technical problems, Epic will be giving everyone the glider.

So far we know that:

- JJ Abrams will be presenting a clip from the movie at Risky Reels, speaking live to the entire game at once.

- Geoff Keighley will be talking to Abrams as a host of sort (do they have avatars? Unclear).

- This is going to be something significantly more than simply showing a new clip from the movie on the screen. It’s going to be some sort of grand, interactive thing that Keighley describes as bigger than the black hole event, though I kind of believe that to be impossible. We’ll see though.

Finally, you get a prize just for showing up. You can get a free Fortnite TIE Interceptor “Whisper” glider for simply attempting the event live. At The Game Awards, Donald Mustard revealed that everyone would be flying into the event in these gliders and once the event is over, you get to keep them.

It’s not clear if these TIE Interceptors will be sold in the store eventually, but this could be a one-time only thing where you may not ever be able to get these again, so I would show up to the event just to be safe. On your phone, whatever you have to do in order to at least claim the TIE.

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This was not thrilling news to me, someone who just hours earlier had paid 1200 V-bucks for the “normal” First Order TIE Fighter glider that was being sold in the store. The Interceptor one is better! And it’s free! Frustrating.

This is the TIE Interceptor that was shown in the first trailer for Rise of Skywalker where Rey leaps over it in the desert while wielding her lightsaber. Given that the ship actually has a name, Whisper, it seems like it’s a one of a kind vessel that probably belongs to someone important like Kylo Ren or one of his Knights of Ren buddies. Did he fly this Last Jedi? I can’t remember, I blocked that movie out of my mind. Just kidding, I love it. Or do I? Debate in the comments.

Anyway, giving away something this significant for an event like this is a first for Epic, a way to bribe people into showing up en masse for this thing, as it seems like something they don’t want people to miss. I am even getting promoted tweets from the Fortnite account showing up in my feed demanding my presence, so yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be pretty massive. Stay tuned, and I’ll have thoughts on what transpires later today.

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