When Epic Games revealed on Saturday that a Spartan from Halo would be on the upcoming battle pass, we figured that was the season’s big collab announcement, but boy were we wrong. It turns out we’re getting both a Power Ranger and Megazord on the pass, along with a bundle of other Power Rangers in the item shop, and Epic revealed this news with a pretty awesome live-action trailer in which the Power Rangers battle the bug invasion that will be plaguing the Fortnite island in the new season. You gotta see this.
In addition to the Power Rangers themselves, this teaser includes looks at three new weapons that will be introduced in the new season, as well as what we’d guess is a new battle pass skin–a girl with robot arms who controls them with a gamepad, which should pair well with the recent Ron-troller skin. The new weapons include the Swarmstrike rocket launcher, which launches a bunch of rockets at once, a new laser pistol, and a rather large new mini-gun that the Red Ranger uses quite acrobatically.
This blast of news confirms a couple big recent leaks: that the Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver, would be the skin at the end of the linear pass, with a Megazord skin being the mid-season pass skin, arriving on September 16. And it’s likely that we’ll see a big player-controlled Megazord, a la the current Superman power, on the Battle Royale map around then as well. The description for the trailer reveals that there will be a bundle of Power Ranger skins that will drop in the item shop containing the Red, Black, Yellow, Pink and Blue Rangers. And, perhaps most importantly, the bundle includes a jam track of the show’s old theme song.
The new season of Fortnite Battle Royale starts on Thursday, August 7. You can read about everything else we know about it here.
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