Fortnite’s new Avatar: The Final Airbender skins are reside, and followers appear to be having fun with enjoying as Toph, Aang, Zuko, and Katara. All the skins coincide with an in-game Avatar occasion that lets gamers management the weather like a bender from the present. As such, it’s not too stunning Sokka, one of many collection’ important characters who isn’t an element-controlling bender, didn’t make the reduce. However that hasn’t stopped followers from expressing their disappointment.
Regardless of not being a superpowered character, Sokka is a fan-favorite. He’s nice at comedic reduction, has a significant arc they did away with in the live-action Netflix collection, and is all-in-all an essential piece of the present’s puzzle with quite a lot of love locally. So, even when he isn’t completely consistent with the bender theme of the Fortnite occasion, it will have been good to see him included.
So as to add insult to harm, Fortnite did embody references to Sokka, together with his sword as a usable weapon, however stopped wanting really placing him within the recreation.
This will likely solely be a short lived ache level, nonetheless, as Sokka could also be added as a pores and skin down the road. Fortnite has rolled out new skins for a similar property in waves, such because the Dragon Ball skins that had been launched with months spanning between drops. So there’s a non-zero likelihood Sokka exhibits up in a future replace. Besides, his omission does sting. Give Sokka a gun, Epic.
Whereas Sokka followers are licking their wounds, Fortnite has larger issues proper now after Epic eliminated the sport’s rarity system, inflicting issues that the sport could begin promoting skins at what gamers imagine to be inflated costs. With out the rarity to find out a baseline price per beauty merchandise, followers are frightened there’s nothing to carry Epic to a particular pricing normal. The Avatar skins have felt like a foul omen to some gamers, with the skins costing 2000 V-bucks ($20) in comparison with cheaper however related skins. Even the bundled variations of the Avatar skins appear off when it comes to pricing when in comparison with different bundles like the Invincible collaboration, which incorporates extra skins and cosmetics for much less cash.
