Fortnite’s new Avatar: The Final Airbender skins are dwell, and followers appear to be having fun with taking part in 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 sequence’ fundamental characters who isn’t an element-controlling bender, didn’t make the minimize. 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 sequence, and is all-in-all an necessary piece of the present’s puzzle with a variety of love locally. So, even when he isn’t solely consistent with the bender theme of the Fortnite occasion, it will have been good to see him included.
So as to add insult to damage, Fortnite did embody references to Sokka, together with his sword as a usable weapon, however stopped wanting really placing him within the sport.
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 probability 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 greater issues proper now after Epic eliminated the sport’s rarity system, inflicting considerations that the sport could begin promoting skins at what gamers consider to be inflated costs. With out the rarity to find out a baseline value per beauty merchandise, followers are anxious there’s nothing to carry Epic to a selected pricing normal. The Avatar skins have felt like a nasty 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 by way of pricing when in comparison with different bundles like the Invincible collaboration, which incorporates extra skins and cosmetics for much less cash.
