Fortnite Skull Trooper skin – is it now available in the Item Shop for Season 6 Halloween and how do you unlock the Ghostportal back bling?
FORTNITE'S Skull Trooper costume is one skin many Battle Royale players have long wanted to get their hands on.
One of the game's most exclusive skins hasn't been available since November 2017 but has made a reappearance in the trailer for Season 6 and is now finally available to purchase. Here's what we know...
Fortnite Skull Trooper skin – how do you unlock the Ghostportal back bling?
The fan-favourite Skull Trooper skin has returned to Fortnite after overwhelming support, and this time it arrives in the Item shop with a female version, accompanying Skull Sickle pickaxe and Crypt Cruiser Glider.
You can also earn the Ghostportal backbling by completing challenges.
The Epic Skull Sickle is available for 1,200 V-Bucks, as well as the Epic Crypt Cruiser, the Epic Skull Trooper skin is now available for 1,500 V-Bucks, and the rare Skull Ranger for 1,200 V-Bucks.
The Skull Trooper was one of the first ever skins unveiled before the game's surge in popularity and was last seen during Halloween 2017 when the Epic outfit cost 1,500 V-Bucks.
Epic had been teasing the skin's reapperance for a number of months now to hype up its plans for the spooky holiday, at least according to controversial streamer Ninja.
“[Epic] gave me some interesting hints,” he claims. “They showed me some cool up-and-coming things. I’m just pumped for Halloween, dude.”
On September 27, 2018, The skin has got fans excited by making a reappearance in the trailer for Season 6 (below) which hints Epic does indeed have plans to reintroduce it later this month.
Fortnite has already been given the Halloween treatment with a decorative makeover and expectations are growing that a Skull Trooper skin will return.
Can you buy real costumes?
Fans will also be able to purchase the real-life Skull Trooper costume after Retailers Spirit Halloween and Spencer's completed an officially licenced deal with Epic Games.
Other skins available to purchase include the Black Knight, Crackshot, Dark Voyager, and Cuddle Team Leader alongside party animal pickaxes and a light-up boogie bomb.
What is Fortnite and does the video game have an age rating certificate?
Fortnite is an online video game set in a dystopian world where 98 per cent of Earth's population suddenly disappears.
Living conditions have become unbearable and zombie-like creatures roam the Earth in this sandbox game where players are among the remaining two per cent fighting for survival.
After the apocalypse, "survivor bases" were set-up and each player is in charge of looking after these bases before trying to find a way to return Earth to normal.
Fortnite, certified for those aged 12 and over, also includes a mode called Battle Royale in which 100 online players are put in a battlefield to fight until death - when just one player remains.
How many children play Fortnite and why are their parents worried?
While there is no exact figure on how many children play the game, data collected up to late January showed 45million people playing Fortnite across PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Many parents are concerned about the harmful effects that the long playing duration and violent content is having on their children.
A thread on forum site summed up concerns with one parent saying the game "promotes strategic thinking" but their child has started to "slam doors when he used to be pretty laid back".
In a This Morning asking if parents were worried about the effect the game had on their children, 59 per cent voted no as opposed to 41 per cent who said yes.
What is Fortnite?
- Fortnite: Battle Royale is a version of Fortnite, a video game released by Epic Games in July 2017
- The online game is set in a post-apocalyptic world, based around a battle for survival
- Fortnite offers two distinct modes: player versus environment 'Save the World' and the more recent player versus player game Battle Royale
- The game starts with 100 players leaping out of a plane on to a small island, fighting each other until no one is left
- Fortnite has proved a massive hit with more than 3million kids
- The game is free and kids can team up with a friend, a group of friends or compete as a duo or squad
- Matches can last up to 20 minutes
- Though it's a multiplayer shooter, no graphic violence is depicted
What's the latest in the world of Fortnite?
How has Fortnite turned some players into celebrities?
Fortnite is one of, if not the most popular game streamed live on social media platform Twitch, according to stats from .
Tens of thousands of viewers log on to watch superstar players like Tyler "Ninja" Blevins play, .
Tyler is reported to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from his 100,000 Twitch subscribers.
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