Epic Video games has introduced that the Cybertruck is coming to its well-liked video video games Fortnite and Rocket League within the subsequent couple days, sharing pictures of the automobile in each video games.
Tesla has been delivering the Cybertruck for nearly 9 months now, so it’s beginning to turn out to be comparatively widespread to see them on the highway.
Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless solely delivering the early “Basis Sequence” automobiles, with a $20k value premium. It ought to have began delivering regular Cybertrucks by now, nevertheless it pushed again that timeline to late 2024.
And it’s nonetheless definitely a press release to see one round – they do stick out, and do flip heads. Although the which means of that assertion is likely to be altering… main some to wish to keep away from being seen in one in every of these testaments to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s hubris.
Whether or not you prefer it or hate it (for me, the latter), the automobile is definitely iconic. And so now it’s seeing publicity in two well-liked video video games which can be identified for his or her huge availability of purchaseable beauty objects.
Each Fortnite and Rocket League are “free-to-play” video games owned by the identical firm, Epic Video games, which you’ll be able to compete in with out spending any cash. They make their cash by way of beauty objects to customise your character or automobile, which may be bought by way of in-game forex.
Fortnite, a battle royale recreation the place you battle to be the final one standing out of 100 gamers, is understood for its huge number of customizations, with a whopping 11,711 beauty objects obtainable in recreation. Rocket League, a 3v3 recreation the place miniature vehicles play soccer, has fewer customizations as the one customizable object is your automobile, however nonetheless has a good 108 automobile skins.
Each video games introduced as we speak that the Cybertruck can be obtainable as one in every of these beauty objects beginning tomorrow, July 23. We don’t know but how a lot every of them will value by way of in-game forex, so in case you’re the kind that likes to spend cash on pixels, you’ll have to attend til tomorrow to determine the worth tag.
To introduce the Cybertruck to Fortnite, Fortnite launched a brief trailer, referencing Tesla’s foolish tug-of-war stunt:
And to introduce the Cybertruck to Rocket League, the sport put out a single body displaying the Cybertruck on the sport’s area – wheel covers and all:
A minimum of, neither of the automobiles will tax your graphics card very a lot with their inherently low-poly design. Perhaps the pixels can be price it, then. An additional fps or two by no means damage anybody.
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