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Fortnite‘s hyped Star Wars event took place this past weekend, giving players who queued up at Risky Reels a chance to watch a scene from The Rise of Skywalker ahead of the film’s release. That isn’t the end of the crossover, however; Epic has also rolled out a limited-time set of Star Wars challenges for you to complete.

As usual, most of the challenges are straightforward and can be cleared fairly easily with a little persistence, but there are a couple that may throw your for a loop. One in particular that’ll likely prove to be tricky asks you to capture Tie fighter crash sites. If you’re not sure where those are located, we’ve put together this guide showing you where to go.

Where Are The Tie Fighter Crash Sites?

We’ve come across five different Tie fighter crash sites scattered around the map. A plume of black smoke will be billowing from the wreckage at each site, so you’ll be able to spot the areas from a bit of a distance. If you need help tracking them down, we’ve marked all the crash site locations we’ve encountered below:

• Directly south of Steamy Stacks
• In the mountains north of Retail Row
• Southeast of Slurpy Swamp
• Directly northeast of Salty Springs
• Southwest of Sweaty Sands

How To Complete The Challenge

Typically for challenges of this nature, your best bet to complete the task as quickly as possible is to land at the area you need to visit. For this mission, however, you’ll need to take a more cautious approach, as each crash site is guarded by a cadre of First Order Stormtroopers. Make sure you have a couple of long-range weapons in your inventory before you head to a crash site so you can pick off the Stormtroopers and any competing players also trying to complete this challenge.

The Stormtroopers are all wielding First Order Blast Rifles, which they’ll drop upon being defeated. Not only do these have unlimited ammo, making them handy to take out other Stormtroopers, you’ll need to use the gun to complete another one of the Star Wars challenges, so be sure to pick one up when you have the chance. Once you’ve cleared out all the Stormtroopers guarding a crash site, interact with the flag at the crash site to reclaim it. Repeat the process until you’ve reclaimed enough crash sites and you’ll complete the challenge.

Season 1 of Fortnite Chapter 2 was originally slated to end this month, but Epic has now extended it into February, so you have more time to complete any challenges you haven’t cleared yet. If you need help mopping those up, you can find our maps and guides for the trickier ones in our Fortnite Chapter 2 challenges roundup.

The year’s PC winter sales are underway. GOG has already kicked off theirs, Steam is getting ready to do so later this week, and the Epic Games Store has 12 days of free games to accompany their deals. Green Man Gaming is also holding its own sale, where it introduces new flash deals every day. These flash deals last 48 hours and feature the games’ lowest prices–you won’t see them cheaper for the rest of the sale.

The first two flash deals are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Borderlands 3. Green Man Gaming’s keys for Red Dead 2 are redeemable on the Rockstar Games Launcher, while Borderlands 3 is currently exclusive to the Epic Game Store. Both games will be available for their sale price until Wednesday, December 18, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET.

Red Dead Redemption 2 | $42.23 ($60)

From GameSpot’s Red Dead Redemption 2 review: “Red Dead Redemption 2 is an excellent prequel, but it’s also an emotional, thought-provoking story in its own right, and it’s a world that is hard to leave when it’s done.”

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Borderlands 3 | $33.36 ($60)

From GameSpot’s Borderlands 3 review: “Borderlands 3 has a few stumbling blocks when it comes to bosses, but these fights are overshadowed by the game’s rewarding gunplay and over-the-top humor.”

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More flash deals will be added every day. Tomorrow’s discounts belong to The Outer Worlds and Ancestor’s Legacy. We’ll be sure to report back when their sale prices are revealed.

However, these aren’t the only discounts available during Green Man Gaming’s winter sale. There are already a ton of games from Ubisoft, 2K Games, and THQ Nordic featured. More will be added throughout the week–all of the winter sale’s deals should be available by Friday, December 20. You can see a list of the best in the list below.

Twitch is being sued by a Russian internet company over illegal broadcasts of English Premier League soccer games. The Russian company is asking the live stream service to pay 180 billion roubles (USD 2.8 billion), and have the service banned in Russia.

Rambler Group is accusing Twitch of breaching its exclusive broadcast rights to Premier League games, which the company secured in 2019. IGN reached out to Twitch for comment but did not receive a response.

According to a report by the BBC, Twitch called Rambler’s lawsuit “unfounded.” Speaking with Russian-language news website Kommersant, Twitch lawyer Julianna Tabastaeva added that Twitch, “only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations.” She also says Twitch did all it could to “eliminate the violations despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler.”

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Ghost Recon: Breakpoint next big patch has been delayed. The 1.1.0 update, which was due on December 18, will not be releasing on that day, according to a post on the Ghost Recon Reddit. Instead, it will arrive in “the latter half of January.” A specific date has not been set.

This date shift is happening to ensure the quality of the pitch, which will be introduce new content and fix bugs. It will also introduce the Terminator Live Event will not be available until 2020 either. The other promised changes, including tweaks to base-jumping and the addition of night vision goggles, have also been delayed.

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint received a substantial patch in late November, and 1.1.0 is meant to further stabilize the game, which launched to poor reviews. Ubisoft has promised a “more radical and immersive” version of their open-world shooter in the future.

Prologue, the new game from PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds‘ Brendan Greene, had its world premiere during the 2019 Game Awards. A short trailer was shown, but we didn’t get much insight into what the game is or how it plays. The trailer announced the game’s name name and who is making it, but that’s about it–Prologue’s genre was not made clear. With this in mind, it’s reasonable for players to expect another shooter, serving as a direct follow-up to the wildly popular battle royale shooter that came before it. However, that won’t be the case.

Speaking to Forbes, Greene clarified that Prologue will not be a shooter at all, let alone a battle royale shooter. Green, who left development of PUBG behind to form PlayerUnknown Productions under PUBG Corp, says that Prologue is about testing new tech. “This is the first step in the journey for me,” he told Forbes.

“Prologue is the first step into the new world for us. I wanted the chance to deliver something new on a global scale…I’ve got some pretty big dreams about what I want to achieve, that I’m not quite ready to achieve. It will require some new tech.”

Greene wants to launch a new global IP, which is 25-person studio is currently working on. He also says that he would like to create a game of enormous scale–“hundreds of kilometers by hundreds kilometers, with thousands of people.” It’s not clear if Prologue will be the game to achieve this.

Of course, this tells us more about what Prologue is than what it isn’t. A genre, as well as a release window and systems, have not been announced yet.

The Last Remnant Remastered has come to mobile devices, unexpectedly bringing the 2008 JRPG to phones and tablets. The remastered version of the game, which was released for PS4 at the end of 2018 and then on Switch earlier this year, is now playable on Android devices running 7.0 or higher or Apple devices on iOS 13.0 or higher.

The game, which features a unique command-based battle system that makes you consider troop morality and a story that spans a millennium, is available for $20 right now. That might seem like a lot for a mobile game, but it’s worth noting that the game contains no microtransactions whatsoever, and is a full, huge RPG.

The game weighs in at 8.5GB on iOS, and just 6.1GB on Android. It’s not clear why there’s a size discrepancy between the two.

In our original 2008 review of the game, The Last Remnant scored a 6.5/10. Reviewer Kevin VanOrd wrote that the game had many visual flaws, but that it was “a fun adventure that will draw you into its finely crafted universe in spite of it all.”

No Man’s Sky has seen some major changes during 2019, with the 2.0 ‘Beyond’ update introducing a bevy of changes and additions to the game on PS4, PC, and Xbox One back in August. Then in November, update 2.2 streamlined the play experience further, and now update 2.24 has added a new toy for players to tinker with. Developer Hello Games has added the ByteBeat Device to No Man’s Sky. It’s a synthesizer and sequencer that lets you program tunes for your base, and it’s a surprisingly powerful tool for music creation.

The ByteBeat can be set up at a player’s base, and from there you can use it to create audio and music that will play from it. The second you drop one it’ll start playing sounds that are generated by random waveforms, and from there, you can create your own sounds in the Sequencer.

It’s a rich tool that lets you modify waveforms, mess around with the individual elements of each track, and sync your sounds up to lights that will flash and pulse in time with the music you create. It’ll let you add an extra layer of personality to your base. Paul Weir, the game’s sound designer, is excited at the possibility of players creating some “glitchy electronica” in the game.

A tweet from Hello Games boss Sean Murray lists everything you can do with the new ByteBeat system.

In GameSpot’s re-review of No Man’s Sky this year, Justin Clark gave the game a 9/10, writing that “its Beyond expansion are the new gold standard for how to gracefully cope with a game’s flaws post-release.”