The battle royale island disintegrated over the course of a little over an hour. The game is currently unavailable ahead of Chapter 4’s release on December 4th, which will feature a new setting and several new characters, including Geralt of Rivia.
The most bizarre live event yet for Fortnite
The most recent big live event for Fortnite just ended, and even by Fortnite standards, it was weird. The “Fracture” event served as Fortnite Chapter 3’s send-off, and now that it’s gone, the game is down in anticipation of the release of the next chapter on December 4th, which will feature characters like the witcher himself, Geralt of Rivia.
Players were divided into groups and hung out on tiny floating islands before the action began, doing little more than watching a countdown on a TV screen. (My three players gathered around to cook marshmallows.) The Herald, a relatively new Fortnite character, then led an attack of tornadoes in a cutscene that was immediately followed by a giant chrome version of The Herald that somehow caused the entire island to explode into many, many pieces.
After that, people were floating among space debris and informed that “home is gone” until the Zero Point, a kind of superpowered energy source in Fortnite lore, lassoed together a number of pieces of the devastated island as well as players. Then, for reasons that were not quite clear, everyone had to cooperate in order to gather energy orbs to power the Zero Point.
This Fortnite event was a little less action-packed than previous ones, whether it was a fight against Galactus or an explosive alien invasion. It occasionally felt like busywork. Players have to carry out easy activities like making a snowman or locating matching objects to gather energy in order to power up the Zero Point. They might also interact with a few NPCs for simple objectives and relive brief memories from prior events, such as the mech vs. kaiju battle or the rolling cube. More pieces of the ruined island would start to materialise as the gateway fired itself up.
The action switched to another cinematic once the Zero Point was activated, where Brie Larson’s Fortnite character Paradigm could be seen supervising the creation of a new island.
The entire process took around 45 minutes, and it lacked the excitement of earlier occasions. (However, just like its predecessors, unless you’re tuned into Fortnite’s continuing narrative, it made absolutely no sense.) Currently, when a player logs in, all they can do is watch a loading screen with a glimpse of the new island in the distance. But it won’t last long because Chapter 4 is set to release on December 4th, and the splash screen teases the arrival of several new characters, including Geralt and the Doom Slayer. Additionally, the artwork teases the arrival of dirt bikes.
In Fortnite’s history, this is the third grand finale occasion. A few days after Chapter 2 started in 2019, the original Fortnite island was swallowed up by a black hole. Two years later, the third chapter began when the new island flipped over. Particularly noteworthy has been Chapter 3, which introduced the well-liked Zero Build mode to the game.