If you prefer, we are currently moving to clock five of Fortnite season 11, or hour five of chapter 2, season 1, which may be how Epic ends up referring to the game from now on.
But right now there is no game, only a black hole where a game is considered. At 2 pm ET, Epic promised Fortnite's "The End" event, nuked the map with a meteor and a bunch of rockets, and sucked the entire playerbase and island into the space-time continuum. Everything is left when you load the game, a black hole, and streamers are currently earning a hefty… doing nothing but streaming that black hole.
'Fortnite' streaming A black hole ahead of 'Chapter 2'
Not much has been done at Fortnite yet, as the game has been reduced to this one livestream. Over time, mysterious numbers have begun to appear on the black hole livestream:
"I was not alone."
"Others were out of the loop."
But so far, this is it. Everyone is sitting around waiting for the game to reappear, and this is actually unlike anything seen in gaming.
As far as I can tell, there are at least a million viewers for Fortnite, across Twitch, YouTube and Mixer, with around 900,000 on Twitch alone, just as other streamers see the black hole.
On Twitch, this is the Fortnite legend Tfue, racking in naturally the most views, 156,000, though he's doing so with a misleading thumbnail that is a photoshopped image of a fake Season 11 map. Not that Tfue isn't getting many viewers anyway, but I think it helps, because people wonder how he got there early. As I write this I am checking back on his stream and ... he is currently shooting a beer. OK then.
On YouTube, Typical Gamer is actually beating Tuff with 166,000 viewers, a significant percentage of its 8.66 million subscribers.
Why are so many people watching these streamers and doing nothing? Because one of the most popular games on Earth has taken itself offline for the purpose, and we have no idea when it might return, other than being in this cryptocurrency livestream.
There is no countdown, nothing to indicate whether it is going to last 20 minutes or a full week. Leaker Lucas 7 Yoshi says he found some codes on Fortnite.com that say it can actually run until 6 am on Tuesday morning, practically two whole days from now. That's unconfirmed, but Epic released an entirely new map for Fortnite, and could be doing other things like Save the World as rumored to be free-to-play, so who knows.
Two days would be a long time to sit down to watch a stream, especially without a countdown, but I get the feeling that we'll see more cryptic messages and changes in the black hole over time as Fortnite makes its comeback. it promotes. Coming back during a week when no one but the streamer can play is a strange notion, but we'll see what happens.
Keep watching, it's not nearly over yet.
But right now there is no game, only a black hole where a game is considered. At 2 pm ET, Epic promised Fortnite's "The End" event, nuked the map with a meteor and a bunch of rockets, and sucked the entire playerbase and island into the space-time continuum. Everything is left when you load the game, a black hole, and streamers are currently earning a hefty… doing nothing but streaming that black hole.
'Fortnite' streaming A black hole ahead of 'Chapter 2'
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"I was not alone."
"Others were out of the loop."
But so far, this is it. Everyone is sitting around waiting for the game to reappear, and this is actually unlike anything seen in gaming.
As far as I can tell, there are at least a million viewers for Fortnite, across Twitch, YouTube and Mixer, with around 900,000 on Twitch alone, just as other streamers see the black hole.
On Twitch, this is the Fortnite legend Tfue, racking in naturally the most views, 156,000, though he's doing so with a misleading thumbnail that is a photoshopped image of a fake Season 11 map. Not that Tfue isn't getting many viewers anyway, but I think it helps, because people wonder how he got there early. As I write this I am checking back on his stream and ... he is currently shooting a beer. OK then.
On YouTube, Typical Gamer is actually beating Tuff with 166,000 viewers, a significant percentage of its 8.66 million subscribers.
Why are so many people watching these streamers and doing nothing? Because one of the most popular games on Earth has taken itself offline for the purpose, and we have no idea when it might return, other than being in this cryptocurrency livestream.
There is no countdown, nothing to indicate whether it is going to last 20 minutes or a full week. Leaker Lucas 7 Yoshi says he found some codes on Fortnite.com that say it can actually run until 6 am on Tuesday morning, practically two whole days from now. That's unconfirmed, but Epic released an entirely new map for Fortnite, and could be doing other things like Save the World as rumored to be free-to-play, so who knows.
Two days would be a long time to sit down to watch a stream, especially without a countdown, but I get the feeling that we'll see more cryptic messages and changes in the black hole over time as Fortnite makes its comeback. it promotes. Coming back during a week when no one but the streamer can play is a strange notion, but we'll see what happens.
Keep watching, it's not nearly over yet.