Fortnite Battle Royale‘s map has been re-drawn once more, this time by a volcanic eruption during a live event on Saturday. While the damage was widespread, the urban Tilted Towers & Retail Row areas caught the brunt of it, the former little more than a smoking crater now. The event also took players to an otherworldly vault filled with crystals containing weapons removed from the game. Players had to choose one to return to life, and voted on the wildly overpowered retro gangster standby, the Drum Gun. You can see the whole event below, captured by Polygon’s Simone De Rochefort.
People have been trying ahead to Tilted Towers getting pulverised by big flaming rocks since earlier than season 4. It was theorised that the sooner meteor strike would flatten the town, however as a substitute it transformed Dusty Depot into a Dusty Divot. I admit that the eruption is fairly spectacular to behold, particularly the best way the huge city-bound rock splinters in mid-air as if to say ‘screw you in particular’. There’s little or no left of the high-rise zone, previously a warren of loot-filled rooms, and the variety of constructions in Retail Row has been pared down by the impression as effectively.
Epic are already teasing the mega-popular shooter’s subsequent occasion, though the teaser picture under is about as obscure because it will get. Something concerning the future, with an image of a cyberpunk samurai? I assume it might make sense to construct a mini Neo-Tokyo on prime of an present city crater for max Akira reference, however which may simply be me exhibiting my age. Plus, it opens up the door for the town to E.X.P.L.O.D.E once more on the finish of the season, restoring the established order. As a really transient apart, in case you’ve solely seen Akira as a film, try the manga. It’s a brill and a lot longer story.
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Accompanying all this volcanic nonsense is a equally themed The Floor Is Lava time-limited mode. Lava is slowly rising up from the bottom factors on the map, forcing gamers to climb or construct upwards to keep away from getting cooked. A enjoyable, different tackle the common Battle Royale construction, and one which rewards good development abilities in addition to straight taking pictures. It’s only a pity that the Drum Gun chews by means of wood partitions like they’re not even there.
Still, it’s laborious to have a look at occasions like this and luxuriate in them as a lot as I’d wish to after reports that Epic demands long, stressful hours of work to maintain up with updates. The game’s fixed stream of beauty gubbins, reworks to its single monumental map and the occasional single-use setpiece comes at an actual human value. Hopefully much less blood, sweat and tears needed to be poured into this most up-to-date occasion. As reported by PC Gamer (RPS’s greatest followers) technical issues prevented some gamers from coming into the unvaulting occasion. Those who missed out have been gifted a free glider pores and skin.
