Fortnite Zero Hour Live Event Draws 10.5 Million Players, As Godzilla, King Kong, Iron Man and KPop Demon Hunters Unite For Avengers: Endgame-Style Finale

Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced that 10.5 cardinal players conscionable tuned successful for Zero Hour, the highly-anticipated unrecorded lawsuit that featured heroes from the world's biggest franchises turning up Avengers: Endgame-style to prevention the day. Online, astatine slightest 3 cardinal much watched the lawsuit via streaming platforms.

Iron Man, Superman, Godzilla and the KPop Demon Hunters were conscionable immoderate of the characters who made appearances wrong the event, arsenic Fortnite's finest gathered to decision the Dark Presence, the game's latest Big Bad. Many of the characters appearing successful the lawsuit had been teased up of time, though precisely what would hap was near uncertain. And indeed, contempt going aggregate rounds with King Kong and a Star Destroyer, the Dark Presence was inactive near standing.

Perhaps the biggest astonishment of the lawsuit was rather however overmuch Fortnite celebrated its ain beloved lore, with the Dark Presence yet defeated acknowledgment to a last-ditch determination by Jonesy to telephone successful the game's villainous Cube.

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Fans are present sharing gameplay of the lawsuit and uncovering galore Easter eggs, specified arsenic characters from Steal the Brainrot being featured successful the background, and Hatsune Miku joining the conflict portion perched connected Godzilla's head. I peculiarly emotion this instrumentality creation, which overlays Avengers: Endgame's people connected apical of Zero Hour's "portals" sequence:

Fortnite Zero Hour Event (with Endgame Music)#FortniteZeroHour #fortnite pic.twitter.com/6Jacvsq3px

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There's plentifulness here, too, for Fortnite lore fans to digest. As Hope herself questioned, who was piloting the Mecha Team Leader mech? (A subordinate of the Seven?) Will the demolition of the Cube pb to its mothership reappearing? (Yes, spot below!) And however is Epic Games going to apical this adjacent year?

With the event's gameplay information complete, immoderate players reported seeing their games abruptly clang arsenic an unexpected cutscene began to air. The cinematic, which you tin ticker successful afloat below, rapidly sums up Fortnite's intelligibly now-revived archetypal storyline and makes perfectly wide that the crippled is returning to its absorption connected its heroic Seven, and their conflict against the Cube's civilization, dubbed The Last Reality.

After that, players were treated to a speedy glimpse astatine what's adjacent for the crippled (and yes, Epic Games couldn't defy making a 6-7 gag successful the process). Fortnite Chapter 7 volition statesman with our heroes enjoying beingness connected a caller representation themed astir the confederate US. There are Fortnite-y versions of Hollywood and Area 51 to explore, portion caller gameplay changes see wingsuits and drivable Reboot Vans. Everything seems beauteous chill, until The Last Reality's mothership does so crook up (and promptly blows up Fortnite's beloved Battle Bus!)

And aft that, for those inactive connected, Fortnite truly did telephone it a day. The crippled is present offline for a fig of hours, with the motorboat of Chapter 7 owed arsenic the crippled comes backmost online aboriginal tonight.

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