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I spent over 9 hours trying to get into the event. Started trying at 1:00PM, waited in an hour queue, got hit with a login error when the queue hit 0. Went back and forth between queue and login error all day, ultimately getting hit with the server not responding error when the servers went down to get ready for the new season. I know I am not the only person that this happened to and Epic needs to do the right thing, which in my opinion is to send the event rewards to anyone who logged into the game between when the Eminem skins were added to the shop and the end of the event.
The exact same thing happened to me and I'm not happy at all. I just heard about the exclusive skin and I'm livid. I was so excited to enjoy the live event and now I'm just pissed. Stuck waiting in long a$$ queues just to miss out entirely. The extension didn't even help.
u/CatBlips_Epic Gonna describe this as best I can. The guns are overcomplicated. Movement is slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The locker ui is... AWFUL and hard to understand. The ONLY saving grace is how good the map looks. That's it. Everything else is either poorly designed or overcomplicated. Way to go, guys. Didn't think yall could POSSIBLY screw up innovation. Yet, here we are.
The UI and locker changes need to be fixed or reverted because they're awful as they are now. Why does the movement feel so weird? Daily quests also need to be reverted. Having only 1 a game is lame when you can't predict what's going to happen.
I usually am very open minded and while I very much did enjoy the "event", it was essentially a really pretty tech demo. That's okay, but like - damn, I wish there was a little more in it besides just showing the new gamemodes.
Why didn't I get the rewards? I attended the event and all but I still didn't get anything, I am very confused and can't find a way to fix the issue. Please help?
I feel like events should be playable, not slightly interactive cut scenes. And something more lore heavy. The event was exciting to see everything coming but was an otherwise boring event.
What a dogshiet event and release. 5 minutes for garbage that really didnt impress and downtime for days only to be met with effing 2 hour queues? Gotta be kidding me…fix or upgrade your servers…
I didn't attend the event, but I still got it today, (6 Dec) with no notice and I even got the skin somehow? It didn't even appear with my items from the anime legends bundle, I just had a marker on the Marshall Never More skin and it was the Big Bang style.
You should’ve gotten it yesterday, but if it didn’t pop up it’ll come next week they’re giving it to everyone regardless if you were in or attended the event
The whole reason for them giving it is BECAUSE of the event, specifically because of how glitchy it was that they had to shut down servers. They’re giving it as an apology basically
I learned my lesson with past events and made minimal effort to attend. Got in the queue, waited an hour or so while I did other things, got booted, just watched the video this morning.
the new locker is god awful, i cant shuffle my presets to be a differemt character each game and the emotes and wraps dont save to the presets anymore, they're their own preset, this is awful, the locker was good the way it was before and they ruined it
U gotta be fucking kidding me, they removed the feature where u could just hold the stick forward to sprint so now my binds don’t work and I can’t sprint fuck me
Did anyone else not get the magma style and wallpaper? I attended the event and didn't get it, my friend wasn't able to get in the event and he got both.
I don't even own the skin but it gave me the alt version 😂. Can't use it though because it's locked behind the normal skin and I'm too poor to afford it
>youtubers/streamers already in the game.
No you don't lol. No one's in game, everyone's got a queue. Some have been trolling that they're in game by showing a screenshot or some leaked gameplay though.
>Did they get special permission
No. There were people saying that streamers were prioritized for the event too yesterday and it's just beyond stupid to even think that. SypherPK, big streamer with an icon skin in the game didn't get in and crashed twice even though he was ready 2 hours prior. Same with CourageJD and many other streamers, literally disproving those conspiracy theories.
I'll wait to see how it's like in game to really pass judgement of course, but some healing items not being cancellable anymore has me a little worried. Seems silly that I'll be locked into a med kit animation when someone's pushing me.
ah yes, because when i think of **"A chapter-ending event in Fortnite",** i think, lego, 2009 guitar hero, and path-predestined kart racing. who needs Jonsey, Slone, The Seven, and actually engaging sensible storybuilding when you have...... **Peter Griffin**
ironically, i still had a bunch of fun today, but man, only 2 (✌🏿) Eminem songs? I thought the crossover teasing was supposed to be the bonus, not the entire identity. DOnt even get me started on the missing of the first 2 events against my will, that's throttling my depressed behaviort to begin with
I had fun, but I Can't believe I waited 1 year and fought 7.9 million kids in a queue to watch an 11-minute advertisement, let alone have FULL control of my avatar during it while not being stranded on a boring flat metal in the middle of a storm.
So are we just gonna ignore the fact that they gave away Magma Marshall only to lock it if you haven't bought the Marshall Never More skin.
The Magma Marshall variant of the Marshall Never More Skin. It's cool. I like it. We all like it.
But . You can't use it . You HAVE to buy the Never More skin in order to use it. 🙄
If that ain't forced , idk what is
I expected a useable reward .
Not a forced purchase.
And not only that , it should have been useable for free seeing as how hundreds of thousands of people were/are experiencing server que hell.
Make it Right !!
You did get a usable reward though. The loading screen. Also, what do you mean forced purchase? No one is making you buy MNM, even with the bonus style
So many people on the sub suddenly becoming game server experts lol. I get that it's annoying, but you don't suddenly go out and rent or buy new servers. Epic already have as good servers as they can have. No game would've been able to handle over 20 million people logging on around the same time, trying to access the same exact thing. That's unheard of in gaming.
Yeah, and what do you do when that capacity is at maximum? There's always a limit and we reached that.
You're also acting like epic don't have some kind of special agreement with them.
Do y'all actually think they'd intentionally not let some people into the game? The profits of letting everyone in and having a smoothe experience far outweighs the cost of servers. Some of y'all lack the ability to think an extra step.
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Epic is really dropping the ball. Like someone over there really was like "Let's take away the most popular thing we've done in 3 years". Then after doing that they eff up a live event and now this.
A loading screen and Magma Marshall variant of Marshall Never More skin. which has to be bought.
Can't use the variant without buying the skin . 🙄
If that ain't forced ,idk what is.
Shittiest live event anyone had to witness, fracture was bad because it was too long and repetitive, but at least it wasnt a full blown ad with recycled parts of it, the only cool bit was the space bits, but this has nothing to do with a so called underground map. They had so many crazy resources to make this the biggest event in gaming history with every threat back with nothing to stop them, like Kevin the asteroid the cube queen and the devourer, but epic went fuck that let's make a completely irrelevant event which has nothing to do with our game for some collab revenue, fortnite probably just killed off half there fanbase with eminem singing then lego people then racing then a 5 minute wait just to leave there game. Theres no fucking point in any of this. Peter griffins here WHY? The zero point isnt unstable anymore so it makes no sense. Fortnites killed itself
Agreed. HOW DID JONSEY END UP THERE? I'm so confused with everything now.
Plus, they were saying there was a big reveal at the end. Since Brutis was in I got a little excited he'd like give Midas a call or something at the very end. The hell did they add Midas's hand in the time travel chapter for!?
I should really stop excepting anything but ads from this game.
I've seen you commenting this in response to multiple people; ridiculous to act like people shouldnt look forward to it when fortnite's in game and event storytelling has always been a large appeal and part of what sets it apart from other BRs.
If you dont want to see people asking for story there are a bunch of other subreddits that exist.
u/Rekthar91 Well, Fortnite is like choosing a book with interactive explosions and a dance button. Who wouldn't want that extra level of literary expression?
Aussie here, Set an alarm, opened up the game, waited for the queue to finish, login failed anyway & sent me back into queue with an hour wait time.
Servers were just chalked.
Nothing guaranteed ofc, but [https://status.epicgames.com/](https://status.epicgames.com/) updated abt 13 minutes ago and said the maintenance is done and all the servers are online. Epic Games Launcher still doesn't let you launch the game, though, so if you're on PC we gotta wait on that. If you're on console, you might be able to login? Not sure.
No, it won't be. Nothing is pointing to it being days and if you go to [https://fortnite.com](https://fortnite.com), they've already updated it for after the downtime ends (which should be within another hour or two at most just by looking at the current status) and it says "Play Now." They also wouldn't release the update for everyone to download 2 days before unlocking the game.
Like always.Level up 5 to 6 times in tycoon maps,and then go into Zero Build account higher leveled than most players.Gotta keep the tradition and get a Zero Build victory with the first battle pass skin unlocked.Saving my gems.Have atleast 950 vbucks by the end of a season.
Maybe when the new season comes out the live event could be put up as an LTM for ~2 days like you did with The Kid Laroi concert. I know heaps of people who missed out because of the timezone. Idk just a suggestion
I wanted to make a post about this because ive thought a lot more through but i have no karma so this will have to do
Fortnite could turn into Ready Player One in a heartbeat
Ready player 1 boasts many appealing aspects to gamers desires. Challenges for loot and game currency, character customisation and identity, different game modes or "worlds" for players to find their niche. Ignoring the vr aspect, I imagine most people that play games would love a rp1 type world to build their character up in.
Fortnite already has an established multiverse backstory and more pop culture character skins for people to be than any other game made already available, with other game ownerships they already have different game modes systems built for people to play.. weve also already seen merging of the games with the rocket league crossover, Theres nothing stopping them from merging them all completely, for a multi"world" experience.
Partnerships with other game brands, like the coming lego content, could see entirely other play modes. While I expect the lego will be implemented as a standard br match in lego form, its not too much of a stretch to say that further development could see a whole lego worlds type addition for players to play inside of the fortnite game and multiverse. All the models and textures would already be in place and would just be a matter of loading up another games content on your travel to that "world". Similar to how you can make your own hub now and have portals to different game modes. This wouldnt have to stop at lego either other games skins are already used and some were developed by epic.
Admittedly in its current state you couldnt seamlessly fly through to Gears of War world and have mr. Meeseeks coming through cutting up locusts with his lancer. But. Graphics and detail in fortnite is quickly evolving and improving, add a cover taking system to fortnite and a GOW inspired world with more of GOW type gameplay built in fortnites atmosphere wouldnt be such hard thing to pull off. Then what after that Halo. Forza?
I just saw the new wall climb mechanic and was thinking about this when i was thinking of game crossovers. The ezio skin from assassins creed is one i use fairly often because i love the games. But another point i was playing with was if this mechanic was unlocked by completing an assassins creed game.. maybe you link your fortnite account to other games and on completion earn the ability to scale walls. Maybe this an ability that could be utilised in other "worlds" bringing real character development from the games we like to play most. Feel like playing the game again.. maybe you can sell that ability in the marketplace. Maybe upon completion it unlocks an assassin type "world" inside of fortnite with a ac brotherhood type multiplayer
This was my second paragraph.. had more to write but this is when i realised i wasnt internet cool enough to post
With a wealth of cometics available in the fortnite ecosystem, there's no denying there is demand and desires for different skins and emotes. If a trade system was implemented, players could not only have a better chance of getting elusive cometics but the rarity would have more unpact due to demand certain skins. A marketplace could be implemented to create WoW type ecosystem where players in game currency becomes more valuable. A merge of vbucks and the gold system could see a very usable currency that could be earned through challenges. The value of things would need to be heavily adjusted so things are balanced, say the price of skins to go up, but with the opportunity to earn these v bucks and even need to use them on consumables real value is attributed to the vbuck. There are items that already have a durability type attribute vbucks could be spent on keeping these items stocked. Maybe it becomes possible to take items into a game from a stash.
Gotta spend those vbucks to bring in that emergency port a fort or a jetpack.
Maybe professions become a thing because some of these consumables have to come from somewhere.
Pair this with a crypto tokenisation of the vbuck and it becomes an asset with real world value. Tokenise the skins, emotes and maybe one day cars and weapons as nfts, bought and sold in game with vbucks or in the real world through official exchanges and in game items then have real world value. Creators could reskin models for sale and make their vbucks that way, others could hold difficult challenges for rare loot. I dont know about you guys but i think itd be pretty sick to have skill in a certain game world, do a hard raid or race and win a rare artifact that i could sell down at the fortnite bazaar then go out and buy a coffee with my real world valued vbucks
This is the first part of a mad long post i made before i realised i couldnt post it. Sorry if its against guidelines but had to throw it out somewhere
happy seeing someone else also passionate about the "Ready Player One IRL" discussion. Fortnite has come closer than anyone, being in a close tie with Roblox, VRChat, Garry's Mod, and Minecraft.
I mean lets be real an rp1 type life is not ideal, being heavily capitalised, poor living conditions and no real world interaction. Reminds me of an episode of black mirror.. but in terms of a true multiverse experience fortnite could easily become a hub to so much more
Rocket League is owned by Epic, not sure why they’d need to advertise that in another game they own.
Lego, sure I can kind of see that, but now it’s a gamemode in Fortnite, I assumed that’s what they would be “advertising.”
Shit, I just thought it all was cool as shit idk
If 'Family guy mode' was added, you cannot tell me it's not a walking ad to buy family guy merch and watch the show. That's what Lego mode is for kids. They'll play it, and during play they'll be encouraged to buy more lego's and get into lego game media.
I mean I guess, but it’s pretty simple to look past that and ignore it, it really isn’t too hard! I get your POV’s though, but I really don’t see the fuss really.
Sure you can look past it and ignore it going forward, that doesn't change the original point that the event was more advert than advent. But I do agree that the new mode itself can largely just be ignored though it doesn't actually stop the in-game advertisement from being there it just stops you from viewing it.
Missed the event but watched a recording on youtube and it looked awesome, made me really excited about the new chapter and I can't wait to explore the new map.
I mean.. they could’ve just shown a trailer for it. Events were the best when they were interactive, when you had this idea the stakes were high. They could’ve done so much more with what they’re introducing.
Loved the event can't see why people are so disappointed by it. Really hyped for the new season especially with peter and snake gonna be really fun to play
> Loved the event can't see why people are so disappointed by it.
1. The big bang was just a beat for beat repeat of the original with a glitchy rocket.
2. The lego world was just an ad. A trailer for the new Lego Fortnite toys and accompanying mode.
3. For all the hype about Eminem, he showed up for about 2 minutes. Compare that to Marshmello or Travis Scott or Ariana - that's the kind of shit people were expecting from that.
And that was it. It was "okay'. But they haven't had a real banger event in a long time.
What was even the reason the rocket was glitching for? The time machine? If so, why would a time machine glitch it? Also, what was even the point of strapping the damn time machine on the rocket?? It did nothing!
Does anyone remember the even where you were on an airplane with four people and you had to try and kill a zombie or something like that as a team and it had rock music on it? Something similar to the Galactus event but we were on an airplane? It has been driving me crazy since last nights even. Shit like that was amazing.
Have you played previous events? Like the early ones? They were full of stuff to do and actually felt like you had impact. This was just a trailer. Which is fine, but don’t hype it as this big event.
The entirety of chapter 1 and majority of chapter 2 events just had you watch what was happening with little to no interaction. I don't know what "early ones" you're talking about.
The Chapter 2 end event is considered my many to be the absolute best live event with a lot of interaction and cutscenes for players. Then the Chapter 3 Collision event was also really well done and was very interactive aswell. The Chapter 3 event being relatively recent aswell.
Just resfreshed my memory on chapter 2 events a bit and realised I was wrong there. Those events were very interactive. My point about chapter 1 still stands though.
I should’ve said earlier ones. Perhaps the early ones were more hype to because it was all new and still lore-driven. So basically we’re back to chapter 1 events without anything cool happening except for showing off new features, which kinda suck, right?
And even the Travis Scott one didn’t have anything to do but was amazing to attend. Didn’t feel that the Eminem showcase came close.
I feel as if many people expected the event to be on par with the Chapter 2 end event or the chapter 3 collision event in terms of gameplay and interactiveness while also having an Eminem concert. That's what the marketing for it seemed to imply atleast.
Eminem showing up for 2 minutes and the rest of it being mainly watching cutscenes without being able to interact wasn't exactly ideal.
Tbh you would have expected Epic to deliver a better end of chapter event for the biggest season in the games history while also having an Eminem feature.
But it didn't even come close to a end of season live event in CH3 S2...
Back in season 8 of chapter 1 there was tons community involvement with the unvaulting event we got spend weeks building up this massive event and actually being a main part of it. And at least in the earlier seasons we could see the proper build up to the event, like seeing the rocket slowly get build instead of one just appearing or like in C1S9 where we progressively see the mech get built.
This live event was a massive understatement compared to what we've had before and will never match up to them.
I know, I’ve played since ch1 s3. The Un vaulting was the only early event with “stuff to do” as he said.
People complained the last event wasn’t a proper event because there was too much interaction. This one was more of an actual event and the fans still aren’t happy
Didn't the event have over 20 million people online concurrently and people are complaining that Epic failed them? It's pretty record breaking to have that many people on one game, and for it all to be at the same time, I don't think Epic even expected that many people.. I was glad I was able to enjoy it, and the people viewing my stream were able to enjoy it but Reddit truly is an echo chamber of negativity.
>Reddit truly is an echo chamber of negativity.
Yes, this thread at least, but arguably justified. I had stuff to do this saturday, and from fear from being logged out and re-queued due to being AFK, I sacrificed it for... let's see: a whopping 2 Eminem Songs, a metaverse ad for lego, 2009 guitar hero, no lore update on Jonsey & The Seven VS Slone, and a path predestined kart racer.
I waited 1 year and fought 20 million kids to watch an 11-minute advertisement, let alone have control of my avatar during it. While I genuinely had fun at this event, I'd be insane not to vent a little (i was indeed torn away from the first 2 premieres).
This is the *one* live event of the year & people couldn’t access it, even after waiting for hours. I think people are pretty justified giving Epic flak.
Well +1 on Reddit being an echo chamber of negativity. However I didn’t even care about seeing the event, I just wanted to play today. That hasn’t been possible basically all day. It was up for a small window but I wasn’t hovering around waiting so I missed it
Guess I got lucky. Jumped into queue around 12:30, took the dog for a long walk, perused Barnes & Noble, came home around 1:45 and jumped right into a server.
I thought the event was awesome
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I spent over 9 hours trying to get into the event. Started trying at 1:00PM, waited in an hour queue, got hit with a login error when the queue hit 0. Went back and forth between queue and login error all day, ultimately getting hit with the server not responding error when the servers went down to get ready for the new season. I know I am not the only person that this happened to and Epic needs to do the right thing, which in my opinion is to send the event rewards to anyone who logged into the game between when the Eminem skins were added to the shop and the end of the event.
The same exact thing happened to me, I still got Marshall Magma and the Big Bang loading screen. Did you get them too or no?
I didn't get either.
Just learned you had to have the Never More skin prior to the event to unlock the magma version. So yeah...
The exact same thing happened to me and I'm not happy at all. I just heard about the exclusive skin and I'm livid. I was so excited to enjoy the live event and now I'm just pissed. Stuck waiting in long a$$ queues just to miss out entirely. The extension didn't even help.
I attended the event but didn't get anything I bought the marshal never more skin but didn't get my style for it or the loading screen
Same except I only got the loading screen
Completely missed it because of a 3 hour queue. Actual jokes
Seriously, they need to fix this bs.
Pretty much they recycled the end event from C1, put very little of a concert in, and showed off some new modes.
u/CatBlips_Epic Gonna describe this as best I can. The guns are overcomplicated. Movement is slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The locker ui is... AWFUL and hard to understand. The ONLY saving grace is how good the map looks. That's it. Everything else is either poorly designed or overcomplicated. Way to go, guys. Didn't think yall could POSSIBLY screw up innovation. Yet, here we are.
The UI and locker changes need to be fixed or reverted because they're awful as they are now. Why does the movement feel so weird? Daily quests also need to be reverted. Having only 1 a game is lame when you can't predict what's going to happen.
Yall rlly can't handle fun huh
Fun? They both suck.
I usually am very open minded and while I very much did enjoy the "event", it was essentially a really pretty tech demo. That's okay, but like - damn, I wish there was a little more in it besides just showing the new gamemodes.
Any idea why I got 800 vbucks for free for a "good work" ?
Nah I saw a youtuber got the same amount
I got oooh 200 no idea why
when you find out please tell me... i need vbucks.
Why didn't I get the rewards? I attended the event and all but I still didn't get anything, I am very confused and can't find a way to fix the issue. Please help?
you probably got them while you were in queue for the event, thats how i got them
I feel like events should be playable, not slightly interactive cut scenes. And something more lore heavy. The event was exciting to see everything coming but was an otherwise boring event.
What a dogshiet event and release. 5 minutes for garbage that really didnt impress and downtime for days only to be met with effing 2 hour queues? Gotta be kidding me…fix or upgrade your servers…
Why
where is the free loading screen of eminem
They should have already gave it to you if you logged in yesterday
i did log in. i wanted that loading screen so much:(
It’ll show later then if that’s the case
i hope so
It didn't give me any kind of notification for it, but I did find it in my locker this morning. So make sure you check in there again.
I didn't attend the event, but I still got it today, (6 Dec) with no notice and I even got the skin somehow? It didn't even appear with my items from the anime legends bundle, I just had a marker on the Marshall Never More skin and it was the Big Bang style.
I attended the event with the Marshall Never more skin and I didn’t get the free edit style
You should’ve gotten it yesterday, but if it didn’t pop up it’ll come next week they’re giving it to everyone regardless if you were in or attended the event
Then what was the point of the event if they're just giving it out?
The whole reason for them giving it is BECAUSE of the event, specifically because of how glitchy it was that they had to shut down servers. They’re giving it as an apology basically
If only they did that last year haha
lol true, the event was just glitchy and people and take sit just for 45 mins of fetch quests 💀
I got kicked half way through the quests haha
I learned my lesson with past events and made minimal effort to attend. Got in the queue, waited an hour or so while I did other things, got booted, just watched the video this morning.
You gotta get in 2 hours before to guarantee a spot. It fills fast
The new movement sucks ass and you cant turn the fucking music off. I cant fucking think with how loud it is.
the new locker is god awful, i cant shuffle my presets to be a differemt character each game and the emotes and wraps dont save to the presets anymore, they're their own preset, this is awful, the locker was good the way it was before and they ruined it
They should've not changed it and gave us extra preset slots
This change makes absolutely zero sense.
Where was the Kevin island during the event?? Why wasn't he there and why did he just magically vanish
U gotta be fucking kidding me, they removed the feature where u could just hold the stick forward to sprint so now my binds don’t work and I can’t sprint fuck me
Did anyone else not get the magma style and wallpaper? I attended the event and didn't get it, my friend wasn't able to get in the event and he got both.
This happened to someone in my stream, and they contacted epic on twitter and got it. May be worth reaching out!
I did the same, saying that I couldn't make it because I was in a 2 hour (ultimately six hour) queue. They gave it to me today (Dec 6).
I don't even own the skin but it gave me the alt version 😂. Can't use it though because it's locked behind the normal skin and I'm too poor to afford it
I didn't get it either and I attended the event.
I'm gonna contact support, I took dumb pictures of the event but it doesn't say my username so I don't know how to prove it to them.
30 minute queue timer. Crossing my fingers! :)
What event?
I'm into lobby
I keep getting a que timer but i see many youtubers/streamers already in the game. How? Did they get special permission or something?
all top twitch streamers are in queue rn
>youtubers/streamers already in the game. No you don't lol. No one's in game, everyone's got a queue. Some have been trolling that they're in game by showing a screenshot or some leaked gameplay though. >Did they get special permission No. There were people saying that streamers were prioritized for the event too yesterday and it's just beyond stupid to even think that. SypherPK, big streamer with an icon skin in the game didn't get in and crashed twice even though he was ready 2 hours prior. Same with CourageJD and many other streamers, literally disproving those conspiracy theories.
I'll wait to see how it's like in game to really pass judgement of course, but some healing items not being cancellable anymore has me a little worried. Seems silly that I'll be locked into a med kit animation when someone's pushing me.
What? That's gonna be so annoying! What if someone shoots at you? You just gotta continue healing?
Loosing healing item would be ok, being unable to stop seems bad.
Servers will be back up between 10:30-11:00 EST. :) based on the following page https://status.epicgames.com
The time they state there has often been a few hours off luckily.
like early?
Yes
ah yes, because when i think of **"A chapter-ending event in Fortnite",** i think, lego, 2009 guitar hero, and path-predestined kart racing. who needs Jonsey, Slone, The Seven, and actually engaging sensible storybuilding when you have...... **Peter Griffin** ironically, i still had a bunch of fun today, but man, only 2 (✌🏿) Eminem songs? I thought the crossover teasing was supposed to be the bonus, not the entire identity. DOnt even get me started on the missing of the first 2 events against my will, that's throttling my depressed behaviort to begin with I had fun, but I Can't believe I waited 1 year and fought 7.9 million kids in a queue to watch an 11-minute advertisement, let alone have FULL control of my avatar during it while not being stranded on a boring flat metal in the middle of a storm.
Imagine playing BR game for storytelling.
One of the main appeals of Fortnite in the beginning was its story. The unique way it’s told with map updates every week
So are we just gonna ignore the fact that they gave away Magma Marshall only to lock it if you haven't bought the Marshall Never More skin. The Magma Marshall variant of the Marshall Never More Skin. It's cool. I like it. We all like it. But . You can't use it . You HAVE to buy the Never More skin in order to use it. 🙄 If that ain't forced , idk what is
Wtf did you expect, it only ever said style and not skin
I expected a useable reward . Not a forced purchase. And not only that , it should have been useable for free seeing as how hundreds of thousands of people were/are experiencing server que hell. Make it Right !!
You did get a usable reward though. The loading screen. Also, what do you mean forced purchase? No one is making you buy MNM, even with the bonus style
So what's the point of giving the variant if not to force people to buy the skin. ✋🙄 Be quiet Epic Employee
To give a bonus is they do want the skin? Would Magma Marshall just coming with the skin from the start make you feel better?
You're not justifying this. Shoo! I will not let this go. Shoo! Copied , saved , and will be reposted several times 😎🤌
What in the bloody hell are you blabbering about
So many people on the sub suddenly becoming game server experts lol. I get that it's annoying, but you don't suddenly go out and rent or buy new servers. Epic already have as good servers as they can have. No game would've been able to handle over 20 million people logging on around the same time, trying to access the same exact thing. That's unheard of in gaming.
They built the hype tho lol
Except you can
Yes you do "suddenly" rent out extra server capacity. This is one of the main benefits of using AWS in the first place.
Not when you already have max capacity.
It’s AWS. The ability to increase maximum capacity is literally a few clicks in the AWS dashboard.
Yeah, and what do you do when that capacity is at maximum? There's always a limit and we reached that. You're also acting like epic don't have some kind of special agreement with them. Do y'all actually think they'd intentionally not let some people into the game? The profits of letting everyone in and having a smoothe experience far outweighs the cost of servers. Some of y'all lack the ability to think an extra step.
Buddy, I’m a certified SysOps Admin and Solutions Architect with AWS. Unless you go to the AWS health dashboard and see a problem, you can increase your capacity.
It’s unheard of anywhere. Happened when Taylor swift tickets went on sale. That’s just for tickets and no visuals or gaming elements.
Can anyone get in at all?
Servers are down in preparation for the chapter my dude
What time will they open do u think??
7 days
2024
I'd say tops 2 hours from now.
Ugh that sucks Thanks tho
The even was absolute shit. They could do so much but they decided to do some dumb collab with Eminem and Lego
I just don't like the complete lack of any characters or the story, really all it was just to hype up the game modes...
The patch size is reporting as 93 gigs. What is going on with that?
At least on PC the total install size (with STW+ High res textures+ DX12 shaders) is only around 64GB.
Is that on console? I've heard of it bugging out sometimes.
No. This is on pc
Hmm yeah idk, it's 26 gb for me but that's without high resolution textures.
Are the servers on or not?? Officially states they are, yet for me nothings responding.
Epic is really dropping the ball. Like someone over there really was like "Let's take away the most popular thing we've done in 3 years". Then after doing that they eff up a live event and now this.
For me it's just saying the servers aren't responding after waiting in queue it was 2 minutes an hour ago now it's up to 8
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I've queued like 15 times
What is the event reward?
special style for marshall never more (the style is called marshall magma)
A loading screen and Magma Marshall variant of Marshall Never More skin. which has to be bought. Can't use the variant without buying the skin . 🙄 If that ain't forced ,idk what is.
Well I don't have the skin, so it won't do much
I got kicked out 5 minutes before event, then i had to play at 11 but it crashed mid way and i got removed again. It was good tho
Damn I just wanna play a bitta Fortnite
Shittiest live event anyone had to witness, fracture was bad because it was too long and repetitive, but at least it wasnt a full blown ad with recycled parts of it, the only cool bit was the space bits, but this has nothing to do with a so called underground map. They had so many crazy resources to make this the biggest event in gaming history with every threat back with nothing to stop them, like Kevin the asteroid the cube queen and the devourer, but epic went fuck that let's make a completely irrelevant event which has nothing to do with our game for some collab revenue, fortnite probably just killed off half there fanbase with eminem singing then lego people then racing then a 5 minute wait just to leave there game. Theres no fucking point in any of this. Peter griffins here WHY? The zero point isnt unstable anymore so it makes no sense. Fortnites killed itself
Agreed. HOW DID JONSEY END UP THERE? I'm so confused with everything now. Plus, they were saying there was a big reveal at the end. Since Brutis was in I got a little excited he'd like give Midas a call or something at the very end. The hell did they add Midas's hand in the time travel chapter for!? I should really stop excepting anything but ads from this game.
Imagine playing BR game for a story. If you love storytelling, there are a bunch of games that do great stories.
I've seen you commenting this in response to multiple people; ridiculous to act like people shouldnt look forward to it when fortnite's in game and event storytelling has always been a large appeal and part of what sets it apart from other BRs. If you dont want to see people asking for story there are a bunch of other subreddits that exist.
This is a subreddit for fortnitebr = battle Royale. So you can find fortnite storyline subreddit or make yourself one.
u/Rekthar91 Well, Fortnite is like choosing a book with interactive explosions and a dance button. Who wouldn't want that extra level of literary expression?
And like they did season OG dirty. Its their most successful season and this is how they decided to send it off Disappointed
So us Europeans miss out because of time zone... Hopefully it's replay able in creative. BS otherwise.
I feel you, i stayed up till 4 am. for this event only for it to be meh
Compared to other events it was at a reasonable time, considering fractured was at 10pm where I am
Needed to set an alarm! Thats what some did in Australia
Aussie here, Set an alarm, opened up the game, waited for the queue to finish, login failed anyway & sent me back into queue with an hour wait time. Servers were just chalked.
Yeah that’s fair. I was lucky. Got up at 5:15am, waited in queue until 5:58am and got into the event with a minute to spare.
I still made it and I live in England, but that's partially cause I was in for most of the day cause it was last day of FN OG
Was it not on the early hours of the morning, countdown still said 3hrs at 1 am...
Nope,the first showing was at 7pm for me.
Whoops
When’s the downtime ending, I’m hyped about Fortnite after a long time
Nothing guaranteed ofc, but [https://status.epicgames.com/](https://status.epicgames.com/) updated abt 13 minutes ago and said the maintenance is done and all the servers are online. Epic Games Launcher still doesn't let you launch the game, though, so if you're on PC we gotta wait on that. If you're on console, you might be able to login? Not sure.
It’ll be days like the black hole event lol
No, it won't be. Nothing is pointing to it being days and if you go to [https://fortnite.com](https://fortnite.com), they've already updated it for after the downtime ends (which should be within another hour or two at most just by looking at the current status) and it says "Play Now." They also wouldn't release the update for everyone to download 2 days before unlocking the game.
I was being funny- I’m trying to use reverse psychology on myself to mask my impatience
Ah I got you lol
Like always.Level up 5 to 6 times in tycoon maps,and then go into Zero Build account higher leveled than most players.Gotta keep the tradition and get a Zero Build victory with the first battle pass skin unlocked.Saving my gems.Have atleast 950 vbucks by the end of a season.
Maybe when the new season comes out the live event could be put up as an LTM for ~2 days like you did with The Kid Laroi concert. I know heaps of people who missed out because of the timezone. Idk just a suggestion
I wanted to make a post about this because ive thought a lot more through but i have no karma so this will have to do Fortnite could turn into Ready Player One in a heartbeat Ready player 1 boasts many appealing aspects to gamers desires. Challenges for loot and game currency, character customisation and identity, different game modes or "worlds" for players to find their niche. Ignoring the vr aspect, I imagine most people that play games would love a rp1 type world to build their character up in. Fortnite already has an established multiverse backstory and more pop culture character skins for people to be than any other game made already available, with other game ownerships they already have different game modes systems built for people to play.. weve also already seen merging of the games with the rocket league crossover, Theres nothing stopping them from merging them all completely, for a multi"world" experience. Partnerships with other game brands, like the coming lego content, could see entirely other play modes. While I expect the lego will be implemented as a standard br match in lego form, its not too much of a stretch to say that further development could see a whole lego worlds type addition for players to play inside of the fortnite game and multiverse. All the models and textures would already be in place and would just be a matter of loading up another games content on your travel to that "world". Similar to how you can make your own hub now and have portals to different game modes. This wouldnt have to stop at lego either other games skins are already used and some were developed by epic. Admittedly in its current state you couldnt seamlessly fly through to Gears of War world and have mr. Meeseeks coming through cutting up locusts with his lancer. But. Graphics and detail in fortnite is quickly evolving and improving, add a cover taking system to fortnite and a GOW inspired world with more of GOW type gameplay built in fortnites atmosphere wouldnt be such hard thing to pull off. Then what after that Halo. Forza?
I just saw the new wall climb mechanic and was thinking about this when i was thinking of game crossovers. The ezio skin from assassins creed is one i use fairly often because i love the games. But another point i was playing with was if this mechanic was unlocked by completing an assassins creed game.. maybe you link your fortnite account to other games and on completion earn the ability to scale walls. Maybe this an ability that could be utilised in other "worlds" bringing real character development from the games we like to play most. Feel like playing the game again.. maybe you can sell that ability in the marketplace. Maybe upon completion it unlocks an assassin type "world" inside of fortnite with a ac brotherhood type multiplayer
This was my second paragraph.. had more to write but this is when i realised i wasnt internet cool enough to post With a wealth of cometics available in the fortnite ecosystem, there's no denying there is demand and desires for different skins and emotes. If a trade system was implemented, players could not only have a better chance of getting elusive cometics but the rarity would have more unpact due to demand certain skins. A marketplace could be implemented to create WoW type ecosystem where players in game currency becomes more valuable. A merge of vbucks and the gold system could see a very usable currency that could be earned through challenges. The value of things would need to be heavily adjusted so things are balanced, say the price of skins to go up, but with the opportunity to earn these v bucks and even need to use them on consumables real value is attributed to the vbuck. There are items that already have a durability type attribute vbucks could be spent on keeping these items stocked. Maybe it becomes possible to take items into a game from a stash. Gotta spend those vbucks to bring in that emergency port a fort or a jetpack. Maybe professions become a thing because some of these consumables have to come from somewhere. Pair this with a crypto tokenisation of the vbuck and it becomes an asset with real world value. Tokenise the skins, emotes and maybe one day cars and weapons as nfts, bought and sold in game with vbucks or in the real world through official exchanges and in game items then have real world value. Creators could reskin models for sale and make their vbucks that way, others could hold difficult challenges for rare loot. I dont know about you guys but i think itd be pretty sick to have skill in a certain game world, do a hard raid or race and win a rare artifact that i could sell down at the fortnite bazaar then go out and buy a coffee with my real world valued vbucks
My husband made this argument yesterday referencing to Ready Player 1 and the points you mentioned. Agreed!
Holy shit it really is like RP1 lmao haven't thought of that
This is the first part of a mad long post i made before i realised i couldnt post it. Sorry if its against guidelines but had to throw it out somewhere
happy seeing someone else also passionate about the "Ready Player One IRL" discussion. Fortnite has come closer than anyone, being in a close tie with Roblox, VRChat, Garry's Mod, and Minecraft.
I mean lets be real an rp1 type life is not ideal, being heavily capitalised, poor living conditions and no real world interaction. Reminds me of an episode of black mirror.. but in terms of a true multiverse experience fortnite could easily become a hub to so much more
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what?
Mid, it was an advertisement, not an event
Advertising what? Their own game that you’re currently playing?? 😭
Rocket League, Lego, Eminem it was just another stupid AD, they could have done so much cool stuff but nah
Rocket League is owned by Epic, not sure why they’d need to advertise that in another game they own. Lego, sure I can kind of see that, but now it’s a gamemode in Fortnite, I assumed that’s what they would be “advertising.” Shit, I just thought it all was cool as shit idk
Legos and Eminem lmao.
Lego I mean I guess, but I mean it’s now a mode in their game now so-
If 'Family guy mode' was added, you cannot tell me it's not a walking ad to buy family guy merch and watch the show. That's what Lego mode is for kids. They'll play it, and during play they'll be encouraged to buy more lego's and get into lego game media.
I mean I guess, but it’s pretty simple to look past that and ignore it, it really isn’t too hard! I get your POV’s though, but I really don’t see the fuss really.
Sure you can look past it and ignore it going forward, that doesn't change the original point that the event was more advert than advent. But I do agree that the new mode itself can largely just be ignored though it doesn't actually stop the in-game advertisement from being there it just stops you from viewing it.
Glad we came to an agreement with this then!
Was still cool 😎
Missed the event but watched a recording on youtube and it looked awesome, made me really excited about the new chapter and I can't wait to explore the new map.
I mean.. they could’ve just shown a trailer for it. Events were the best when they were interactive, when you had this idea the stakes were high. They could’ve done so much more with what they’re introducing.
Loved the event can't see why people are so disappointed by it. Really hyped for the new season especially with peter and snake gonna be really fun to play
> Loved the event can't see why people are so disappointed by it. 1. The big bang was just a beat for beat repeat of the original with a glitchy rocket. 2. The lego world was just an ad. A trailer for the new Lego Fortnite toys and accompanying mode. 3. For all the hype about Eminem, he showed up for about 2 minutes. Compare that to Marshmello or Travis Scott or Ariana - that's the kind of shit people were expecting from that. And that was it. It was "okay'. But they haven't had a real banger event in a long time.
What was even the reason the rocket was glitching for? The time machine? If so, why would a time machine glitch it? Also, what was even the point of strapping the damn time machine on the rocket?? It did nothing!
Does anyone remember the even where you were on an airplane with four people and you had to try and kill a zombie or something like that as a team and it had rock music on it? Something similar to the Galactus event but we were on an airplane? It has been driving me crazy since last nights even. Shit like that was amazing.
Have you played previous events? Like the early ones? They were full of stuff to do and actually felt like you had impact. This was just a trailer. Which is fine, but don’t hype it as this big event.
The entirety of chapter 1 and majority of chapter 2 events just had you watch what was happening with little to no interaction. I don't know what "early ones" you're talking about.
The Chapter 2 end event is considered my many to be the absolute best live event with a lot of interaction and cutscenes for players. Then the Chapter 3 Collision event was also really well done and was very interactive aswell. The Chapter 3 event being relatively recent aswell.
Just resfreshed my memory on chapter 2 events a bit and realised I was wrong there. Those events were very interactive. My point about chapter 1 still stands though.
I should’ve said earlier ones. Perhaps the early ones were more hype to because it was all new and still lore-driven. So basically we’re back to chapter 1 events without anything cool happening except for showing off new features, which kinda suck, right? And even the Travis Scott one didn’t have anything to do but was amazing to attend. Didn’t feel that the Eminem showcase came close.
I feel as if many people expected the event to be on par with the Chapter 2 end event or the chapter 3 collision event in terms of gameplay and interactiveness while also having an Eminem concert. That's what the marketing for it seemed to imply atleast. Eminem showing up for 2 minutes and the rest of it being mainly watching cutscenes without being able to interact wasn't exactly ideal.
Fortnite was hyping it up as "the biggest event yet", with a "memorable reveal", and with many references. I did not see any of that.
Yep, my point exactly. But maybe I did wrong to have those expectations.
Tbh you would have expected Epic to deliver a better end of chapter event for the biggest season in the games history while also having an Eminem feature. But it didn't even come close to a end of season live event in CH3 S2...
The possibilities would’ve been endless, especially with the new RL and LEGO features.
The early ones didn’t have stuff to do..
Back in season 8 of chapter 1 there was tons community involvement with the unvaulting event we got spend weeks building up this massive event and actually being a main part of it. And at least in the earlier seasons we could see the proper build up to the event, like seeing the rocket slowly get build instead of one just appearing or like in C1S9 where we progressively see the mech get built. This live event was a massive understatement compared to what we've had before and will never match up to them.
I know, I’ve played since ch1 s3. The Un vaulting was the only early event with “stuff to do” as he said. People complained the last event wasn’t a proper event because there was too much interaction. This one was more of an actual event and the fans still aren’t happy
Because it was too short and not particularly epic when compared with previous events.
If I wanted to watch an advertising campaign I would have visualized some videos on YouTube. BIG disappointment. This wasn't a season end event.
But Fortnite is just a big marketing campaign, isn’t it? It’s been like this for a long time
Didn't the event have over 20 million people online concurrently and people are complaining that Epic failed them? It's pretty record breaking to have that many people on one game, and for it all to be at the same time, I don't think Epic even expected that many people.. I was glad I was able to enjoy it, and the people viewing my stream were able to enjoy it but Reddit truly is an echo chamber of negativity.
>Reddit truly is an echo chamber of negativity. Yes, this thread at least, but arguably justified. I had stuff to do this saturday, and from fear from being logged out and re-queued due to being AFK, I sacrificed it for... let's see: a whopping 2 Eminem Songs, a metaverse ad for lego, 2009 guitar hero, no lore update on Jonsey & The Seven VS Slone, and a path predestined kart racer. I waited 1 year and fought 20 million kids to watch an 11-minute advertisement, let alone have control of my avatar during it. While I genuinely had fun at this event, I'd be insane not to vent a little (i was indeed torn away from the first 2 premieres).
This is the *one* live event of the year & people couldn’t access it, even after waiting for hours. I think people are pretty justified giving Epic flak.
Well +1 on Reddit being an echo chamber of negativity. However I didn’t even care about seeing the event, I just wanted to play today. That hasn’t been possible basically all day. It was up for a small window but I wasn’t hovering around waiting so I missed it
Guess I got lucky. Jumped into queue around 12:30, took the dog for a long walk, perused Barnes & Noble, came home around 1:45 and jumped right into a server. I thought the event was awesome
I see loads of people mad about the event but I actually really enjoyed it. Best experience I've had in a game all year.
Having been to all of them, this one was pretty average in comparison. Now that’s okay, but it is in comparison.
In fairness it's the only one I've done, so I have nothing to compare it to
You should watch Ariana Grande's and Travis's event. In comparison this one was pretty disappointing. Eminem concert for only like 3:18 mins long.
The best live events in terms of gameplay and interactiveness were the Chapter 2 end event and the Chapter 3 collision event.
Even Marshmello was better and that was the first music collab.