The Rise and Fall of Fortnite Events 

Most of the opinions in this video are my own, if you disagree that's totally ok! I just wanted to talk about how the state of Fortnite lately :)

Honestly in my personal opinion the reason why the end event for Chapter 3 was awful to many people was because of it's length and just yet very fast paced story.

What really disappointed me is that for all that time I was expecting a PvE event where you had to defend the island from the chrome expansion and the Harald and eventually had an ending where you either defeated them or had to escape because of chrome taking completely over the island and beyond. It would have just been perfect but apparently the developers thought a 2 minutes cutscene would have done the work.

I think if winning or losing actually mattered to how the map is changed, it would be a lot more interesting and fun. And it would open up the option for players to pick sides in events and show what outcome the community would like to see more. Also I think if Fortnite incorporated more natural map changing in game hints or build ups to the next season that you can interact with and don’t lead to dead ends or confusion. In my opinion event lost me when it just became a ride instead of interactive, interesting and curious happenings around the map. One last thing Collabs are cool to see your favorite characters in game but most of the time they seem to not be worth all there hype and it seems like sense they first started doing collabs they have lost a lot of their originality that really brought interest in the beginning. Thanks for reading, hope at least some people agree with me

One thing I've noticed with earlier events is they didn't always need countdowns or an anticipated build up. You'd just be playing the game and things would go on. It felt natural, like Fortnite was a world of its own that played by its rules whenever. Even while you're minding your business, takin down enemies 🤣

The way events can be fixed is having a mix of gameplay and story. Like sky fire or cubed event. You could walk around and shoot monsters and all that while knowing the story. In chapter 3 we got the mech event which we used the mech in the event. We also got story during it. Making it a great event. Having a balance of story and playing during the event makes the last events great

I think half the problem is that the events have become TOO INTERACTIVE - Events started out as you just sitting back and watching the action unfold infront of you. I'm not saying interactive events are a bad thing though, I really enjoyed Operation: SkyFire and the Chapter 2 Finale. But the events like The Devourer of Worlds, Zero Crisis, and Collision had more interaction and shooting than actual action and story. The Fracture event was basically ALL INTERACTIVE ONLY, except for the two minute cutscene at the beginning which was a letdown and the chapter 4 trailer at the end which got posted on youtube an hour later anyway.

Although I do agree that Fortnite has had it’s issues, I think The Device, The Galactus Fight and Zero Crisis were amazing and don’t deserve the hate that they got

I think that what made the C3 finale especially disappointing was the paired facts that the whole live event including the cut scenes were leaked, and everyone was waiting for Midas or some storyline, but they did nothing…

Imagine this as the chapter 3 live event. You get in the lobby with 4, being at the reality tree waiting until the counter goes down, it will just be like the cinematic you see herald appear and she gets destroyed by rockets. You hear people cheer and soon after you hear the music rise just as the huge herald rises. A small boss fight begins, she keeps smacking the tree chroming parts of it leading you to the middle as it goes over to the cinematic. Idk how it would go after this, but would've been way better then what happened

the issue with live events in my opinion was when they started treating them as "events". It's not something unpredictable anymore, and it loses all the surprise when they start hyping it up on twitter and make it its own gamemode. Another piece of it that kind of stole the magic from me was trying to make the events more like cutscenes now you have specialized gameplay and it seems more like a "cinematic" than an event. going back to season 4, having those little meteorites drop randomly in matches during normal was crazy because it genuinely felt like something that wasnt supposed to happen. that feeling of mystique is completely gone nowadays

Honestly, my favorite events were the ones where you would just sit there and watch the madness unfold. The only event that I love that doesn’t follow this rule is skyfire.

The events aren’t as exiting anymore, I especially loved the build up with different things happening around the map 😌

I feel like the theory that we're going to be reliving the story is cool, and seeing how events would play out after this full on reset in Chapter 4. Personally we need to let Epic breathe. They've had suffered a massive case of burn out and they just need time to find their magic.

"It's just point and shoot" Yeah... that's fortnite, that's literally every shooter game tf do you expect?

I think we can all admit the the galactus event was insane

The Chapter 3 end event (The Herald) was the first live event I ever played in, and I must agree that I was very disappointed by how short-lived it seemed

As someone who didn’t experience a single Chapter 1 event, all the events were insane! Honestly, people should just lower their expectations but still stay positive for whatever that could come

in my personal opinion, Chapter 2 Season 7 Operation Skyfire, was the best event I ever played. It was fun playing with friends and watching the event unfold. It brought so much joy! Then Chapter 2 Season 8’s event happened and it was pretty good. Then everything after that was just disappointing! Hopefully Fortnite can pull off what they’ve done before: Redeeming themselves with events.

I personally believe that the leaks play a big role in shaping public opinion . Most of the highlights of the events are already known to the players and they feel underwelming.

What I think most the community want is an event where we lose. I know we did (kind of) lose in the Chapter 3 finale but we just won again but rebuilding the map. For example maybe we could have lost in the Chapter 3 finale and then Chapter 4's map could have been all or most of the area's surrounded by chrome with some of the communities favouries area's from Chapter 1 and 2.

They should have a live event where the bad guys win for once

Fracture was just so disappointing to me. The whole season I'm hyped up for more lore about The Nothing, which was referenced a lot in C3S4. It's been teased for years. It was even included in Canny Valley Act 3 in STW over 4 years ago now (Dec 2018). They thought it was a negative energy coming from the Storm King's domain. They never knew it was more than that. Then it was referenced for the first time in BR as a secret message in the black hole event in 2019. (Immediately following that event, 2 weeks later we had the Storm King LTM. "Coincidence"?) Then not referenced again until it popped up in some of the Cube Queen's stuff in 2021 right before Chapter 2 ended. (Also, "coincidentally"... one of the sequences in the Ariana Grande tour was the Storm King again....) Finally we get references in C3S4.. including a music pack that directly references part of the secret text from 2019's black hole 'Nothing is inevitable'. And also quests from a disembodied voice coming from TVs for Bytes to do. So I'm hoping for even more revelations in the event. But then they hurriedly chrome and destroy the island in a cinematic with no dialog. And then give us 40 minutes of creative mode fetch quests to jump start the Zero Point so it can make a new island? I couldn't even see everything in that creative map. There should've been an actual in-game event. Then the creative map could've been available as an optional experience until they took the servers down for downtime. It didn't make any sense why we could be on an island looking at the completed map, but not able to go play it yet anyways.

In my opinion, the only bad event is Fracture. The rest are amazing imo edit: idk, big bang probably goes as the second worst event for me. it was fun, but just a promo for creative mode

I mean, I think the old events were just much smaller, and since they were old, we are nostalgia blinded and think they were better The final 3 events in chapter 1 were great, but that was just them getting more skilled and more comfortable with making events Look at skyfire and the end chapter 2 Those were freaking amazing, some of the best looking and most intense events out there. Seriously, if we were to get another butterfly event or cube event now, everyone would be pissed Sure, fracture was really bad, but that’s one mishap in the midst of super well produced experiences In chapter 1 we didn’t know how far epic would take it. Now, we see the skill and passion that epic has. We know how far epic can take their events; how well they can do. So to call this a “downfall” is a super unfair statement, since every event has just gotten better visually and story wise. Come on, they got the freaking rock in the game and that was a super memorable moment. Chapter 3 was one of the most loved chapters, and the c2 end was one of the best events they’ve had.

How it should of gone: We fight the Herald for 5 minutes until we get fully chromed. Cutscene for 5 minutes: The Herald is about to release the Nothing onto reality zero until she gets stuck in the reality tree (thanks to Bushranger). All the sudden Midas has arrived with a de-chromify machine he's been working on, un-chroming everyone including us, the other loopers, and the seven. Gameplay: Next we run away from the spreading chrome before it consumes us again. We run from the Reality tree to Chonker's speedway where Jones and AIME are waiting in the blimp. Cutscene: We enter the blimp, strap ourselves into our seats and evacuate the loop using Jones' loop breaker, until the Herald gets bigger and starts chroming the blimp. But with a fully chromed island, a black Rift opens to reveal the Nothing, the Herald freezes before she could fully escape and destroy the loop breaker. The Nothing is about to chrome the Zero Point and we are going to be part of it until Midas sacrifices himself by using all his golden touch to turn the blimp gold, then he jumps off back to the chromed island and defeats the Nothing by bringing the Devourer back to life. As The Devourer blast its ray on the Nothing, reality zero begins to crack like glass, then pieces of the island rip out of the ground from the fracturing tornadoes and at the end, reality zero explodes. Then the Last Reality arrives abducting the zero point with the Cube Queen and Bytes. Until it breaks free are zooms away. Gamplay: We spend the next 10 minutes reforging the island with new pieces coming every minute. Before that, the zero point pulls Jones into itself so he can find the Foundation and the rest of the seven. Finally we have the ending cutscene with Paradigm activating Zero Fusion to bring the island back together. Is this the type of event we should have got? Let me know in the replies!

I remember at the unvaulting event me and my friends were fighting over if this was going to be a volcano event or a vault event, it was both memories :)

I honestly felt like collision and the chapter 2 finale were by far the most memorable, there’s just something special for both of them, loading up with the squad and doing this but Fracture was so over hyped, so many answers regarding the storyline could have been answered like “Where is the Foundation” “What is the nothing” and way more and half through the event voice chat just cut off and all we got is Geno coming off from nowhere

Epic: *Teases the loop breaker project, Midas return, and Gold vs Chrome* Also Epic: I have a great idea, lets let the Herald get taken out within a minute, and make them do quests for 20 minutes. *What could possibly go wrong*

Personally, anything before the island flip and including the island flip were the pinnacle of Fortnite. Sure, some events were better than others, but chapter 3 as a whole was kind of the spiral to Fortnite’s downfall, and the events

I feel like less mini games and more amazing cinematics are a great way to go fans of Fortnite are playing the game all the time when there is an event we don’t wanna just keep playing we wanna chill with the lobby and watch something amazing happen

In my opinion, the best live event I have seen or played in is the Final Showdon, the event that ended season 9 chapter 1

I say that maybe they'll make it better later in this chapter we just have to hope for the best!!

Epic games: so what did you think of the fracture event The whole community: wait, we missed the event?

My first event was that solo one. I didn't mind it... I knew nothing really as I had only played the game a handful of times since first playing a couple games in chapter 2 season 3. Chapter 2 season 7 was the first full season I played and I loved its end event, even if I didn't know the lore. That season has the most memories for me and was the most fun. I liked the other events as well... but the chapter 3 finale was definitely not as expected. The storyline seemed to disappear. That was it? The master of chrome who introduced herself by seemingly killing 2 of the Seven as a chrome blob only to get killed by the chrome? I don't get it. I thought we'd have the comics story play out in game... they set up the story in game after all. What happened to the Nothing? I think they forgot how to tell a story. Right now, the story is boring if there is one at all.

I won't lie, I actually liked the Collision event. Riding a mech and taking down blimps was pretty cool imo.

I love the way they used to add things to secret like the pirate ship getting closer and the ice berg slowly getting closer and the little hints of the volcano and the comet slowly getting closer man good times

Okay personally, the only bad live events have been C1 Season 7, C2 Season 1 (Star Wars), and Fracture. Fracture could have been better if there was less time repairing the island (pretty much none of what we did is actually there) and spent time actually witnessing the chrome take over the whole island and fighting the herald to no avail, would have been a perfect contrast to the Chapter 2 Finale

Honestly I think all of the live events were great, though Fracture was one of the lower ones (but it was still really cool for what it was). I think the problem for me is that it didn't really cap off Chapter 3, it just launched Chapter 4. If what we got was half of the event and the other half was on-island, fighting Chrome zombies or a boss or something, all while things get worse and worse, then we get pushed back to the Reality Tree and the rest of the event takes place, it would've been one of the best

dude rewatching all these events that i went to - its seriously giving me goosebumps

I remember when the events were something special. Now they just feel rushed. Especially the most recent one

The chapter 3 Finale was my first event. I had been following the fortnite storyline for a while but had been unable to play until chapter 3. I was really excited for the finale but was really disappointed by the anticlimactic Herald fight and doing fetch quests for 40 minutes.

I had this idea for a finale event since chapter 2, but I’ll update it for chapter 4. So basically it starts off just like skyfire, with us entering the antagonists’ base and venturing our way to a certain point. Then, we are lead into a dark room where the door closes and we are faced with whatever evil being is terrorizing the island around that time. And we jump into a cutscene mid event like in the chapter 2 end event, where slone comes out of nowhere and redeems herself, bringing a bunch of other characters to fight by her side, and is loopers sit there and watch, just like the old days. Then, we are launched out of the base as we discover the zero point has been exposed. We have to then watch the chapter 4 map slowly blow up like in guardians 3 when the high evolutionary destroys his world. We then have to enter a couple small ships as we exit the island’s atmosphere and watch our new home be destroyed like in Thor Ragnorok. We are then forced to see the zero point do what it did in season x’s end event, and we get sucked into the zero point, but then, the zero point scans our memories, and gives us 2 options. To either a: travel back to chapter 2’s map for chapter 5, or to the chapter 3 map for chapter 5. (In conclusion, a jam-packed event mixed with a few elements from previous events like skyfire and the chapter 2 and 1 end events, all with a nice ending that gives us choice like the unvaulting event, only this time, we decide what our chapter 5 map is) Give me any suggestions and feedback in the replies, I’d love to hear it!

I will say the device and galactus event were underrated as they were more story events then cinematic events

The chapter 4 lunch event was most likely develop using cretive 2.0, that would explain why it felt like a creative map rather than a live event.

You can’t really say Fortnite events are no longer good when the past 3 events before fracture were amazing

I loved all of those events especially the zero point turns to stone

Great video, u sounded like matt patt for a while. 😂

I think that the old events are better, being a spectator was better than events like cinematics, it's interesting how now we interact in the events, but I feel that the old events were better

I hope they add an LTM to replay events for those who want to relive or experience any event because most of these were incredible (except fracture).I know this sounds stupid but just take a minute to think about it

Bro the marshmellow event is so nostalgic for me. First event other than the ice King i played

i do think that leaks effect the event a little bit, but for the past 2 events, they felt like playing a coop/singleplayer game

Fun fact: the voice of agent Jonsey (Troy Baker) is also the voice of Joel from the last of us

As a someone who's been playing since chapter 3 I've noticed on how other events seem to look exciting and surprised, the collision event was ok, the fracture event was just boring because it was very long, I have hope the next future events be better that it will make memories for many players

This video brought me so much nostalgia and remembering of being a part of all of this events

I've always imagined an event with a post apocalyptic theme, like another borderlands crossover or a Mad Max crossover. Maybe over the season, the north west part of the island (fall area) will slowly became hotter and hotter, the water level lowers. The grass becomes a dirty yellow. Then an alternative version of Rust lord, maybe something called the Emperor of Scrap (Similar to season X's alternate styles of already existing skins) will replace The Ageless, and the entire north west becomes a large desert with a lot of broken down machinery. Then near the end of the season, maybe the Neo Tokyo part of the map will revolt against the scrap yard?

Well Well Well…regnet Event was just one whole fucking animation

I don’t care what other people said about the Star Wars event they did a great job. The stormtroopers patrolling the tie fighter crash sites, lightsabers, and getting the Millennium Falcon as a gift was amazing. 👏

We used to have massive monster fights and alien ufos and floating islands blowing up . The fracture event had us watching cutscenes and doing chores for the magic space marble

Glad i missed fracture but i change my mind about collision lime we are just shooting stuff like bro and the comics reveals what happens after the collision event.

Surprised you didn't mention that the Unvaulting event didn't work for 50% of players too

Something that im not sure if you're aware of about how bad the fracture event was was that it wasn't just how the event was designed, but thousands upon thousands of people, even big name streamers, got kicked from the event and couldn't rejoin. Every time you've brought up the event, thats something that you haven't said but have said it about other events

Tommy love the videos man, just wondering if you could do a q&a one day?

seeing so many creators get together in queues with other creators watching big chapter 1 events is so nostalgic

It’s so sad that fracture was such a let down with all the hype that was behind it

Live events are just amazing no matter what others say I love live events.

11:54 The music made up for it. The event soundtrack was Beautiful

The chapter 2 end event was mostly focused on the seven and IO not much the cube queen apart from the beginning Fracture had such a massive build-up except the actual story parts were in a cutscene then a 40 minute long period of just doing chores

I still think the device event is severely underrated. It had great music, great story, and a fantastic ending. Turning the storm into water was so cool for both gameplay and story

I think the fracture event was the worst since almost all the servers in my country over loaded and everybody crashed I wasn’t sad I was just disappointed

I agree with the last Fortnite event missing the mark. I actually got kicked out in the middle of it, but I still got to watch the rest. I have more questions than answers. BUT I still hold out hope that the events will turn around. I still like the story, but I definitely need more answers.

I also think that watching the events with seeing the characters of the other players in the lobby was way better than seeing just your character

I think we just to wait before Epic can make history again, I’m sure we’ll get a good event in no time. Great work T5G!

The fact The Cube Queen took a whole season to charge up her attack for Chapter 2 and sorta failed to destroy the map was so embarrassing compared to The Herald becoming Chrome and 1 shotting both Chapter 2 and 3 within mere seconds and she was no where to be seen during the whole Chapter 3 Season 4 event just the chrome (Npc at her landing spot doesnt count)

Definitely agree with the events. My all time favorite has to be Galactus though. Loved AC/DC playing while taking out those robots.

I guess we got to wait until the next concert then? Or maybe a whole event where we fight Geno/The Ageless and a Variant of Slone as we were shown in the skin voting concept thing.

We have to appreciate what he does in his videos thank you Tommy

I remember I was so hyped for the fracture event. But then it turned out to be one of the worst events in Fortnite history

Galactus event and the device event was really good...... The one problem with galactus was that we all knew we would defeat him... But the zeropoint exposing, battle bus driving, iron man saving us is stilll super memorable.. ..... Even the device event was so good. Like it opend the reality of fortnite to us.... And when we saw the tsunami storm, It was sooo good

And now the only interactivity of Big Bang was "hold to watch better". I just want actually unexpected stuff, and something for me to do during it. Skyfire got it perfectly, why can't they just build off that

I personally thought every event besides the latest one was awesome and will never get tired or the point and shooting I feel like the latest event was the only bad one

I don’t think the time for these events are over, all we can do know is hope for a new event that’s good, has a good plot twist and can cause chaos

11:32 good transition to nick to ali to nick

I think characters talking to you every couple of weeks kind of kills the mysterious atmosphere that leads up to events

I think one problem is that the seasons aren’t really theme anymore I miss the theme seasons like the space the pirate or the future themes now for the past couple seasons it only has been war themed

No matter what people say or how confusing the story can get, Fortnite really knows how to make their events cool as hell

The chapter 2 end event was planned out all the way back in chapter 2 season 2 as astro jacks backbling shows a purple cube a blue cube and a gold cube

bro wait there going to hear these and and end this season with a banger

here from the big bang. Didn't age very well

We really need epic games to listen in on this, I desperately feel like the game will die off sooner or later, or a few months now that chapter 4 began, if we need live events, listen in on the whole video. They will know soon enough, and the feeling will come back, and the game will be saved just in time. All we need, is them to listen and to follow in on what the game and live events truly needed....

I think that there's some work to do with Unreal 5, it's still on the first days of work with, that's why it may take a bit to make stable and see again new & more expresive events

i feel like what killed it was dialogue. in season 1 no-one ever talked, so there was no explanation for the rocket or the world we were in, and it felt like it was happening around us, we weren’t the main character. mystery was a lot of the fun.

Fortnite Chapter 3season 4event was my firs grand finale the reason is because i accidantly turn off my ps4 on chapter 2 season 8 event and i missed so i didnt get to experience chapter 3 event was the worst

i feel like since fracture was so bad the next event will be very very good

I started playing in ch2 s3 so maybe since the Galactus event was my very first, I feel like that was just the best. And i had missed the mecha showdown event by 10 mins because I was in a car. I still regret it to this day. But the fracture event was just so disappointing i had actually quit playing for a while even though it was a new chapter.

The galactus event was actually my favorite event and I didn’t think it was predictable

I kinda feel like the events are going downhill the more the story is explained. I think a big part of the hype for earlier events was knowing that they were all apart of a much MUCH bigger story. But now that we’ve had most of that story explained to us, it kinda just feels more like exposition in between seasons. Don’t get me wrong, they’ve still been fun, but I don’t think they’ll ever be able to capture the hype and excitement from older seasons.

The problem isn’t the predictability because almost everything in each of the earlier events were predicted by the community. The actual problem is the fact that the community is constantly leaking everything actual months early. That’s also been the problem with the last few years. We already know everything with the game. The game was only fun during chapter 1 because of the shock factor. We had absolutely no idea of what would’ve happened. You can see that primarily in the design of the cattus

15:26 yeah, saw a comment from reddit that summarized it pretty well. "they had us out there slaving for orbs"

I remember playing the collision event… I wish I could play it again