45.000 people are connected to streaming Fortnite on Twitch, and another 20.000 do the same on the official YouTube channel. Retransmission? A looping animation of what appears to be a black hole. When will the joke end? Is Fortnite over for good?
The mystery of numbers has been solved
Although most of the time the streaming reproduces a constant sound, at some moments of the broadcast some apparently random numbers have appeared that made many users suspicious. After mistakenly relating them to GPS coordinates, users finally discovered that the numbers referred to certain words in the audio messages left by the Visitor, recordings that could be found in Season 10 as challenges.
Gathering each of the words placed in the position indicated by the published numbers, we obtain the following sentence:
I was not alone. Others are outside the loop, this was not calculated. Zero point is now inevitable.
This phrase refers to the event of the meteorite explosion, since the players were floating before the impact to later be sucked into the hole.
The return date
The https://t.co/0TDeMk7Bda code was updated so the-end thing has its end_time as Thursday at 4am EST
i really doubt they're really going to make people not play for 4 days or whatever straight but its epic lmao
take it as you will pic.twitter.com/P6gYB7lWHw
- Lucas7yoshi - FNBR Leaks / News (@ Lucas7yoshi) October 14, 2019
With the numbers controlled, now we only have to know when the day will be chosen for the return of the game, something that seems to be hidden in the source code of the Fortnite page itself. Reviewing the code, you can find the reference /the-end, an event that according to the web seemed to conclude on Tuesday the 15th at 12:00. With this information in our knowledge, everything indicated that we would have to wait just over 24 hours to start the game again, however, in the last few hours the reference has changed, now pointing to Thursday the 17th at 10:00.
Is Epic playing with the illusion of users? How long will he continue to prolong this suffering?
Updated: It seems that on the official website of China, Epic games has published a banner in which it can be read that the culmination of the black hole will occur on Tuesday the 15th, so, taking into account the time change, it is possible that we will see the end of this story in the next few hours.
Fortnite China just announced that the new chapter starts on October 15! (Thanks to @Zer2o for the screenshot), we might actually get a downtime announcement tonight.. pic.twitter.com/8e2hC0e5Kv
— HYPEX – Fortnite Leaks & News ? (@HYPEX) October 14, 2019
Collateral damage
That one of the most played games of the moment disappears from one day to the next, has generated a storm among the public. On the one hand, the broadcast of yesterday's event brought together more than 6 million people between the Twitch broadcast and the YouTube broadcast, that's not counting the viewers who stayed hooked to other channels.
Such is the concern about the blackout, that even the official PlayStation account had to post a tweet informing that all V-Bucks and all add-ons purchased by players are safe. This is certainly a pretty big concern, as many users have bought a lot of add-ons over these 10 seasons, so losing them would not be welcome news.
Please be assured that your inventory of items and V-Bucks are secure during the Fortnite Blackout. For any other Fortnite questions, please visit https://t.co/dQ6gUj445z.
- Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) October 13, 2019