Last night’s Fortnite live event, The Device, was a predictably explosive end to the game’s current season – whether you were in-game or watching online due to its server capacity issues. But, perhaps more importantly, it was also a major staging ground for the game’s immediate and longterm future.
Fortnite’s storm is gone, a new curtain of water now menaces the island instead, and Fortnite’s story has suddenly gotten a lot more complicated, as players were briefly allowed outside of its reality-bending simulation for the first time.
Let’s recap the event, including its Easter eggs, and then delve into what it all may mean.
