Fortnite map wiped out by black hole to mark end of Season 10
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Fortnite has been destroyed by a huge asteroid, and replaced with a black hole.
The in-game event wiped out the entire map and means that its millions of players are now unable to get into the game at all.
Instead, they have been encouraged to watch a mysterious live stream of a black hole.
The asteroid collision marked the end of Season 10. Developers Epic Games tend to mark the close of the game’s “seasons” with major events that can be watched within the game.
But it has led to a variety of questions about Season 11. Usually, such updates bring tweaks to the map or other alterations to the game – rather than wiping out the entire world and leaving it impossible to play.
It is not clear when or even if the game will return. (It is almost certain that it will, however, since Epic has made billions of dollars through the game.)
In the meantime, players have been encouraged to tune in to a wildly popular live stream which just shows the black hole. At some point, that will presumably reveal what is going to happen in Season 11.
Fortnite deleted everything else from its Twitter account and gave no more information about what had happened to the game.
Fans had expected Season 10 to come to a dramatic close, since Epic teased that there would be a major “The End” event over the weekend. It was also marked by a countdown timer which appeared within the game.
Players who were in the world when that timer reached its end saw a huge meteor shower fall on the map and seemingly destroy all of it. Those players then fell out of the world and the screen was replaced with the black hole – which continues to be all that is left of the game.
This map had been widely leaked in advance of the release of Season 11. But then it appeared as if it was fake, made by a fan rather than depicting the real update to the game.
But the leaked cinematic and battle pass trailer suggest that maybe this is the new map. I suppose we'll find out in a couple of hours.
Fortnite's huge "black hole" event has come to an end – but the game is still not available. The servers are now fully offline, presumably to allow the new update to be pushed out to players. A new update file has arrived with players, though they may need to restart their client or console to get it. As well as the game going offline, Fortnite's Twitter posts returned to its
There's still no clue about how long this downtime will last. They're usually a couple of hours, but this one might be shorter: people are already getting their downloads, and surely Epic has been able to do some of the work while the black hole was happening?
The game will now be fully offline for the next couple of hours, presumably as the update is pushed out. (Surprising they weren't able to do that while the black hole showed...)
