Fortnite’s Earthquake Occasion Is Cracking the Map Apart, Here’s What to Anticipate for Season 8

We’re officially within the ‘Overtime’ of Fortnite Season 7, a thing we’ve in no way seen Epic do prior to. We’ve received some fresh new challenges to tide us more than for the following two weeks, granting us a possibility at a totally free Season eight Battle Pass, and fans are still waiting for the Prisoner skin’s stage four to come to be unlockable.

Amidst all of this, even though, is a thing extra sinister spreading across Fortnite’s map. Something that’s going to literally tear the map apart by the looks of items.

Cracks have begun to appear all more than Fortnite’s map, the very first of which appeared southwest of Tomato Temple not long following Fortnite’s v.740 update went reside yesterday. Just some hours later, one more crack started to kind near the bridge just to the east of Tomato Temple.

Just some hours ago, a different cropped up, looming dangerously close to Lazy Hyperlinks. Certainly, Fortnite players aren’t strangers to cracks and tears pulling apart the battle royale planet. We currently saw the enormous rift seem inside the sky several seasons back, as component of that season’s major occasion.

So what exactly are all these cracks and fissures constructing up towards in Fortnite?

Properly, numerous believe it’s got some thing to perform using the ‘lore’ of your Prisoner skin. Obtaining been chained up at the leading of Polar Peaks, players have already been gradually but surely unlocking the Prisoner skin’s different stages with interactable items about the map.

The first was a key, found within the castle atop Polar Peak, removing the large lock off its face. Players then had to venture to a campfire shown within the week 10 loading screen within the desert biome and interact with it as a way to seemingly ‘reignite’ the god-like character. The final stage with the Prisoner, however, isn’t yet unlockable, for now.

It looks as although inside a couple of days, when the subsequent batch of Overtime challenges go reside, certainly one of them will supply players using a loading screen, which may just have already been leaked.

As we saw using the aforementioned week ten loading screen, included above, it is most likely that this can be a clue as to exactly where players must go as a way to unlock Stage 4. Even so, there’s far more which can be inferred from this loading screen than a straightforward clue to unlocking the final stage.

Let’s have a look at it somewhat more closely. Right here, we see the Prisoner unchained and hunting pretty damn potent. He’s surrounded by a circle of fires or torches, and it looks as although he’s summoning some almighty energy.

Fans think that this location should be to be identified inside the northeast corner on the map, close to Tomato Temple, but there’s absolutely nothing there but. Similarly, a leaked map seems to show a burnt location on and around Wailing Woods. This region just so takes place to coincide with all the rough area that the cracks have begun to seem on Fortnite’s map.
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All of this lines as much as recommend that yes, the Prisoner includes a aspect to play in reshaping Fortnite’s map for Season eight. Wailing Woods appears set to become burnt down and replaced, obtaining by no means actually taken off as a landing location, even soon after its underground lab revamp a few seasons ago.

For now, the specifics are still a mystery. Even so, theories on there becoming some kind of volcano are rife over around the game’s subreddit now, and would absolutely make sense offered the context. There is even a quite solid ‘lore’ theory behind The Ice King and Prisoner skins there, too.

The cracks beginning to seem and spread across Fortnite’s map are likely developing as much as the ‘Earthquake’ occasion that’s been predicted for pretty some time by fans around the subreddit.

Epic has however to officially confirm a time or date for the occasion but, which they’ve performed inside the past for Marshmello’s reside set, the rocket launch, and Kevin the Cube’s big explosion at Loot Lake. Nonetheless, with all the loading screen due to release as an Overtime challenge reward more than the weekend, we’re expecting one particular quite soon.

Fortnite has noticed a brand new competitor enter the battle royale ring within the type of Apex Legends, getting amassed 25 million players in just a couple of days.

With a free Battle Pass for subsequent season around the cards for finishing Overtime challenges, Epic will be hoping that this incentive, combined together with the anticipated earthquake occasion is going to be adequate to reignite the hype ahead with the new season and fend off the competition.

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