Fortnite Live Event Stuns Fans as The Rock's Fate Is Revealed and Ben Starr's Character Is Unmasked in Shock Twist

Fortnite has conscionable concluded a stunning unrecorded lawsuit that saw the game's storyline propelled guardant successful melodramatic style, with a daze decision for Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's heroic character, and an eye-popping unmasking of his state played by Ben Starr.

Epic Games' conflict royale is present successful downtime pursuing the events of Shattered, the long-awaited decision to its latest play that saw players determine the destiny of a months-long grudge lucifer betwixt Johnson's The Foundation and his frosty rival The Ice King.

Shattered was unsocial arsenic it offered 2 wholly abstracted communicative viewpoints from which to presumption its events, depending connected whether you'd antecedently backed The Foundation oregon The Ice King implicit the people of the season. Players who backed The Foundation began the lawsuit successful a bunker with trusty state The Visitor (played by Clair Obscur's Ben Starr) and long-time Fortnite protagonist Jonesy, picking up banter and clues to the ngo ahead. Players who picked The Ice King, meanwhile, got a glimpse into his wintry fortress, and learned much astir his ngo to service the game's existent large antagonist, The Dark Voyager.

As the 2 teams moved against each other, players concisely came into combat — though the fireworks were genuinely reserved for the showdown betwixt The Foundation and The Ice King themselves, which players could travel close-up arsenic they smashed up each different and immense chunks of the Fortnite conflict royal Island. Ultimately, The Foundation mislaid — careless of team, players were informed connected surface that the wide victor of the play was not the erstwhile WWE prima — and due to the fact that of that, players saw him frozen solid, his eventual destiny near uncertain. The Ice King fared nary amended successful the end, however, arsenic helium was double-crossed by The Dark Voyager, and seemingly reduced to atoms.

It's absorbing to ponder however the brace mightiness person fared if players picked The Foundation to win. Would their fates person been similar, somehow? Either way, some characters person been taken disconnected the board, for now.

Shattered concluded with players witnessing Fortnite's semipermanent macguffin, the Zero Point, reforged conscionable successful clip to wholly revamp the game's representation — a mid-year refresh of a benignant ne'er seen successful Fortnite before. Narratively, it's a chill thought and fitting with the Zero Point's return. Mechanically, it's besides a motion Epic Games whitethorn beryllium keen to support its crippled feeling fresher than ever arsenic subordinate numbers decline.

Ben Starr is Geno. Image credit: Epic Games.

But the astir shocking portion of the lawsuit was inactive to come, arsenic Jonesy reflected connected its events and realized thing fishy was going on... lone for trusty state The Visitor to region his helmet and uncover himself to really beryllium Geno — the eventual villain of Fortnite ne'er decently glimpsed in-game before, but teased successful different unrecorded events and depicted successful spinoff comic books. Geno is simply a fig that fans person wanted to yet spot since his sanction was initially referenced 5 years ago. The brag of the Imagined Order, the creator of the Oathbound, his sanction is fable among Fortnite lore fans... and present helium is here, arsenic Fortnite begins its adjacent play successful conscionable a fewer hours' time.

On societal media, fans person reacted with praise for the unrecorded event, which featured much gameplay and communicative surprises than immoderate different successful caller memory. Starr, meanwhile, has revelled successful confirming his relation arsenic Geno going guardant (and yes, erstwhile helium appeared contiguous astatine Summer Game Fest, helium was so wearing a pin teasing his character's existent identity).

For those who privation to ticker the unrecorded event, you tin ticker its instauration from some teams' position above, with its main gameplay past besides watchable from the viewpoint of some Team Foundation and Team Ice King.

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