- For the Spray of the same name, see The End (Spray).
- For the Music Pack of the same name, see The End (Lobby Music).
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The End is an event in Battle Royale that occurred on the end of Season X. It started on October 13, 2019 at 2PM ET, similar to The Final Showdown. It was the final event to take place during Chapter 1, hence the name, "The End." Construction for the event began on September 13 and ended on September 23.
Overview
At the start of the event, the rocket at Dusty Depot took off and rifted away into the sky, like it did in season 4, but unlike before, it went into a rift much sooner after it launched. All the rifts above the rift zones activated. A single rocket came out of the rift over Greasy Grove, it flew down and turned upwards, flying past Dusty Depot and into a rift over Lonely Lodge. The other rifts over the rift zones created 6 additional rockets that flew around into their own rifts (one for each of The Seven). They each came out of these rifts and proceeded to aimlessly fly around the island, then near the meteor, then eventually crashing into the same rift, one at a time. They arrived behind the Frozen Meteor and made a rift in front of it. All 7 rockets collided with this rift multiple times, looping around the meteor until it unfroze and dropped into the rift. A few seconds later, a rift appeared above Loot Lake and one rocket came out. It pointed a laser at the Zero Point (the rift above Loot Lake) (a callback to The Blast-Off Event) and crashed into it, creating a shockwave that launched players into the sky, causing them to be in a permanent floating state. Shortly after, a much bigger rift opened up and the meteor, surrounded by the remaining 6 rockets, dropped onto the bubble surrounding Loot Lake as the rockets dispersed to maintain a safe distance. The meteor struggles, but eventually destroys the bubble.
This ultimately caused the frozen Zero Point's explosion to unfreeze, and all of its energy released onto the island, further knocking players back, and causing the rockets to disappear into rifts. The Rocket, then broke through a rift and hit the Zero Point, which caused it to destabilize more. Finally, the meteor and 6 Rockets come out and the rockets rift away, while the Meteor crashes into the Zero Point with immense pressure. The Zero Point explodes and begins to contain itself, along with the island.
After the event, players were greeted to a black screen with a small object with the appearance of a black hole emitting blue light. Over time, numbers would appear around it. During this state, if you were to enter the KONAMI code (UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B/CIRCLE A/X ENTER/MENU/OPTIONS/PLUS), you would be able to play a mini-game that replicates the Durrr Burger arcade game seen in the Season 9 trailer. The mini-game was previously playable during the Fortnite World Cup livestreams in-game.
18 different numbers appeared around the black hole. The numbers are 11, 146, 15, 62, 87, 14, 106, 2, 150, 69, 146, 15, 36, 2, 176, 8, 160, and 65. When put into comparison by the number of words in all of the Visitor's recordings from the Season X's Out of Time Challenges, it states "I was not alone. Others are outside the loop. This was not calculated. The Nothing is now inevitable". During this time, when pressing Save the World or Creative, Ray from Save the World says that she is fine and she is staying home to save lives.
All accounts owned by Fortnite on social media were blacked out and all of their posts were hidden, the only one remaining being a link to a live stream which showed a live feed of the black hole.
On October 15th, The Zero Point finally reformed itself and rearranged the matter of the Battle Royale island, causing Chapter 2: Season 1 to start.
Trivia
- This event led to the new map and was hinted by the Week 10 loading screen, where different Outfits wave goodbye to the Battle Bus as it flew off.
- This is the only live event to take place on a Sunday.
- This live event is the longest of all the events, lasting a total of over 2 days.
- This event is the first of two events where the main game is temporarily rendered unplayable (other than being able to log in and experience the collapse of the world again), with the other event being the The Devourer of Worlds.
- During the start of Chapter 2 - Season 1, for players who purchased the Season X Battle Pass, the new spray showcasing the meteor hitting Loot Lake, was given to them. The spray was nicknamed the Comet.
- The sounds inside of the black hole apparently included the Cube, the Ice King, The Devourer, and Mecha.
- When you use the numbers for the hole and use it on Google Maps, it takes you to Christmas Island.
- Following the formation of the black hole, Fortnite did a social media black out, changing all their icons to the black hole, pausing the subreddit to prevent new posts, purging all their tweets on twitter (except for a livestream of the black hole.) https://status.epicgames.com also changed fortnites' server status to "Anomaly Detected."
