A group of players led by YouTuber Muselk in Fortnite managed to fill the huge crater at Dusty Depot. They relied on the help of other players and had to fend off some John Wicks.
What was the group’s plan? With the crash of the comet at Patch 4.0, a massive crater around Dusty Depot was created. A group of players led by YouTuber Muselk took it upon themselves to close this crater. However, the plan failed catastrophically several times.
Plan tests the Fortnite community
What was the plan? The plan was to land on the map, collect resources with the pickaxe like crazy, and then use them to cover Dusty Depot with wooden tiles or other materials.
The idea was: If we build it big enough, others will see how cool what we’re doing is, leave us alone, or even help us close Dusty Depot.
The idea is thus a test for the Fortnite community: Will they put down their weapons? Or will there always be someone shooting in between?
The Reaper
So much can go wrong
What difficulties were there in the plan? First of all, the crater is huge. So you need a lot of material to fill and cover the crater. The team approached this a bit naively. It took several attempts to figure out how much material they would need. With 4 people, which is only one squad, it can’t be done.
Additionally, opponents usually shoot you in Fortnite when they see you. However, the builders only wanted to farm resources and then get to work. Meanwhile, the crater is the new hotspot due to the “Hop-Rocks” and the action focuses on that.
Chance also played a role, as the storm had to spare Dusty Depot for a long time – even in a round where everything went smoothly, chance could ruin it.
These stupid John Wicks don’t understand how great what we’re doing here is
These stupid tryhards: Even if things go well in one attempt and many uninvolved people understand what the builders are planning, just one opponent is enough to ruin everything. Throughout much of the video, YouTuber Muselk gets upset about “tryhards“, that is, people who take the game too seriously. It is often assumed that a player with the Reaper skin, the John Wicks, is such a “tryhard”.
In moments when he is shot at, Muselk angrily contemplates Fortnite and the community: “How can you see something so great and then decide to destroy it?”
A teammate humorously responds: “How can the others play the game as it was intended?”
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Someone without a huge community probably wouldn’t have succeeded …
How does that end? At the end of the 20-minute video, the group actually manages it, but just barely. The storm comes, but the last planks can still be laid.
About 25,000 resources were consumed for this. A seventieth of the map is in this crater, as they calculate at the end. The operation “Let’s close Dusty Depot” took about three hours.
Was the plan successful? Well, partially. On its own or with the strength of the Fortnite community itself, it probably wouldn’t have been accomplished. The group was only able to close the crater at Dusty Depot because they collaborated with other teams who followed the YouTuber via stream and then helped out.
Parts of the community shielded the builders, while others helped with construction. It is hard to say how many “uninvolved” players were actually there in the crucial round and truly helped.
It probably only succeeded because YouTuber Muselk is so big. In the end, they praise the “power of the Twitch chat.”
Now the video has over 4 million views. It seems to have been worth it.
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