Yesterday, an iceberg in Fortnite gradually melted away. Suddenly, it received health points with update 7.20. They are now at 0. And the iceberg revealed what lies beneath: a strange hatch.
That was the hot topic yesterday: With the patch 7.20 in Fortnite, the giant iceberg in the southwest of the Fortnite map started to melt yesterday.
The iceberg was given a gigantic health display (5 billion HP) and it decreased slowly.
Players could hit the iceberg and damage was also displayed. But the iceberg consistently lost health points.
It was a kind of live event. Every second, the iceberg took damage, but it had 5 billion health points, so it took a while.
Are we damaging the iceberg or not?
These were the fans’ theories: It is not quite clear why the iceberg melted. There are two theories:
- Either the iceberg melted on its own – the players had no influence on it
- or it was a gigantic community event in Fortnite: Everyone who hit the iceberg worldwide caused damage, which was then summed up across all servers
Players called on reddit to hit the iceberg: Because the more people discovered the iceberg and caused damage to it, the faster it would melt and the event would continue.
Others said that was nonsense; it would melt on its own anyway.
Fortnite has so many players, that it is impossible to estimate how many people hit the iceberg at the same time or not. In any case, the iceberg has melted now, and much faster than expected.
What lay beneath the iceberg in Fortnite
This was under the iceberg: Players had wild speculations about what would be beneath the iceberg.
Ultimately, it was just a kind of hatch that belongs to a bunker, similar to the bunker in the Wailing Woods. How this will proceed is not known.
This is what it’s about: Some suspect that this could have been a test of what an “in-game countdown” might look like.
Others think it was a large “test” for the Unreal Engine. The idea behind the theory is that across numerous servers, people do something that then affects everyone else on all other servers: namely, breaking the iceberg with pickaxes.
In any case, there is a lot going on in Fortnite right now, even if the purpose is still unclear:
