In Fortnite, the comet in the sky is driving people crazy, and controllers are vibrating randomly. “There must be a connection!” clever researchers shout. They predict the end of Fortnite as we know it on April 18.
In the sky of Fortnite, a comet has appeared with the last patch, which seems to be getting bigger and bigger. There are telescopes on the Battle Royale map to highlight the spectacle.
Something is going on there in the bushes or in the sky.
Is the comet crashing into Fortnite, or not?
Players have developed various theories to understand the unimaginable.
- Some think: The comet will hit and destroy the Tilted Towers – the hotspot in Fortnite Battle Royale which is anyway stupid and needs to go.
- Or the comet will hit and bring the “Shell” aliens from the PvE – “Save the World” will thus be free.
- Or something else will happen that might have to do with the space theme in the Battle Pass – or with dinosaurs. Anything could happen!
Meanwhile, we know: It was definitely not just an April Fool’s joke. Because on April 1, only the impulse grenades were modified and allowed players to fly through the air further than usual.
Now new clues have emerged! Or at least a theory so wild that it drove parts of the Fortnite community crazy over Easter.
Vibrating controllers are a coded distress signal from Tilted Towers
Since patch 3.4, players repeatedly report: “My controller vibrates so weirdly when I play Fortnite. I can’t explain it at all.“
On Reddit, a particularly clever researcher has now examined the vibrations. He says: “The controller vibrates in two different ways. One is a light vibration and the other is a bit harder vibration. So short and long.” This can be translated into Morse code.
Furthermore, there are four different vibration sequences that occur in different situations.
- One occurs only during the day
- The second pattern occurs only at night
- The third pattern occurs when you are in the storm
- And the fourth pattern occurs only when you are gliding
If you take four patterns consisting of sequences of “Short” and “Long” and translate them using the Morse alphabet (and somehow combine them), you get: “SOS D5 418.”
- SOS is the distress signal for “Save our souls”.
- D5 is the location of Tilted Towers, if you lay a coordinate system over the map.
- And 4/18 is April 18.
The vibration of the controllers is therefore a coded distress signal from Tilted Towers: Save us before April 18!
However, this theory has already been adjusted – originally, 4/18 was April 1, 2018 – now that nothing came of it, they are making it April 18.
You can read the complete theory with all Morse codes here.
By the way, Epic has a straightforward explanation for the vibrating controllers: It’s a bug that will be fixed soon. In the meantime, players should just turn off the vibrations.
The people who firmly believe that a comet will hit Tilted Towers dismiss this as nonsense.
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