The Rock is Losing This Season's Player-Decided Fortnite Storyline, Despite a Weekend Event Designed to Help Him Catch Up

The Rock is presently losing Fortnite's caller play ballot that asks players to prime a broadside betwixt his in-game quality and a wintry villain.

It's a concern that caught the eyes of Fortnite fans this play aft the find of a hidden in-game multiplier that appeared to beryllium weighted towards The Rock's chances — adjacent though helium was inactive bringing up the rear.

The Rock's long-awaited instrumentality to Fortnite arsenic the dependable and likeness of fan-favorite in-game quality The Foundation had been heralded by assorted trailers and teases, and successful Fortnite lore helium remains 1 of its astir fashionable characters. So it's truthful been a astonishment to spot him presently lagging down his caller rival, The Ice King.

When archetypal logging into the caller play of Fortnite, players are fixed the enactment to backmost either The Foundation oregon The Ice King, with their in-game points past added to a planetary full for the squad skipper of their choosing. It's presently unclear however the victor of this eventual showdown volition beryllium reflected successful Fortnite's storyline, though each players volition get a unsocial variant of either The Foundation oregon Ice King's tegument depending connected who comes retired connected top.

Throughout the season, points accumulated by players backing The Foundation and The Ice King filter into 2 abstracted advancement tracks, and find erstwhile caller weaponry and different gameplay items themed astir each quality are added to the conflict royale's loot pool.

And, arsenic noted, The Ice King present has an aboriginal pb — contempt that hidden modifier that fans spotted. Fortnite developer Epic Games subsequently acknowledged the multiplier (which gave The Rock's quality a 1.226% points bonus) had been progressive and said it had "reverted" the worth backmost to "default."

Since then, though, the developer has held "Seven Sunday" — an in-game lawsuit wherever the bonus was reapplied — to much officially springiness The Foundation a accidental astatine a catchup. To support things fair, this week volition besides big "Frosty Friday" — a akin lawsuit for The Ice King.

Fortnite fans person been intimately tracking the spread betwixt the 2 characters. On Sunday morning, Ice King was astatine 18% completion portion The Foundation lagged down astatine 14.17%, according to trusted dataminer FireMonkey. Over the people of yesterday, during the now-officially boosted Seven Sunday, The Foundation narrowed that spread from 3.83% down to conscionable 1.15% — but inactive couldn't overtake The Ice King. Fans present expect The Ice King to propulsion distant further done the week, earlier his ain boost this Friday.

Of course, this is conscionable each in-game fun, and the bulk of fans are treating it arsenic such. If The Rock does extremity up losing, it volition not beryllium the extremity of the satellite — though galore fans person highlighted his existent losing streak arsenic unusual, particularly successful airy of the long-stranding rumors that The Rock demands a "no-lose" clause for combat scenes successful his movie contracts (something the histrion has ne'er confirmed oregon denied himself.)

After years of Fortnite communicative feeling similar an afterthought, it is precise chill to person specified a salient in-game rivalry (and the instrumentality of assorted fashionable characters) placed successful the foreground. Social media is afloat of service recruitment-style posters from fans of each quality calling their chap players into battle, and encouraging enactment for their chosen team. And adjacent successful Fortnite lore (*pushes glasses up nose*) The Ice King has antecedently been shown arsenic thing of an antihero, with his ain motives, alternatively than an existent villain. Will The Rock really beryllium seen to suffer a battle? His destiny is successful your hands.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social