- Fortnite's Simpsons event, Welcome, Our Alien Overlords, was 11 minutes long.
- The event featured multiple animated shorts where the Zero Point Shard was the key focus.
- A gameplay trailer for the new season was also shown during the event.
Fortnite has just aired its latest live event, Welcome Our Alien Overlords, in-game, and players joined in massive numbers to play. The event consisted of an 11-minute cinematic sequences with zero gameplay elements (quite disappointing) in an otherwise stacked humor that screamed The Simpsons through and through.
While it took players a while to get in when the event playlist went live (thanks to Matchmaking Errors), the event began after an in-game countdown of 1 minute 30 seconds as Kang and Kodos beamed up players in the pre-event lobby. Now if you missed anything of what I’m talking about here, we’ve got the full recap for you right here.
What Happened in Fortnite Simpsons Live Event Today?
Fortnite Simpsons live event began with Hope and Jonesy landing on the dimensional portal with Jonesy’s Rift Gun as they planned to open a new reality and lock the tentacled demon behind it. As Jonesy opened a portal and locked the demon, it re-opened that portal and walked right through it and slammed players with its tentacle.
Then a cutscene began where players found themselves in an animated realm with The Simpsons graphic style as Hope and Jonesy fought the demon. Kang and Kodos flew above the demon to fight alongside it to defeat humans. However, Hope and Jonesy got beamed up in their flying saucer and fought both the aliens.
Suddenly, Hope noticed the Zero Point Shard embedded in the demon’s chest and pulled it via the UFO’s tractor beam. As soon as she pulled a single shard, the demon threw them into a dimensional portal from where Hope, Jonesy, Kang, and Kodos accidentally landed on an island which was a mix of Fortnite’s looped island and Springfield.
Then, the official gameplay trailer for the new season played, showing the brand new island, weapons, Battle Pass skins, and all your favorite Simpsons characters running around. Once the trailer ended, an animated short played where Homer accidentally got in possession of the Zero Point shard and attached it to his television remote, which turned it into an item that could change reality or objects around him.
Homer, being the accidental dad he is, changed things around his house and Springfield to his liking, including pretzels that walk right into your mouth when you open it. However, Jonesy and Hope are also looking for that shard as Homer hides it in his possession. The rest of the story shown in the live event will be continued in animated shorts in-game each week as the season goes on.
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