Before we go into Chapter 7, it’s worth clarifying one thing.
Fortnite Chapters ONE through SIX, are all the SAME story. There’s not a new or old story, it’s all the same one. All these characters are in the same story. The writers have always remained the same from the beginning to now.
The only thing that changed was the director in charge. And fun fact, Steve Danuser (the new Narrative Director at Epic) also apparently really loves transmedia storytelling which Donald Mustard used to tell Fortnite’s storyline when he was around. For those of you who don’t know what that is, transmedia storytelling is utilizing movies, video games, comics, websites, music, etc, to tell a story. This type of storytelling is used to help immerse the audience (us) into the story even more.
Anyways, I’ve believed for a while now that we’ve just taken a detour from the Zero Point & Reality Zero while things were being figured out internally at Epic. According to Donald, the Island of Reality Zero was the main character so to prevent messing it up any further the writers decided to write it out for the time being, detour from it and go to another reality which was Chapter 5. Where we met a very prominent protagonist now in Fortnite’s story, Hope!
We’re seemingly getting back on track with the story as former characters are returning, the Zero Point is becoming the focus of the story again, The Seven are being said to return, the upcoming live event is said to be huge, we’re being told more care will be put into the story starting in Chapter 7, etc.
No characters from Fortnite are gone forever they were only written out, the big ones mainly, from CH3-4 to prevent their stories from being messed up. But this also applies to the ones in CH5 & 6 who we’ve seen come and go. We’ll see them again someday.
Aside from clarifying that, I also wanted to make this post because I think the discourse about the “old story” and the “new story” is silly. Each chapter had different things going on at the time, certain resources were available and some weren’t. There’s no reason we should be blindly hating on every chapter’s story because even if some were flawed or weaker than the previous one, some really great things came out of each chapter. It’s okay to dislike chapters of course but we should be promoting good feedback & critiques, not blind hate on the story that doesn’t help the story or our community at all.
With that being said, I’m extremely excited for the upcoming CH6 Finale and Chapter 7. I have such high hopes for them both. Only 25 more days to go!!! 🔥