Fortnite gamers are positively right here for the brand new throwback season. For the reason that launch of “” on the finish of final week, public participant counts have reached new all-time highs, in keeping with trackers like — peaking on Saturday with over 6.1 million concurrent gamers. With Chapter 4 Season 5, or “Fortnite OG,” Fortnite is dipping again into its Chapter 1 glory days to convey gamers again to the unique 2018 island map and reintroduce gear and different parts from its previous.
The season began with an replace designed round Chapter 1 Season 5, and subsequent updates will pull from different phases of the sport’s historical past. However, it’s solely anticipated to run for a couple of month, and gamers aren’t losing any time getting in on the battle royale motion. The variety of concurrent gamers has been rising all weekend, regularly breaking the earlier file highs. Inside hours of the replace’s launch, the participant depend had spiked to over 3.9 million. Already at the moment, there have been 5.5 million gamers on Fortnite as of 11AM.
The variety of concurrent performs for a single day almost doubled on Friday, after the replace was introduced, from these seen earlier within the week, to hit almost 1.5 million. Saturday logged over 1.8 million concurrent performs. It’s been years since Fortnite has seen numbers like this, however there’s no telling whether or not it’ll be capable of stick with it.
This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/fornite-keeps-breaking-player-count-records-since-releasing-its-nostalgic-og-season-160445720.html?src=rss
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