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Diplo headlined the first concert on Fortnite’s new Party Royale islandThe party won’t stop
The party won’t stop
In-game concerts of course don’t have the physical presence of a live show if that’s what you’re truly missing this summer, but they have all seemed to play to the strengths of Fortnite’s game space. Instead of giant speakers that you can feel thumping in your chest, the Diplo concert featured Fortnite’s jump pads for folks to play around on, a bunch of laser lights, and some big hologram dancers around the various viewing platforms. On a big stadium-like virtual screen overhead, Diplo himself does his DJ thing live with some backup dancers. Are they at least two meters apart? I can’t tell.
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Alice0 says that the recentTravis Scott concertwas quite the event, during which “giant holographic Travis descend from the skies to serenade players with an extravegant performance including fire raining from the skies, the world flooding, rollercoaster tracks growing across the skies, everything going topsy-turvy.” It sounds like more of a production than the Diplo concert was, which was maybe more in line with theMarshmellow eventfrom last year.
We can probably expect Epic to continue with more live event experiments now that they’ve got the dedicated Party Royale island branched off from the main battle arena. It may be just one big bus full of media companies cross-promoting their #brands as with theStar Wars: Rise Of Skywalker,Borderlands 3, andAvengers: Endgamestuff they’ve hosted in the past but, hey, some of them have been pretty neat on their own merit.
On that note, it’s alsoStar Wars Day, so Epic havebrought lightsabers backto the battle royale mode for a limited time.
