The Fortnite “Unvaulting event” has been leaked and it’ll be happening very soon. This event will seemingly allow players to vote on a vaulted item from a past season to bring back, either temporarily or permanently. The Unvaulting event was leaked via well-known Fortnite data miner ShiinaBR. A line of code inside the game is called "Unvaulting countdown" and is counting down until May 4, according to the leak. The countdown is tagged as an event and began on May 1. It'll end this Saturday at 2pm CT. The "Unvaulting event" will take place on Saturday at 3pm ET / 12pm PDT! A new event called "UnvaultingCountdown" started yesterday when the rune appeared on the volcano and the event ends on Saturday at 3pm ET. The event will most likely occur when the countdown event ends. pic.twitter.com/wihm5OPlv1 — ShiinaBR - Fortnite Leaks (@ShiinaBR) May 2, 2019 At that time, all players inside the game will likely be transported to see the Fortnite vault for the very first time. Another well-known leaker Lucas7yoshi claims that a countdown will actually show up on the island soon for this event. The countdown will look holographic, similar to the one featured in the Food Fight LTM. The Unvaulting event will likely have players vote on a vaulted item to return to the game. There are six monitors in Loot Lake that have been lighting up one at a time, showing six different vaulted items. These include the Stormwing plane, Grappler, Bouncer, and more. These are likely the six choices players will be voting on. That's far from the only hint, too. There's a strange hatch at Loot Lake with five locks on it. Each lock opens when a rune appears on the map and players activate it through working together. All five runes have appeared on the map, but the fifth is the only one left to be activated.<doc-sep>Looks like the Drum Gun is back in Fortnite. Oh, and Tilted Towers is gone. Over the past few days, Fortnite players worked decipher mysterious runes which appeared at Loot Lake around the metal structure at its center. There were strange monitors in surrounding buildings showing images of vaulted weapons, which led folks to believe something was coming back. Eventually, the puzzle was solved, and all players had to do was wait until today, May 4, for the giant door in the center of Loot Lake to open. Like the monitors which surrounded the area, vaulted Fortnite weapons appeared and each were frozen in ice. Items such as the Drum Gun, Tactical SMG and four other items were inside – all frozen in blocks. Well, the Drum Gun is back, folks. Players were able to vote on various weapons vaulted throughout the years – and that was the once chosen by the community. All of the items in ice were the choices, and it seems only the Drum Gun was added – no matter which block you broke. Watch on YouTube The Drum Gun, which is basically a Tommy Gun, was added to the game in summer 2018 as part of Season 5. Apparently, it was a favorite of the community at large, so it’s making a return for Season 9. During the Unvaulted Event, the Volcano which has been spewing lava, finally went full Vesuvius, throwing boulders into the air. Titled Towers was destroyed in the process; Retail Row’s parking lot is in shambles; and Polar Peak now has a crack in it. Other areas of the map were hit by flying boulders, but as of press time, we’re not sure of everything that was demolished. Fortnite seasons tend to end with a bang, but many players were unable to participate in or watch today’s Unvaulted Event. Going by various comments made on social forums, many were stuck in the lobby. Rather unfulfilling way to end Season 8. If you missed it, give the video above from Fanbyte a watch.<doc-sep>You’ve got the power, Fortnite players. If leaks are correct, soon you’ll all be able to vote for one of six items you want to be unvaulted for season nine. The Loot Lake hatch, which is believed to be the door to Fortnite’s item vault, will open soon. That’s when players might be able to choose one of the six items shown in Loot Lake’s monitor to come back to the game: Bouncer, Drum Gun, Infinity Blade, Grappler, Tactical SMG, or X-4 Stormwing Planes. We’re Fortnite players too, and we remember the times when all of these items were available in standard game modes. We were watching everything when the Infinity Blade defined Fortnite’s tournament Winter Royale tournament and gave thousands of dollars to a few competitive players. We also remember when the community begged Epic Games to vault X-4 Stormwing Planes in season seven, when players were tired of flying during the mid-game to stall and survive until the late game. Related: Fortnite’s Unvaulting event leaked for May 4 Now that all of these memories are coming back, we have a pretty good idea of what we want to see again in standard modes and what we hope has been deleted from the game for good. Bring back the Bouncer The Bouncer trap is the best item Fortnite players can choose to come back to the game. It allowed players to place it on a tile, generally a wall, and bounce on it to be tossed horizontally without taking fall damage upon landing. Players had very little control of how far it would throw them, but it was great in helping them avoid fall damage and save materials when on top of a mountain. Image via Epic Games Bouncers could bring back the nearly-perfect balance between risk and reward, especially in the late game. While they deny enemies the powerful play of making an opponent fall, they also throw the player so far that they could end up falling into the storm and too far from the safe zone. They could also fall right in front of an opponent, who would be able to shoot them right away. Bouncers are the perfect mobility item for the current state of competitive Fortnite and an amazing tool to make matches more enjoyable for casual players. All other items could stay where they are. The seasons with Infinity Blade and X-4 Stormwings were traumatizing, and we don’t want to go through that again. Grapplers aren’t needed when you have The Baller, and the Drum Gun and Tactical SMG have already been replaced by other weapons, like high-rarity submachine guns. Regardless of whatever the voting system looks like, take our opinions into consideration and support Team Bouncer.<doc-sep>
The power of unvaulting Fortnite: Battle Royale items seems to be getting closer each time data miners leak new information. Programming strings “The Unvaulting” and “The choice is yours!” have been spotted by data miners at Skin-Tracker after today’s v8.51 game update. Both phrases seem to reference previously-leaked information, which ties the Loot Lake hatch and runes to the ability that players might have to bring back certain vaulted items to standard game modes by the end of season eight. These items are the same that can be spotted on the monitors in Loot Lake: Drum Gun, Bouncer trap, Tactical SMG, Infinity Sword, X-4 Stormwing Planes, and the Grappler. Here are all added and removed Strings from today's update. #Fortnite pic.twitter.com/UKTpaYJpZf — Skin-Tracker (@SkinTrackerCom) May 2, 2019 A voting system, which data miners have also found mentioned in strings of previous leaks, could be the feature that allows players to unvault some of these items. The theory that fans and data miners are working with is that the Loot Lake metal hatch is the door to Fortnite’s vault. Once players plug all six runes into it, the hatch will open and reveal all six vaulted items, allowing players to choose which of them they want to return. A video leak shows that the voting system might have something to do with glass pillars and a huge blue sphere of energy where players will find these items. “The choice is yours!” could be part of an in-game message that will invite players to vote during “The Unvaulting.” Related: Boston Red Sox have banned Fortnite from their clubhouse This leak confirms nothing, though. These are only text strings that are now in Fortnite’s game files, and they could mean something else. But when they’re put together with new visual models and audio leaks published today, they get our hopes up for a big event that’ll end season eight with a lot of player interaction and agency. We'll understand how everything is tied together when season eight ends on May 8, which is also when season nine starts.