- Whoa! - What the hell?
NO WAY!!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're gonna be showing you a compilation
of videos all coming from the video game Fortnite.
- Oh my god! My 14-year-old's most obsessive pastime.
- (FBE) These videos are what some people call
Fortnite perfect timing. - Oh, okay. Okay, okay.
I've seen a few of those on Twitter sometimes,
no-scope headshots and stuff.
- Oh, there's no way!
- Ah, no, don't shoot the guy in the parachute.
- Ohh! - That's pretty good.
He got him. - Bye! I've done that.
Oh, it's the best feeling in the world!
- How? How-- how do they frickin' do that?
- It's not my flava. It's not my thing.
The cartoon had a nice butt. That's all I got.
- It must be really hard to do, 'cause to me, it seemed so normal.
Like, yeah, you shot him. Good job.
- (softly) Oh, okay.
Whoa! - (players laughing)
- Okay, that was pretty good.
I don't know a lot about Fortnite, but I know that was pretty good.
- Okay, these are actually really good and they're gonna make me feel
really bad about my own-- (gun fires)
That's how they won?
- I love that people get so excited about it.
It's all pretend. I'm just letting you know.
- He would've died from fall damage if he didn't hit that shot.
- You know, this is perfect timing for that character.
Not perfect timing for the other one.
- Perfect-ass timing, becau-- I mean, dude, who?
Who shoots while they're falling?
- Here we go. (gun firing)
- 2v1. This is fair.
No! NO!
- I'd be the guy getting killed right now.
Ooh!
- Yeah, thinking, "Oh, yeah, he's not gonna get me."
Yeah, that's-- yeah. That would be me.
That was me.
My gamer tag was right there. I'm sure it was.
- I don't know how anybody's doing this.
You have to lead it, so that they they kind of
jump into it. And it's so much harder!
- I love that British guy. - Ooh. Whoa. What?
Is he building a bridge for himself to run on?
- (player) Wait, wait, wait. Okay, there.
- (player on screen) Y'all quite ready?
- (player) Oh, no. Don't-- - (gasps) Oh!
OH MY GOD! Okay, they did it!
- Whoa! - What the hell?
NO WAY!
- Whoa!
Yo, I love this.
- (claps) One more! One more! Come on!
Let's go! (laughs)
And he dies! - (player) 100% worth it.
- ("British" accent) 100% worth it.
- His remark right there, just perfect.
- I spent a whole stream one time trying to rocket ride,
and I ended up just blowing myself up the entire time. It's been awful.
- These kills just keep getting crazier and crazier.
- (player) Oh, I see someone poking his head out...
- Where is he even seeing?
- (player) They're not looking over here, though.
Watch me get this headshot now.
(gun fires)
- Bastard. - (player) Watch me get
this headshot now. - Where is the person?
I couldn't even see that person! - Ah, that's kinda luck.
That's not so much perfect timing. - There is definitely luck involved,
but he was watching the guy. Like, if he just shot in the sky,
and the guy went bye, and then it hit it,
I think that's more luck than anything.
It's perfect timing, dude.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- I like the music going on.
- Oh my god. No way! - No! Noo! (chuckles)
No!
- Oh, is he gonna get him? Clock 'em.
Ooh! - Whoa.
That seemed quite difficult.
- That's so much harder than the parachute,
'cause the rocket goes so much faster!
- That person that was on it did not expect that [bleep].
Damn, I wanna play now. - I'm sure...
if somebody taught me how to play it, I might have fun.
But I'm more like Mrs. Pac-Man.
- Is this guy gonna kill the other?
- What are they doing? What?!
Did they just dance? Yeah, they're dabbing.
What is going on here? (chuckles)
- Pfffft!
(squeaks)
Whaat?!
- (chuckles) This is the goofiest part of Fortnite, I gotta say.
- Me and my buddy do this all the time.
- You're just waiting-- you're on the microphone going,
"All right. Three, two, one...
orange justice!"
- With the lagging that I get at home,
I'm surprised. I'm stunned that these people
get that type of uniformity. - Is this part of the game?
"Yeah, let's have a dance party... and then shoot people."
- They don't get penalized for celebrating like they do
in football?
- (laughs) I mean, it's pretty good choreography.
- That was the least worthy of all these videos.
- I heard that you're seeing kids do this kind of crap,
like on the middle school soccer field at PE
when they score. Like, all the kids are doing
the Fortnite dance moves at the end to be like, "Yeah, I scored on you."
It's kinda cute.
- (player) I saw people right at the beginning,
but I dare not, like...
- Oh, they did it-- - (player) No way!
- They did it right at the same time. (laughs)
- That's amazing. It's like they had a psychic link.
- I think it's pretty crazy for two players to think
of the same thing at the same time.
- Fortnite as a realm just has to be the luckiest place
or something like that, 'cause all of these have just
been really good timed coincidences. - If you're able to get an epic kill
without even looking at somebody or having them on your radar,
that's pretty tight. I don't understand what's so cool
about spray painting something on the same time
or dancing at the same time together.
(gun fires) ♪ (quirky dance music) ♪
- That's-- ooh.
- Whoa!
- Whooaa.
- OH-HO-HO-HO!
- (players speak in foreign language)
- See, that's tight. - Yeah, I meant to do that.
I meant to dance in a way to dodge a bullet.
- That was definitely perfect timing. That saved his life.
- That's perfect timing. If you just dance and then that's how
you avoid death, you know, that's always a good thing.
(loud slam) (ding)
(gun fires) - (player) NO...
- What the [bleep] did he hit?!
(gun fires) - (player) NO! What?!
- With a pistol? With a gray pistol? (chuckles)
- That's literally taking a shot in the dark.
- That's crazy.
- (player) NO! - Yeah, hawkinsonkaren8,
you were done!
- I couldn't even see that person! How could you tell?
- I don't even know what he's saying "No! What?" about.
What am I looking at? - I think that was either bad
for that person or good for that person.
I'm not sure what just happened. (chuckles)
(gun fires) - OH! Uh-oh, you dancin'.
- Ohh, it's like the video game version
of breakdancing battles.
- What are you... They've become friends.
(gun fires) (snorts)
(laughs)
- That's so many perfectly-timed things all at once.
- Okay. (gun fires)
Bam, bitch! [Bleep] outta here with that friend [bleep].
- I don't get it. - (chuckles) Oh, hello, hello.
Oh, goodbye! Termination.
- I'm sure there's some central, fabulous, awesome place
that people post all this crap and people sit around
and watch it. (sucks in breath)
It just seems like a waste of time. Don't they have homework?
- I used to play a game called of Age of Empires,
and I would watch videos of people playing
just because, yeah, it was amusing.
It was entertaining. I was into it. You know what I mean?
It's like watching a show.
- (FBE) So, Fortnite perfect timing compilations
are a sub-category of perfect timing videos,
which also includes things like perfectly timed photos.
- I love perfectly timed photos. - Like, some guy kicks a soccer ball,
and it's about to hit the guy's face.
- (FBE) Why do you think that people are so fascinated
with perfectly-timed content in general?
- I just think it's that moment where you're like, "Oh my god!
Oh my god! How did that happen?!
That was like magic. That was miraculous."
- Any time anything happens that you did not expect to see coming
is like a little happy, pleasant surprise.
- We all like those types of things. It's a quirk that we have
as a people. (laughs) It's just a quirk.
Get the timing right of a ping pong ball in a cup.
- It's an oddly satisfying sort of factor to have something happen
an exact time that you want it to
or something that you just don't expect to happen
and then it does happen.
Anyone likes that in real life, in games, whatever.
- (FBE) Finally, Fortnite Battle Royale was released in 2017
as a free-to-play game by developer Epic Games.
Since its release, the game has had over 125 million downloads.
- That's crazy. - (FBE) The game has also dominated
livestreams on Twitch, where people tune in to other people
to watch the game played live. In July, Fortnite Twitch streams
peaked on the platform with about 151 million hours
of streaming time watched belonging to Fortnite
in that month alone. - Jeez!
I've definitely contributed to that too,
because I didn't start playing Fortnite
until we started doing Fortnite Fridays on Twitch
and on livestreaming. - (FBE) Talking a little bit more
about Fortnite's popularity, do you think that this game
will fizzle out? Or do you think that the franchise
is here to stay? - I think it's gonna stay for a while,
but it will definitely fizzle out. Especially on Twitch,
there's kind of cycles and waves.
Now that there's a good Call of Duty game,
I see a lot of people going back to it.
- It'll probably last long enough, but something new will come
that will replace it.
- The video games that really leave an impact, I think,
on generations, those never really die.
In the future, when we're up to whatever video game thing,
they'll be like, "Yo, you remember Fortnite?"
Like, "Yo, Fortnite." - Unless they can just keep
changing it and evolving it and adding more and doing more,
I think the next Fortnite will come out and replace it.
- I don't see it going away. I really don't.
Especially since they keep coming up with skins
and different emotes and different challenges.
And they keep it interesting to the players that play it
all the time. It's not just the same old game,
you know, time and time again.
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