The reason this all seemed so overwhelming is they frsmed this recap in chronological order. In reality, there was very little to piece together until Chapter 2. There was no story whatsoever during the first 2 Seasons of Chapter 1. Then in Season 3, the meteor crashes into Dusty Depot (one of the most popular POIs at the time). Season 4 gave us our first theme (superheroes) where a superhero movie was being filmed on the Island. We didn't know who the Seven or I.O. were, all we knew was that a mysterious person exited the meteor and flew a rocket, creating rifts. It gave us our first collab event featuring Thanos, because that's when Infinity War hit theaters. Season 5 the rifts made a cube that the community called "Kevin." Kevin melted into Loot Lake (another popular POI). Season 6 was the Halloween season where Kevin lifted the island above Loot Lake, snd we got zombies. The Island exploded and we got the Butterfly event. Season 7 was our Winter/Christmas season, which is when the glacier hit the Idland, and the Ice King gave us a blizzard... with zombies. It was slso when Creative Mode first started. Season 8 gave us the Volcano and Pirates. It was also the very first time we even see the Zero Point. And at this point, we the players knew absolutely nothing about it. It also had a collab event with Avengers Endgame. The scene of Thor and his friends playing Fortnite was a Season 8 gameplay clip. Season 9 had a futuristic theme, and it gave us the Monster vs Mech event. And Season X (10) was the end of Chapter 1. This was the very first time we hear about "The Seven" and "The Loop." TL;DR, Fortnite's story was fed to us with little breadcrumbs. Most of our big lore drops came from Batman and Marvel comics, and more narrative driven events during Chapters 2 and 3. Most of Chapter 1's story was random ev3nts with no context to piece most of it together. There were more theories thsn answers. This video used later lore drops to make sense of everything going on.

11:52 Chapter 1 (aka OG Fortnite) essentially set up the game and how it works. Originally there were no reboot vans, vehicles, rifts, or sprinting/mantling (the new movements were released with the zero build game mode) as well as some other stuff I’m sure, it was a very simple game back then. There was only solos and squads game modes with duos and trios coming later in the chapter. Friendly fire was also on for a bit but that was removed pretty quickly, especially considering there was no rebooting at the time. The map also changed a lot throughout the first chapter but kept the same base shape and structure. Then each new season brought a new map and heaps of new mechanics and items (e.g chapter 2 brought in swimming and fishing). I didn’t play very much after then but that’s the gist of it, I’m sure I’ve missed stuff so hopefully people can help out/add stuff in the replies.

Like how you start a match and storm closes and last player wins and next match starts and whole process repeates again, same storm closes again and so on. Thats called 'loop' in the story. Thats how the order keeps eveyone at bay under them and tried to use zero point orbs energy for themselves. To free this loop and zero point, the seven tries everytime, and each time something messes up and gives us (real players) new season . Top 5 gaming knows this story by piecing everything (zero point comics, quests, quest voice notes, talking to NPC's ,etc)

if you want to keep up with chapter 5 lore, the channel Rezztro is the perfect way to go, he has done a recap of every season in chapter 5 at this point, they are really fun to hear and more slow paced to avoid confusion His videos in order are Fortnite CHAPTER 5 Storyline EXPLAINED & The Return Of MIDAS! Fortnite Who Is ODYSSEY & What Is Inside PANDORA'S BOX?! Fortnite CHAPTER 5 SEASON 2 Storyline EXPLAINED & The Oracle’s SECRET Prophecy! Fortnite CHAPTER 5 SEASON 3 Storyline EXPLAINED & Who Is THE WANDERER?! With that you'd basically get the full picture of the lore up to the most recent update. It'd be really cool if you delved into the story of chapter 5.

“Oh it’s dancing.” Had me laughing 8:22

36:34 There were tanks in the game. This was a pretty fun season.

The banana is called pealy and it was a character Donald mustard (the creator of Fortnite) came up with to be in the game to tease his brother who doesn't like bananas.

T5G: this guy can destroy worlds and eats planets Drew: oh

You should react to all the live events next.

18:50 Troy Baker is the voice of John Jones (Agent Jonesy). Very well known voice actor. He voices anime and video game character. One of his best roles is Joel Miller from The Last of Us video games. 31:40 Sorry for this man but Batman is NOT a super hero. He is just a hero. Superheroes have powers, batman doesn't. He's just the richest and smartest guy around.

drew oh my god, i watched fortnite lore videos when i was high and i was INVESTED. i thought this franchise and the people who created such universe were the most incredible thing ever. absolutely beautiful. Would not have been able to get through it otherwise. Not even with ADHD meds.

there were comics... news releases... live events every other season. they used to go hard with the lore, storyline and live events. Fortnite is like a living comic book. ppl always bitch when new skins look like old ones but all the loopers/players/characters are the same ppl from a bunch of realities.

I commend you for doing this after starting so late, it's a lot to take in! Playing the game for years, the storyline was more organically understood

Loved the reaction!! The Fortnite storyline is so underrated, I hope you can bring more reactions to it ❤

Fortnite had quests in-game that would have small bits of story tied to them leading up to ingame events, which were major story points As for the beginning of the game there weren't no reboot vans and there were only solo, duo and squads

Hey, you should also watch all of Fortnite's live events and battle pass and story trailers. :)

For the people who've been playing since Chapter 1 season 1 it's indeed easier to follow this story line as we played through all these POI's and different maps (a chapter is a map, basically) Like Gotham city used to be a POI, same goes for Spiderman's city. As for the Marvel ones in the beginning of the video like Thor and Tony Stark, they used to be Battle Pass skins. Fun fact: between Chapter 1 en Chapter 2, when everything got sucked in to the black hole thingy. You couldn't play Fortnite for a couple of days, when you logged in all you saw was the black hole. Aye one last piece of information: most information is indeed acquired through playing the game: seeing POIs change, witnessing the live events. Bosses like Sloan, Cube queen, etc, were there for an entire season; like Zeus and Hades for example. But yeah, it's hella chaotic and unpredictable, which we all like. EXCEPT FOR THE CAR META, lmao sorry had to say it

4:14 Top5Gaming is getting all of these information from the in game storyline quests, the trailers, the map changes, comic books... Every details Fortnite put is building up this complex storyline, its never "finished" The story is in constant progression every 2 weeks with new storyline quests, every new season launch move the story forward into its next big step (a new antagonist, a big reveal, a new hero, returning characters...)

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!

YOOO you should react to all live events (great video btw)

4:11 they find out about the story through challenges / quests that get released and they tell the story Epic also released Marvel and DC comics that explain the early stages of the zero point and the whole loop so if your more interested you can still buy the comics online and maybe in some book stores

That chrome bit where it says work in progress it was not in the real event. It was found in the files, but was supposed to be in the vent.

Omg finnally! I and many others have been asking for Drew to make this video. I really want to see his reaction to all the lore, since he started in chapter 5 and there isnt that much storyline rn, but the actual fortnite story is really interesting. I am so happy that he made it and I cant wait to watch it when I come home. 😁

It's all built up from events, in-game dialog, comics, trailers, interviews and assumptions over the years. Some of it is (still) just guesswork that could turn out to be wrong. An example geno who was on the island in the castle was defeated and we know that from a blog post that announced 2 skins for fortnite crew.

Next video you should watch all the live events. It’s better than just listening to a dude speak insanely fast

There were no reboot vans at the start, so if you were downed in a squat and your teammates couldn't revive you, it was just gg and then you just had to wait for your team to either win or lose that game. I don't think they came until chapter 2. There were solos, duos and squats in chapter one but no trios, that didn't come until much later. Chapters were only added in chapter two so you could tell the difference when people mentioned seasons so if you just said season one it was hard to know if it was season one on the old map or the new one. Epic chose to make chapters so that you would get the feeling that you had now started a new fresh game.

12:10 no, epic took reboot vans feature from apex legends lol tbh lots of popular fortnite features came from apex legends... edit: i forgot about the sharks LMAO I miss that season, was so fun!

Literally before the game, there was no storyline, so the storyline have been built up as the game got older so the storyline is a living story we living through the story, and we are the second protagonist It’s not already written we are writing the story in real time as we play progressing with every update and season And chapter 😅😅😅 so better said we are writing the storyline ourselves through our experience 😅😅😅 and Fortnite is making it canon. But actually, Fortnite is controlling everything.😓 without Fortnite that would be no storyline

33:10 yes. They made an Animation of jonesy holding a banana entering a rift and exiting as peely

33:13 Yes there was an animation on fortnites yt explaining it so basically a jonesy snapshot was eating a banana and he entered a rift and it changed him in to a human banana thing

The lore started very slow at first. We had to figure most of this out from the updates/small changes around the map. At some point, the characters realized they were in a never ending loop and began working on escaping somehow. The loop is the center of the omniverse (all multiverses) and that is how you explain every IP known to man becoming a part of the loop.

The story of fortnite is made trough live events and pepole had to figure it out the story like the whole story. There were also cutscenes trailers and comic books with Batman and Marvel wich were a collab with fortnite and DC or Marvel but also a way to tell the story and to give the community more information about the story. Everything top5gaming is saying in that video is true.

Congratulations on finishing the introduction! This was only a fraction of the storyline. 😅

There were tanks in the game and there was also the battlebus that you can drive in, in this chapter and season, although without emp but otherwise the same. And there were also metal airships. However, it was unfortunate timing that chapter 3 came out at the same time as when Russia invaded Ukraine, so in that connection Epic collected money to support Ukraine, so all they earned from the item shop was used there.

“WHY” the very last thing said in the video. I can agree.

Hey man idk how but i was gifted a membership to your channel! Nice to see this!

12:15 The game was originally a whole different game with zombies and you had to protect things with builds and you could craft weapons, etc. But the game was failing and epic games saw a new genre and in a few months made the new fortnite battle royale. I am pretty sure that there was no reboot cards.

These are random beings who want to have power over the entire metaverse and they can get that by getting hold of the zero point, as it has so much energy that if you first get hold of it and control it, you can exterminate all your enemies, as easy as snapping your fingers, almost just like Thanos. The problem is that the zeropoint is just like the earth's core, if it disappears, then the earth dies. So if the zeropoint disappears from the Fortnite island, then the island and everyone on it dies and Fortnite with it, therefore the zeropoint must be defended at all costs, so that we can continue to kill each other forever.

Drew you definitely need to watch all the live events. Also Sypher has a video about the history of Fortnite that is only about 20 mins long. It covers Fortnite becoming the most popular game in the world plus weapons, battle passes etc from past seasons. Luv the video btw!! Your reactions to things are priceless!! 😄

there are comic books and story quests and live events in game

big ups to this man to giving me a free membership, didn’t have to but you did 🙏

Me and Drew had the exact same reaction 😂

The twists in the story usually represent a new season, for example, when galactus was thrown in the story that was the start of a marvel season

Nice video man! ❤️

Basically Drew understands less now than at the beginning of the video!!

They got the information because NPCs give you information and secret voice notes.

In the end all you need to know is, good guys fight bad guys over a center of the multiverse

I’ve been looking forward to this.

Belive it or not but peely is actuslly a jonesy snapshot. While esting a banana Jonesy walked through a rift and merged with it

33:16 peely is an snapshot of jonesy that hot fused with a banana after touching a rift

Big fan love watchin your content

I forget how much Drew has missed! He never experienced the black hole!!! Lol!

18:57 you ever played CoD Advanced Warfare? Ever seen the Avengers Assemble cartoon series? (that voice was Mitchell from Advanced Warfare, and Hawkeye from Avengers cartoon.)

24:05 That reaction couldn’t be more perfect!! 😂

10:15 we are currently in chapter 5 season 3 Which represents a total of 28 seasons

As someone who has been playing since Chapter 1 Season 4, it all makes sense now.

You should react to every fortnite trailer or crossover trailer those are pretty sick 👀🔥

if you feel upto it scyan is a great storyline channel to watch if you want some updates on chapter 5 too!

you should react to all the live events next

i would have to get into a call with you to explain this overly complicated game’s history

Thanks for this refresher! I'll need another in a couple months 😂 also, don't know if you know but most of this is game play too we all do so you'll be more immersed..buuuut there's not much of stories since Mustard left.

Top 5 gaming gets his information from Fortnite comics oive events and quest

17:51 “well that guys large”

ohhhhh, there were TANKS alright. and most people that didn't know how to handle them (me excluded), thought they were a pain... in.... the... ASS! 🤣

19:00 yes actually John jones is voiced by Troy baker

You should do all of the trailers next!

Awesome video

The imagine order will never die

It would be interesting for you, if you would react to all Fortnite cinematic trailers too (ch1-ch5)

Should check out the rest of the story till now as well

KEVIN THE CUBE!!! 😅 The Monster vs. Mech event was the best!!!

I wish there was a comprehensive video about the lore, t5g’s is nice and all, but it’s built for people who know the lore, not for people who don’t know lore

Peely was created when a jonsey was eating a banana and he touched a rift so he got turned into peely there’s a trailer just look it up 😊😊

So basically chapter 5 is the changed timeline after a new big bang

the live event for that Chrome stuff was rushed. ya gotta ask some hardcore lore fans about it. all we ended up with was a "chore mission" to gather up pieces of the zero point to help repair the island. that was dogshit.

I feel for you man... I can relate😔 37:32

49:20 many lore explainers get this wrong. Its not Geno and has "nothing" to do with him.

31:00 I started in chapter two season two and this made me laugh aswell. So random? Just Gotham city outa nowhere? Basically this does not make sense if you only focus on the game and not their other things like comic books and what not

You need to react to all the cinematic trailers for each season and the live events! Easier to follow!

u should react to the FNCS Grand finals later in season its a 3 hour long and is live stramed by fortnite at their youtube channel

Fortnite chapter 1 had 10 seasons, chapter 2 had 8 seasons, chapter 3 4 seasons, chapter 4 4 seasons, chapter 5 4, seasons

The story unfolded as we played. We found out info from challenges and events. There are also comic books you can read.😄

The comic’s were crazy

You should react to all fortnite live events. That would be greater

10k subs I've been subscribed since 8000😊

You should do a zero build tournaments

bro watch all the cinematic trailers of fortnite and all Collab trailers please you will love it

Love it

W video 😂❤

This info is from lil things on the map story quests and live events

The comic book pages were from a special comic that was canon, but it's rare for fortnite to distill story info that way. Usually, and this goes for the current season as well, story is dispersed through story quests that get released semi frequently as the season progresses.

You should now react to all the live events in order. ❤ I started playing Ch1 Season 4 and following the story line has been so much fun for me. I wish we had live events like they used to be. 😢 Also reboot vans started April 2019, Chapter 4 Season 4. I just remembered that we used to also get loading screens with clues on where to find Battle Stars on the map. I would love to get that back.

Nice video

When it start was even is it supposed to be Battle Royale it was a zombie survival the game started to die so they made battle royal rip of of pubs and it got popular

Top5gaming is awesome inwatch his video 2 see fornite stuff

I think the WiP is for a future event.

The story went down the drain after Chapter 3, the guy in charge of the whole thing wasn't supervising it anymore after that. Chapter 4 Season 1 looked promising but they did nothing with it, so nowadays there is no big plot basically

Downers suits you better than uppers Drew! ;D Thanks for using ALL of your attention span on this video.

All of this comes from tons of bits and peices plus live events and comics to explains in better detail

Yes some skins they just brpught but some are connected to the storyline