Fortnite Chapter 2 is coming to a close and Epic has some big plans for the upcoming Chapter 3 as well as the Fortnite Season 8 live event. Epic Games have already decided to ditch seasons nine and X, ushering us into a new chapter, which might change the game as we know it. Now, the official countdown timer is live in-game and Epic, after several leaks, has officially announced the Fortnite Season 8 live event, which could easily be one of the biggest players have seen. Here's everything you should know about the Fortnite Chapter 2 finale countdown, event time, and more.
Epic has taken legal action against persons that have signed non-disclosure agreements in regards to leaking information about upcoming game information. In May 2018, Epic Games filed a lawsuit against quality assurance tester Thomas Hannah after he leaked information regarding Season 4. Hannah, who had joined Epic in December 2017, breached the NDA by sharing details of the Season with Adam DiMarco. DiMarco later shared information in a Reddit post, spoiling the theme of the Season. Epic stated that Hannah "diminished the enjoyment of the people who play, or who watch others play, Fortnite by ruining the suspense that had been building in the Fortnite community in anticipation of upcoming season". Epic filed a second similar lawsuit in November 2019 against a tester out of Keywords Studio in Montreal over similar Chapter 2 leaks that were in breach of the terms of their non-disclosure agreement.
Since release, Epic Games has added more features, such as new weapon and items and makeshift vehicles such as shopping carts and golf carts. A "Battle Lab" mode was added in December 2019 for players to create their own custom battle royale games. Epic was denied a preliminary injunction on August 24, 2020, that would have forced Apple to keep the game on the App Store, thus leaving the game unable to update on iOS. Epic had also believed that Apple was terminating the ability for users with Epic account linked through Apple to log in using their Apple ID by September 11, 2020, but Apple confirmed they would not be disabling this feature. With the release of the mobile version, teachers, parents, and students have found that the game had become popular to younger players due to the free-to-play nature, its cartoonish art style, and its social nature. This carries over into educational institutions, where the game has been seen as a disruptive element within the classroom and affecting students' ability to complete homework assignments.
Epic has since added warnings on the game's loading screens to discourage students from playing it during classes. A separate class-action suit filed in California in February 2021 asserts that Epic knowingly "misleads and manipulates minors into handing over ever-increasing amounts of real money for virtual things" through its V-bucks system. This also introduced the use of the battle pass for players to obtain some of this new content by completing challenges and gaining experience. Supporting the shorter downtime, tipster @iFireMonkeytweeted on December 5, 2021, that players can expect to see Chapter 3 as soon as tomorrow, i.e. As the game is back online, Fortnite Chapter 3 Battle Pass will also be revealed, along with multiple new elements and skins in the game.
Ever since Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 8 ended, #FortniteFlippedhas been trending on Twitter, as the island was flipped upside down in the Season 8 finale. Stay tuned for more details on when will Fortnite Chapter 3 start and other gaming news. Fortnite fans shall note that Chapter 2, along with Season 8 Battle Pass ended on December 4, 2021.
From previous downtimes, it is clear that Fortnite will take some time to make necessary changes to its servers and prepare the game for the next chapter. At the end of Chapter 2, players witnessed the Cube Queen opening an extradimensional portal, allowing alien ships to enter the island. At the end of the season finale, the Fortnite island flipped and landed on water upside-down. Fortnite seems to have launched a new website, which carries the name Flip The Island and is expected to reveal more details shortly.
Beyond this, Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 will also introduce an array of useful features and additions to improve the overall gaming experience of the players. As always, the data miners have already given a sneak peek of the forthcoming season details, including its release date, battle pass rewards, cost and much more. The Battle Pass trailer for Fortnite Chapter 3 season 1 was leaked on Twitter on Saturday. While it doesn't go into detail about the changes, there are some noticeable changes, such as different environments on the island and a new slide mechanic.
During this period, Epic made a deal with Tencent, giving them about 40% of the company in exchange for their support for the games as a service approach as well as ready access to the Chinese video game market. Fortnite was confirmed to have a planned 2018 release in June 2017, with a paid early access period starting a month later; the game is planned otherwise as a free-to-play title supported by microtransactions. With release in early access, the game featured its primary gameplay mode, "Save the World", where players in teams up to four would work cooperatively to survive and complete objectives on randomly generated maps. Fortnite Battle Royale has created a larger loose narrative that is exhibited through changes in the game map, which generally correlated to the start and end of the in-game season. This tied into several new cosmetic skins related to superheroes and super-villains that were available that month. The primary goal is to be the last player or team alive by eliminating or avoiding other players.
When playing in solo modes, players are immediately eliminated when they exhaust their health. In squad modes, downed players can crawl around while losing health; they can be eliminated immediately by an opponent or revived by a squadmate to help them up. Over time, the game's safe zone , decreases in size, and players caught outside the zone will take damage. This directs the surviving players into tighter spaces, forcing player encounters. Supply drops will spawn in random locations during a match, providing random weapons and items. Like in the original Fortnite game, Fortnite Battle Royale is primarily played in a third-person perspective.
One thing we don't know about the finale event is whether players will be able to play Fortnite after it ends. Chapter 3 is certainly on the way, but it's possible that Fortnite goes through some downtime before the new season and chapter begin. When Fortnite Chapter 1 ended, the game went down for nearly a full day — leading to hundreds of thousands of viewers watching the game's offline screen both in-game and on streams. The Chapter 2 Finale event will begin on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. As with previous events, the playlist will become available 30 minutes before the event begins, which is when players should log in to make sure they don't miss it.
Also similar to past events, this will be a one-time-only event, meaning that if you miss it, there's no going back to see it again. This finale will also mark the end of the current season 8 battle pass. Leakers have shared some vital information about the upcoming Fortnite Chapter 2 live event and what players can expect during the finale. Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey, in his tweet, states that The Foundation will make a re-entry and have some role during the event. The leakers also mention that the Last Reality can kill us all during the event.
Individual platform releases saw initial surges in player counts. Within a day of becoming available, the Nintendo Switch version had been downloaded over 2 million times, according to Nintendo. Epic said that Fortnite had been downloaded over 15 million times for Android within three weeks of its launch.
On the release of Season 5 in July 2018, Akamai Technologies reported that Fortnite traffic neared 37 terabytes per second, the largest recorded amount of traffic for any video game that they have observed. With its quarterly financial report ending September 30, 2018, Nintendo said that Fortnite Battle Royale had been downloaded on about half of all Switch systems they have sold, representing about 11.5 million downloads. In May 2018, Epic announced a partnership with sports apparel manufacturing company IMG to produce official Fortnite-themed clothing. Further, with this deal, Hasbro produced Fortnite-based Nerf blasters, which reached retail in 2019.
The main gameplay for Fortnite Battle Royale follows the standard format for the battle royale genre. The game normally is played either with each player on their own, or in a squad of two to four players, with up to 100 players participating each round. The round starts with players, weaponless, skydiving from floating buses ("Battle Bus") then deploying a glider onto a region of land. Following on from another epic live event, players were left floating at sea as the Island completely flipped to reveal some brand new locations. Although details about what exactly is coming in Chapter 3, leaks have revealed that new mechanics such as sliding will be introduced, as well as a Spider-Man collab.
When Chapter 2 arrived, Fortnite became a black hole for a day after a series of dimension-shattering rocket launches sucked everything into oblivion. This is more or less a cheeky way of performing huge amounts of maintenance, which is obviously needed when shifting to a brand new map, updating game features, and whatever else Epic is planning. Following the finale of Chapter 2, players were left floating in the ocean. Fortnite's second chapter is finally coming to an end this week, which means it's time for a new in-game event. Epic has been tight-lipped about what exactly this new event will include — and whether or not the game will have downtime before the next chapter — but we at least know a few things to help players get ready. The closest comparison is probably the live event that brought the original version of Fortnite to a close back in October 2019.
That event surprised players with a black hole that sucked up the entire Fortnite island, effectively rendering the game unplayable for two days before Fortnite Chapter 2 began. On May 5, Epic Games announced an extension to the release date of its upcoming Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 game. This isn't the first time that the team has delayed the upcoming season. However, in mid-April, there's an extension from the initial date to a new date – June 4. Now, the team has again extended the launch date of Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 by a week, to June 11. Some parents see potential in their children becoming skilled in Fortnite as to become professional players and compete for part of the large prize pools, creating a market for tutors to help children improve their skills in the game.
At the same time, as Fortnite Battle Royale became a social hangout for younger players, issues of peer pressure and bullying have been raised. While Fortnite has been successful in its monetization scheme, this approach using battle passes and rotating skin availability induces players to continue to spend money in a "Keeping up with the Joneses"-type effect. Epic announced in May 2020 alongside its reveal of the upcoming Unreal Engine 5 that ports of Fortnite for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are planned to be available at the time of consoles' releases in late 2020.
These will initially run on Unreal Engine 4, but the game is expected to transition to Unreal Engine 5 by mid-2021 when the engine is released. Fortnite finally moved to Unreal Engine 5 with the launch of Chapter 3 in December 2021. Epic has the ability to include limited-time modes within the game, which provides Epic with experimental capabilities and gain feedback from players to improve upon. Epic has stated that they intend to add ranked competitive play in the future. A preliminary competitive mode, Solo Showdown, ran for a limited time starting in May 2018, ranking players by their final placement in matches and rewarding the top-placing competitors with V-Bucks. One big change is that players will have more ways to earn battle pass XP outside of the battle royale mode.
Typically, if you wanted to earn battle pass stars/XP, you were restricted to playing in one of the normal battle royale modes, or the 50 vs. 50 Team Rumble. Presumably, this means you can earn XP in alternate modes like Creative and LTMs. That will be great for players who want to earn higher-level skins, but don't have the interest or skill for intensely competitive multiplayer stuff.
The Fortnite servers are still down but the update was pushed live a few hours ago. Data-miners have already looked through the files and have leaked challenges, weapons, and upcoming skins as well as the starter pack for season 1. According to the latest update from trusted Fortnite leaker HYPEX, Fortnite Chapter 3 is expected to start on the morning of December 7, after the Season 8 live event on December 5 and two days of downtime. Fortnite Chapter 3 begins very soon, more than two years after the infamous black hole swallowed the battle royale universe to kick off Chapter 2 in 2019. According to the latest leaks, rumors, and official announcements, Chapter 2 will be two seasons shorter than its predecessor despite lasting for longer overall. Details remain scarce, but here's everything we know about Battle Royale's next big overhaul with regard to important dates, skins, and features fans might see in the new map.
Finally, it's also likely that we'll learn more about the upcoming Matrix crossover that's expected to bring us Neo and Trinity skins. An 'Unreal 5 Experience' has been announced for sometime in the month of December as we expect the Fortnite crossover to go live around the same time. Epic Games will bring players into the holiday spirit with Winterfest 2021. This event features new cosmetic skins, bundles, challenges, and other fun additions for fans to enjoy in the battle royale.
As announced on Thursday by the Epic Games, the Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 end date has been extended by a week. That's because the team wants to get everything ready, before the release date of the upcoming Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 game. Now, June 11 will be the new date for the launching of the upcoming season, instead of its previous set date of June 4.
This latest update is only the third season in Fortnite Chapter 2. This 'new' version of Fortnite launched to a lot of fuss, but has simmered a little as time has passed. With most seasons being hit with hefty delays, a lot of people are wondering is Fortnite dying. Epic's newest addition to the game will hopefully put these fears of some of the best Fortnite players to rest for a while. The Fortnite Chapter 2 finale event, called The End, took place on Saturday with players seeing the entire island flipped over.
Developer Epic Games took the game offline following the event leaving players waiting to see what happens in Chapter 3. In March 2018, Epic announced it was making Fortnite Battle Royale for Android and iOS mobile devices. The iOS version was released first, and was expected to be followed by the Android version by mid-2018. The beta version for iOS devices launched on March 15, 2018, and opened to all players on April 2, 2018.
A release of Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch video game console had been rumored in the week prior to the E in June 2018. The game was released on June 12, 2018, the same day as the announcement. It is the first game to support direct voice chat through the Switch console through software provided by Vivox.
With the success of the Switch version of Fortnite, Vivox had made its voice chat software development kit available for other Switch games. S primary distinction from other battle royale games is the building system, which originated from the original Fortnite survival game. Weaker pieces can be destroyed in a few hits, but can be built quickly, while stronger pieces can withstand more damage, but take longer to build.
The idea for Battle Royale arose following the release of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in 2017, a similar battle royale game that was highly successful but noted for its technical flaws. Originally released as part of the early access version of Save the World, Epic later transitioned the game to a free-to-play model funded by microtransactions. Following its rise in popularity, Epic split the development team, with one focusing on Battle Royale and the other on Save the World. For the second time in Fortnite history, the game is set to enter into a new chapter - and marking the end of Chapter 2 Season 8 is a huge one-off live event for players.
It would be weird for Fortnite to not include a battle pass for the inaugural season of Chapter 3, so of course they've got one ready. The official Polish Fortnite YouTube channel jumped the gun and posted its trailer early, and although it was quickly taken down players had already saved copies. With the theme titled Out of Time, they planned from the beginning of the season to completely revamp the game inFortnite Chapter 2.
A lot of players were left concerned when everything got sucked into a black hole at the end of the chapter, as we didn't hear any news for several days. Fortnite Chapter 3 is expected to begin on Sunday, December 4, 2021, at 10am ET following a day of downtime caused by the Chapter 2 finale – we've got a recap of that brilliant live event here. It's that time of the year again where Epic Games brings us a tasty new update for its ever-popular Battle Royale game, Fortnite.
With the release of Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3, players will now find themselves battling it out on an island map that's almost entirely submerged by water. Only a few places remain above the surface, and players will need to get used to swimming about if they're going to get that all-important Victory Royale. If the timer represents the end of Season 2 and beginning of Season 3, when will the new season kick off? Speculation is that the live event will show the entire island being gulped by a gigantic black hole while loopers have escaped into a different reality.
