The small islands around the main central island might be themed after locations in the previous map including Glossy Glacier, Dusty Desert, Mossy March and Monster Mansion. As the design and details of the Fortnite Chapter 3 map are not confirmed yet, readers shall take this information with a pinch of salt. While there is no current date for Chapter 3 to begin, Fortnite will announce the official maintenance and server downtime soon. Stay tuned for more updates about Epic Games and the upcoming Chapter of the popular battle royale game, Fortnite.
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. Since release, Epic Games has added more features, such as new weapon and items and makeshift vehicles such as shopping carts and golf carts. With the release of the standalone Fortnite Creative gameplay mode in December 2018, an area of the Fortnite Battle Royale map called "The Block" featured a rotating selection of user-made creations developed in Creative mode and approved by Epic.
A "Battle Lab" mode was added in December 2019 for players to create their own custom battle royale games. 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.
Fortnite players logged into the popular battle royale game today to discover that a new countdown clock has appeared over the map, counting down to December 4th. This isn't out of the ordinary for Epic Games, as the mega-publisher/developer has put countdown clocks in Fortnite before, typically signaling the approach of a massive event. This time around, however, Epic Games has confirmed that the event on December 4th will mark the end of Fortnite Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 will start shortly after. After eight full seasons of build-up, it's finally time for Fortnite players to "take on The Cube Queen in one last stand for the fate of the Island" as Chapter 2 of its popular battle royale game is ending. Epic Games had announced that the game's ongoing Chapter 2 will end on December 4, 2021. 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. Popular online battle royale game Fortnite has become more than just another game to play with your friends. Since it gained popularity in 2017, it has become somewhat of a hangout spot, throwing live events and concerts to bring together players in non-competitive settings. The upcoming 'The End' Live Event will only happen once, and the players must stay ready online to take part. The in-game event will take place at the exact time mentioned above if not for any unprecedented server issues.
Following the event, Fortnite will enter an extended amount of server downtime and the servers are expected to be offline for a total of at least 3 days for prepping the new chapter. 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.
Fortnite players have spotted a countdown in-game which appears to be showing how much time is left till the next live event. The countdown has appeared in the centre of the Battle Royale island, and first went live in the run-up to Tuesday's Fortnite update 17.21 release. The Fortnite event countdown appeared after the Special Blue Abductor arrived at the centre of the Battle Royale island. 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. 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. The current battle pass states Saturday, March 19 as the end date for season one. While Fortnite's usual update schedule brings players new content every Tuesday, it's not uncommon for events to happen on other days of the week—Chapter three launched on a Sunday, after all. This is not the first time that there has been a live countdown inFortnite.
Season 7 of Fortnite Chapter 2 also saw a similar countdown appear on the Battle Royale Island. Back then, it was leading up to the live event that capped off the seventh season and led into Season 8 known as Operation Sky Fire. The moment this countdown hits zero means thatFortniteas it is known now will change. As of the moment, Fortnite is now an all-battle and no-building type of game, at least for the meantime.
The Imagined Order kicked things up a notch by disabling the ability to build in the battle royale island. Now it's up to the players and the Resistance to get building back in Fortnite. Basically, the new "No Build" feature is only temporary and could stick around for either half or the whole season. Epic Games didn't mention anything about when the building feature will come back to the game.
For now, sweaty builders need to adapt to this new style of play in Fortnite. It's safe to say that casual Fortnite players can now keep up with the sweaty players. 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. 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. Unlike most live events in the battle royale, such as the recent Chapter 2 finale or the Ariana Grande concerts, there is no playlist that you can join for the New Year's celebrations. If you log into Fortnite now, you won't find any instructions on how to participate, or even an alert just to say that these parties are indeed happening. 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. Further live events set by Epic have continued to draw record numbers of stream viewers. The 2019 Fortnite World Cup drew 1.5 million viewers, while "The End" event that closed out Season X in October 2019 had 1.6 million. Epic reported that over 7 million total viewers across Twitch, YouTube, and Twitter across "The End" event.
The Chapter 2, Season 2 ending event in June 2020 had drawn 12 million in-game players with an additional 8.4 million watching through player streams. The single largest viewed in-game concert was the Travis Scott in-game concert in April 2020, which drew 12.3 million in-game players to watch. The single largest viewed-in game event was the Devourer of Worlds Event, which brought 15.3 million in-game players and an additional 3.4 million people watching through streams. 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. And now, players are taken on immersive trips in front of Ariana Grande and Travis Scott. Previous end-of-season events conclude with a countdown screen showing how long players will have to wait until the servers go live for the new season. Chapter 2 Season 8 had a similar event which began at 9am GMT / 4am ET / 1am PT, so you can use this time as a benchmark for what to expect when that countdown appears.
Over the past few weeks, many leaks have pointed to the destruction of some of the major POIs in Fortnite. This includes Coral Castle, which has been teased by many to be abducted soon. The upcoming live event seems to be the perfect opportunity for the developers at Epic Games to showcase the power of the enemies in the aliens that the players will have to face. FORTNITE fans have this week found out when the season 7 live event will be taking place, with a countdown appearing in-game on the Battle Royale map. Here's the time and date for the next Fortnite live event, and what fans can expect from it. Chapter 2's concluding event took things another step forward, and now we'll have to wait and see what Epic has in store for Chapter 3.
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. Ever since its release back in 2017, Fortnite has gone through a plethora of crazy changes.
Last season seemed to be the craziest change yet as we witnessed the whole battle royale island flip – but things are just about to get even crazier. Looks like Epic Games decided to go even further by taking away Fortnite's core gameplay mechanic, building. Here's everything you need to know about Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2. 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. Cosmetic skins are seen as a sign of skill and status, so younger players spend money to get the rarer skins to appear equal with their friends, or may be taunted by other players for not having such skins and using the game's "default" skins. 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.
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. Epic started a regular Fortnite Spotlight in-game concert event series in September 2020 using the "Party Royale" game mode, with such concerts from various musicians planned on a weekly basis and free for any player of Fortnite to watch.
The musician will perform their set in a special studio set up by Epic that will be digitized in game. According to Nate Nanzer, Epic Games head of global partnerships, "We're creating this platform to work with artists — big artists and up-and-coming artists." Epic Games could be planning another Fortnite in-game concert, at least based on some posters that have appeared on the battle royale island, as well as a new batch of leaks.
The news follows the recent discovery of an in-game event codenamed 'Jerky,' which was noted as an addition to the same playlist used for the previous Marshmello in-game concert. The timer in Fortnite is counting down to The End live event, which will happen on December 4 at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET/9 PM GMT. The End will be a one-time-only event where all players will take on the forces of the Cube Queen for the fate of the island. It will also mark the end of Chapter 2 Season 8 and Chapter 2 as a whole, over a year since this chapter of Fortnite began.
The game will then be offline for 48 hours and will return with the brand-new Chapter 3, along with probably a completely redesigned island map. 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. There are usually extended downtimes after updates and live events and therefore, the best probability is that Chapter 3 Season 2 will start one day after the live event in the game, which is March 20.
Normally, Fortnite seasons and updates usually arrive on a Tuesday, but we think it's unlikely for the game to be down for 3 whole days. But nevertheless, expect Chapter 3 to begin a day or two after the live event. The popular battle royale game ended its second chapter and went offline until the start of Fortnite Chapter 3 on Tuesday.
The countdown is currently showcasing the time remaining for the start of an upcoming live event in Fortnite. The clock will strike zero on that day at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT/11 PM BST. The countdown timer in-game currently gives an exact timing for when the new season is due to begin. However, that is counting down to the event that sees the end of one season. In the past this event has been followed with downtime, so that is something to be aware of.
The countdown might not necessarily be to when Fortnite Season 3 is playable. Haven's masks from last season, Tsuki 2.0 has a collection quest for players as well. Players will need to collect Omni Chips in the battle royale island to unlock different designs for the Omni Sword.
