Fortnite Chapter 5, Season 1 is nearly right here.
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Update 12/03/2023. See updates under.
It’s a giant weekend for Fortnite followers.
Fortnite OG, after lower than a month-long season, has come to an finish. The wildly in style season, which returned to the unique map, noticed over 100 million gamers over the course of November, making it the preferred season of the free-to-play Battle Royale sport ever.
The OG season was capped off by an enormous live-event that includes rapper Eminem. The Big Bang occasion also showed off three new games coming to the Fortnite expertise:
- LEGO Fortnite — A survival/crafting LEGO journey.
- Rocket Racing — A racing sport developed by Rocket League studio Psynonix.
- Fortnite Festival — A music sport developed by Rock Band studio Harmonix the place you may play in bands solo or with pals. This is kicking off with The Weeknd on December ninth
LEGO Fortnite
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The live-event was so in style that many gamers, together with me, had been met with hour-long queues and couldn’t login to hitch the enjoyable. Fortunately, Epic is working the occasion two extra instances right this moment.
Now, Epic has disabled all Fortnite experiences and sport modes besides player-created content material for the remainder of the day as the sport’s builders put together for Chapter 5, Season 1. The new season is being known as Underground. You can watch the trailer for the brand new season (that includes Family Guy’s Peter Griffin and Metal Gear’s Snake) proper right here.
All of that is anticipation of the brand new Chapter 5, Season 1 and a model new map. Servers will probably be taking place later in order that Epic can push the replace. Server downtime kicks off at 11:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm PT. Typically these huge seasonal updates take a couple of hours, and this one may take a bit longer given it’s a model new Chapter as properly, with an entire new map and extra. There’s not a precise time for the brand new season to go dwell, however count on it someday early morning on Sunday, December third. You ought to be capable to set up the replace by the point you get up within the morning.
The three new video games—LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival—will all kick off after the beginning of the brand new season subsequent week.
Update — Servers Are Down!
Servers at the moment are down and Fortnite is unplayable till Epic pushes the brand new patch. This one goes to take longer than normal in line with the developer. When the replace is prepared, be ready for a big obtain.
“Patch sizes may be larger than usual,” the Fortnite Status Twitter/X account tweeted. “We will update you when it is available to start installing.”
The inflow of gamers throughout Saturday’s huge live-event (which ran thrice over the course of the day) led to a variety of technical points, inflicting Epic to carry down numerous sport modes together with Save The World in an effort to stabilize efficiency. At one level, Fortnite was down fully.
Chapter 5, Season 1 will launch as quickly because the patch is full, although it’s unclear when precisely that will probably be. Most new seasons launch early within the morning, typically properly earlier than most individuals are up taking part in video video games. This one may take longer as a result of bigger measurement of the patch. New Chapters, which include model new maps and a bunch of different huge adjustments, usually have bigger replace sizes.
I’ll monitor the sport’s standing and replace this put up when it goes dwell. Get prepared for a brand new map, crossovers with Family Guy, LEGO, Metal Gear Solid, and weapon mods, in addition to improved motion, a brand new Battle Pass and rather more. Stay tuned for extra updates.
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