Now that the newest Star Wars occasion has ended, Fortnite is shifting gears towards hyping the following season of battle royale. With Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 simply days away, Epic’s promotional cycle has begun, beginning with reside, ongoing adjustments to the battle royale map as a part of the ramp-up.
That stated, we formally nonetheless know little or no about what’s in retailer for us subsequent season. However that is not the identical as understanding nothing. We have got a few issues we all know will occur, in addition to numerous rumors and potential leaks about another issues, together with some main new collabs.
When does Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 begin?
At the moment, Season 2 is slated to finish on Could 24, which is a Friday. Normally, that implies that Fortnite’s season will finish very early within the morning on the twenty fourth within the US, round 4 AM ET, after which the sport will go down for upkeep for a number of hours.
If all goes as deliberate, Season 3 will start a number of hours later on the morning of Could 24. However we’re not making any guarantees on that–Season 2 had a really messy launch that noticed Fortnite keep offline in upkeep for practically a day.
Will Chapter 5 Season 2 finish with a reside occasion?
Not within the “all people logs on at midday on a Saturday for a giant present” sense, no. However, like how Season 1 ended with the large hand rising from the bottom with Pandora’s Field, the battle royale map is altering in actual time, electrifying the large statue at Mt. Olympus and lighting up Pandora’s Field the place it sits within the heart of the island.
Whereas we do not know what precisely is on the finish of all this, dataminers point out that a large sandstorm will pop up in some unspecified time in the future throughout this. Keep in mind that detail–we’ll come again to it shortly.
What we all know for certain is coming in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3
The one factor that has been introduced for subsequent season is the long-awaited integration of Fall Guys into the Fortnite ecosystem. We do not know what all that can entail, but it surely’s anticipated that Fall Guys will likely be playable inside Fortnite in some method as a UEFN creation, that UEFN creators will have the ability to use Fall Guys props in their very own video games, and that there will likely be Fall Guys-related stuff in battle royale modes as properly. Although all this may increasingly not occur on the identical time.
Apart from that, the one different certainty is that Season 3 will give us Fortnite’s annual summer time occasion in July.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 leaks and rumors
Not too long ago, Epic’s alleged roadmap for the Fortnite ecosystem in 2024 emerged from the bowels of the web, and it gained a number of credibility within the eyes of the group when its prediction that Billie Eilish could be the following Fortnite Competition icon turned out to be right. Since it is a roadmap for the entire 12 months, it is obtained some large potential particulars about Chapter 5 Season 3.
First, the roadmap’s picture for the summer time season is a Mad Max-looking loading display screen, and there have been separate leaks about vehicular fight–Could 24 can also be the day that Furiosa hits theaters, and the beforehand talked about large sandstorm displaying up throughout the ramp-up to Season 3 would additionally assist in transitioning us to that aesthetic, so all of it makes a number of sense. It additionally lists a Pirates of the Caribbean collab throughout this era, so perhaps the long-rumored Jack Sparrow pores and skin may very well be the bonus pores and skin within the battle go.
Fortnite Competition Season 4
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A brand new season of Fortnite Competition will start on June 13, just some weeks into Chapter 5, Season 3. We have got no info or rumors about it, save what the alleged roadmap says: Metallica is Season 4’s featured artist.
Rocket Racing in Chapter 5 Season 3
Rocket Racing is presently within the midst of its first season of content material, Neon Rush, and it is protected to anticipate main updates within the subsequent few months as Epic continues to help its fledgling racer. The alleged leaked roadmap appears to point that the following Neon Rush-level replace will kick off a volcano theme.
Individually, there is a rumor that battle royale gamers will quickly have the ability to customise SUVs the identical method they presently can with sports activities automobiles, which also needs to apply to Rocket Racing, permitting a few of Rocket League’s boxier automobile varieties to lastly cross over.
Lego Fortnite in Chapter 5 Season 3
Lego Fortnite has begun its summer time season already with this Star Wars event–Fortnite’s new Star Wars-themed Lego Go and Star Wars story content material will run till late July.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 collabs
As talked about above, the alleged 2024 roadmap lists collabs with Pirates of the Caribbean and Metallica, whereas additionally hinting that the season will likely be themed round post-apocalyptic automobile chases–which most likely means Mad Max, if it is legit.
Past these, Fortnite leakers and dataminers have been indicating for some time that new waves of My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen cosmetics are on the way–and whereas new MHA stuff has appeared, wave 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen has not. Take into account additionally that Jujutsu Kaisen was final summer time’s large collab occasion, so perhaps they like that summer time window.
We’ll add extra rumors, leaks, and official information right here because it all is available in.