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We’re slightly greater than per week away from Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 and, uh, nicely, it has been fairly the eventful summer season. The present season has been so divisive that Epic created a completely new battle royale mode to compensate for it. That places lots of stress on Season 4 to be a success with as many individuals as doable. And contemplating the most important rumor (that subsequent season shall be all about Marvel, with Physician Doom as a specific focus) plus latest information (that Robert Downey Jr is returning to the MCU to play Physician Doom), it might be in retailer for some very good things.
It is nonetheless a bit early for the hype cycle to begin formally, though–that will not occur till we’re nearer to the launch date–so there is not a lot official data about subsequent season but except for the beginning date. Talking of which…
When does Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 begin?
Per the in-game signage, Season 4 ought to begin on Friday, August 16, in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the morning US time.
Fortnite Competition Season 5 can be presently slated for a similar day. It will likely be the primary time a brand new BR season and a brand new Competition season began on the identical day since Competition Season 1 in December 2023.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 Finale Occasion
Fortnite is holding some form of reside, season-ending occasion per week earlier than the season really ends. We are able to already see a countdown for the occasion in-game at Brutal Beachhead–it’s set for Saturday, August 10 at 2pm ET/11am PT. This would be the similar form of in-game ambient occasion that we noticed on the finish of the previous two seasons–something will go down at Brutal Beachhead at the moment, and you may must pop right into a spherical of battle royale on the appointed time to see it.
Season 4 has lengthy been rumored to be a brand new Marvel-focused season, a la Chapter 2 Season 4, and so it is sensible that Epic would need a larger-than-usual build-up. Whereas not one of the traditional leakers appear to know what’s in retailer in the course of the occasion, apparently it should contain Pandora’s Field as soon as once more. And if the rumors of a Marvel season are true, there is a respectable likelihood we’ll see Magneto and Dr Doom in motion in the course of the occasion.
What’s new in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4?
Nothing has been formally introduced, however we have some fairly essential particulars about what to anticipate from Epic’s leaked 2024 roadmap a number of months in the past, which has to this point confirmed genuine because it had each Billie Eilish and Metallica as Competition headliners, and teased the present car-themed season.
Protecting in thoughts that a few of their plans have definitely modified given the response to Season 3 and the following launch of Reload, the roadmap instructed us that Colombian celebrity Karol G shall be headlining Competition Season 5, and that battle royale Chapter 5 Season 4 would be the second Marvel-themed season total, and the primary since 2020.
The artwork for the Marvel season in the important thing artwork confirmed Physician Doom, which may imply it is centered on the Implausible 4–which has a film on the best way within the MCU. Plus, uh, there’s that large information out of Comedian-Con which might be associated.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 is a brand new Marvel season–with Physician Doom?
Let’s tackle the elephant within the room: Robert Downey Jr, who spent a decade enjoying Iron Man and being the face of the MCU, is returning to play Physician Doom. With the mix of that information, plus Doom being on the leaked roadmap, it solely is sensible that he’d be a key antagonist on this upcoming season.
However I am curious if we would really get a Physician Doom pores and skin that carries Downey Jr’s likeness. Marvel has by no means accomplished that earlier than with its skins–the Tom Hardy/Venom, Tom Holland/Spider-Man and Zendaya/MJ skins are all, legally, from Sony motion pictures, however not one of the characters from Disney’s MCU motion pictures have actor likenesses. However there are some elements to contemplate.
First: Fortnite already has a Physician Doom pores and skin, from the earlier Marvel-focused battle cross in Chapter 2 Season 4. As a result of every battle cross is unique to its season, a brand new Physician Doom must be distinctively completely different from the outdated ones–see, for instance, the brand new Deadpool and Wolverine skins. Having a brand new model of Doom that carries a celeb’s likeness would do the trick, because it did with the beforehand talked about Tom Holland Spider-Man pores and skin.
Second: skins with an actor’s license appear to typically have a restricted shelf life–all of these Sony Marvel skins have been out of the store rotation for a while, and the Eddie Brock pores and skin hasn’t been accessible because the finish of 2021. Contemplating skins like that require a number of licenses, it could be cost-prohibitive to repeatedly renew these licenses. Placing them on a battle cross, with its inherent exclusivity that may’t be renewed anyway, can be a possible resolution.
Third: There have been a number of battle cross skins primarily based on an actual individual’s likeness, however there hasn’t been one since Khaby Lame in Chapter 4 Season 4. So it might be that we’re due–especially since Epic wants a giant spike in gamers after a tough summer season season.
However all that’s simply hypothesis, and possibly slightly little bit of my hopes and goals seeping in.
Given how intensely divisive Season 3 has been, I’d have thought that we’ll be seeing a extra simple season subsequent day out. However I could also be utterly improper, because the earlier Marvel season gave us all types of untamed mythic gadgets primarily based on Marvel superpowers. In keeping with Hypex, one such mythic shall be a brand new model of Wolverine’s claws. In the course of the earlier Marvel season, each battle cross pores and skin had an accompanying mythic in battle royale. Underneath regular circumstances I might assume that can occur once more, however with the state of affairs being what it’s, Epic may rein it in slightly.
Fortnite Competition Season 5
It is very attention-grabbing that Epic would select to launch new seasons of Competition and BR on the identical day, however it’s unimaginable to guess why since Karol G is not slated to look in any Marvel motion pictures. However since they often stagger the season launches, it is doable there is a particular motive for doing this. We’ll have to attend to be taught extra as we proceed inching nearer to the launch of the brand new season.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 collab leaks and rumors
Jason Voorhees in Friday the thirteenth Half VI
If we’re getting a Marvel season, clearly there shall be tons of Marvel cosmetics on the battle cross, plus a pile of merchandise store stuff to go along with. However that is not all that might be coming throughout Season 4, which is when this 12 months’s version of Fortnitemares will happen. Phrase is, from a number of completely different sources, that Jason Voorhees from the Friday the thirteenth franchise will make his Fortnite debut throughout this 12 months’s Fortnitemares, possible as this 12 months’s new spooky merchandise store collab pores and skin, following Michael Myers a 12 months in the past and Ash Williams the 12 months before–this is a good annual custom.
We’re additionally anticipating a giant NASCAR collab with Rocket League and Rocket Racing, in response to new leaks, although that will not start throughout Season 4. However it’s on the horizon, allegedly.
Is it virtually time for Fortnite OG 2?
After the huge success of final 12 months’s 30-day Fortnite OG season, Epic promised it will be again with extra of that form of factor sooner or later. It’s possible you’ll be tempted to assume that Reload is what they had been speaking about, however it’s not–a second OG season, primarily based on the Chapter 2 map, is reportedly nonetheless going to occur later this 12 months. The leaked roadmap places it after Season 4, similar to final 12 months, so that is the protected guess. Search for it to in all probability kick off in early November and run till the presumed finish of the Chapter a few month later.
