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. 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. 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. The UK's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at the time Matt Hancock, expressed concern at how much time children were playing Fortnite Battle Royale and similar video games without a balance of physical exercise and social interactions. 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. Events in Fortnite tend to be momentous occasions for the player base. A new season or chapter around the corner is usually signified with special collaborations or new updates to the popular battle royale game.
But when an event is bigger than the rest, that's when the in-game countdown starts. 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. 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. The season finale of Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 8, known as 'The End', will begin December 4 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT / 9pm GMT. Like other season finale events, we recommend that you log into the game at least 30 minutes before the event starts to guarantee your place. Any player who logs into Fortnite and completes the event will unlock a unique loading screen and a wrap. 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 initiated a lawsuit in October 2019 against a Fortnite experience tester that leaked details of the Chapter 2 transition days before the event occurred, which included details of the map and mechanics, stating the tester broke confidentiality agreements. 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. 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. Even after the conclusion of the event, during the 36-hour period that the Fortnite game only showed a black screen with a spot of light on it, Fortnite streams had up to 327,000 viewers on Twitch and 437,000 viewers on YouTube watching the idle animation.
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. 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.
It's not exactly clear what happened here but "getting everything ready" likely means things having to do with both the coming Doomsday countdown event and the map changes it will bring. My current theory is that the map will be heavily flooded by a man-made hurricane set off by Midas and the Doomsday Device at the Agency. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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. Fortnite season 6 began on the 16th of March 2021 and has been going strong since then. According to a leak from fire monkey on Twitter, Fortnite season 7 has already reached the staging server phase.
The release date for Fortnite season 7 has been set for the 8th of June 2021. On that day the players will be greeted with a whole new season, new events, challenges, battle pass, POIs, and more. 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. With the announcement of the finale to Chapter 2, 'The End' has players fight against the Cube Queen as she emerges from the pyramid she built using her purple Cube brethren. However, like previous end-of-season events, this will likely end with a countdown timer showing when the next season begins.
While the countdown timers were eventually reset with the new end date, they stayed the same for a while, so I would not be surprised if there was a chunk of the playerbase tuning in today expecting for there to be an event. A brand new countdown timer is now present on the island, counting down to the end of the ongoing season. The timer is located between Guava Fort and the Pyramid, the new POI at the southern end of Pleasant Park. If no changes are made to the prevailing timer, then the Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 8 will end on December 4 and the in-game live event will start on the same day at 4.00 pm EST, 1.00 pm PST, 2.30 am IST, and 9.00 pm UTC. And now, players are taken on immersive trips in front of Ariana Grande and Travis Scott. However, while this update may bring about some promising changes for fans, the excitement will truly be felt at the end of the week when the Doomsday event finally happens.
If you're completely lost as to what this will involve, here you'll find an explanation for what Doomsday is as well as an explanation of the countdown timer. 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. 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."
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 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. The Countdown event is supposed to be a Fortnite season 7 Live Event for the players. This Countdown will last till the time Fortnite launches season 7 and ends season 6 for the players.
The release date for season 7 has been set for the 8th of June and the Fortnite season 7 Live event will last till that date. According to all the rumors, speculations, and events occurring in Fortnite Island, players have deduced the theme of the next season to be aliens, and UFOs and Fortnite is having a live event with the same theme. During this live event, the players will be put inside a fresh Fortnite season 7 Map. This Fortnite season7 Map will only be available to the players that have downloaded the Fortnite Update 17.00.
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. 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.
Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 Countdown 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. In a blog post on the official Fortnite site, players will need to "grab weapons and fight the ultimate destroyer of all reality," which is The Cube Queen. The event is called "The End," and Epic says it's a one-time event that will basically never happen again, just like the many previous events over the years in Fortnite. Players can create their own parties of up to 16 people and team up to take on the Sideways Corruption one last time in the climactic finale. Players should hop into Fortnite about 30 minutes before the event to get situated in the playlist. These live events have been everything from concerts to giant battles where millions of players have been able to experience the adrenaline-fueled action simultaneously.
Many things have made Fortnite one of the most popular games in the world over the past couple of years, with one of the most important being the exciting live events that Epic Games has pulled off over the course of the game's many seasons. 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. The popular battle royale game ended its second chapter and went offline until the start of Fortnite Chapter 3 on Tuesday.
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. 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. 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. With the popularity of Fortnite Battle Royale by the start of 2018, Epic split off a separate development team to focus on improvements for this mode.
Epic said that their attention to Fortnite was causing some of their other games to see lower player populations, leading them to reduce development efforts on these games, particularly Paragon. By the end of January 2018, Epic announced it was shutting down Paragon by April of that year, providing refunds to all players. Similarly, Epic announced it had halted development of the planned free-to-play Unreal Tournament game, its team transitioned to Fortnite, though the game will remain available, playable, and open to end-user modifications.
The End playlist, which is where the live event will take place, will begin 30 minutes before the above times - and based on the popularity of previous events, it's highly recommended you log in then to ensure your place to see the finale. 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.
