[News] Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3: Start Date, Collabs, Leaks, Rumors, And Everything Else We Know

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With Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 just days away, Epic's promotional cycle has begun, starting with live, ongoing changes to the battle royale map as part of the ramp-up, and continuing with a series of small teases over the weekend.

And, most importantly, we're finally getting some real info about what kind of mayhem is in store for us in Chapter 5 Season 3. And we apparently know the headlining collaboration for this season, too. Hint: It rhymes with "ballout." Read on for all the deets.

 

When does Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 start? : 

 

Currently, Season 2 is slated to end on May 24, which is a Friday. Usually, that means that Fortnite's season will end very early in the morning on the 24th in the US, around 4 AM ET, and then the game will go down for maintenance for several hours.

If all goes as planned, Season 3 will begin several hours later on the morning of May 24. But we're not making any promises on that--Season 2 had a very messy launch that saw Fortnite stay offline in maintenance for nearly a day.

 

Will Chapter 5 Season 2 end with a live event? :

 

Not in the "everybody logs on at noon on a Saturday for a big show" sense, no. But, like how Season 1 ended with the big hand emerging from the ground with Pandora's Box, the battle royale map is changing in real time, electrifying the giant statue at Mt. Olympus and lighting up Pandora's Box where it sits in the center of the island. After a a couple days of lightning strikes, Pandora's Box sank into the lake and the storm clouds around the statue dissipated--but now the statue is all cracked up, and we can see a huge incoming storm to the south of the island, filled with dust and ominous red lightning.

 

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 brings the Fallout :

 

On May 17, Epic revealed the main collaboration for Chapter 5 Season 3: the Fallout video game franchise. This teaser image is the entire announcement of this collab, so we have very few specifics about what this will entail. But clearly there will be at least one new Fallout-themed location, and Brotherhood of Steel power armor will either be a skin or equipment that can be found on the battle royale map. And I would be very surprised if we don't get some vault dweller skins, though that could be a shop thing.

Over the weekend, we also got a 15-second cinematic teaser that showed off the season's vehicular focus, which you can watch here. The fine print on this teaser mentions Epic Games and ZeniMax (which owns Fallout) as expected--and also Marvel. Having a Marvel copyright on a trailer usually means there's a Marvel thing in the trailer, though it's hardly obvious what it could be. We're going to have to wait a minute to find out, it looks like.

 

What else is coming in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3: 

 

Aside from what's been teased, another random tidbit we know about next season is it should bring the long-awaited integration of Fall Guys into the Fortnite ecosystem. We don't know what all that will entail, but it's expected that Fall Guys will be playable inside Fortnite in some manner as a UEFN creation, that UEFN creators will be able to use Fall Guys props in their own games, and that there will be Fall Guys-related stuff in battle royale modes as well. Though all this may not happen at the same time.

 

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