Here’s The Exact Time ‘Fortnite’ Season 3 Ends And Season 4 Begins

Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 3 has been going for just about the entire summer. In fact, the season began on June 5th, two weeks before the Summer Solstice. It ends, just a couple days before the official start of Spring.

We’ve had some clues drop about the new season, which is called Paradise—though that appears to be a darkly ironic title. While Season 3’s Vibin moniker gave it fun summery vibes, Paradise is an odd framing for what appears to be a very spooky season.

Weird liquid chrome is present in each of the teaser images so far, and it appears our heroes—and the map—may get sucked under the gooey, oily looking stuff.

We’ll know more soon enough. The end of Season 3 is nearly here, and Season 4 is just around the corner. Here’s what you need to know.

Season 3 officially ends on Sunday, September 18th at approximately 2am ET. That’s 11pm on Saturday, September 17th if you’re on Pacific Time. That breaks down to 6am UTC on Sunday the 18th.

From here, we can usually expect three or four hours of downtime depending on the update, and of course you’ll need to update your game after Epic Games does their server-side magic.

Season 4 will kick off directly after the servers come back online, so you should be up and running first thing Sunday morning when you get up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to snag some Victory Royales.

We’ll be covering the new Battle Pass, map changes, challenges and whatever else comes up here at Forbes Games. I keep hoping Epic will bring back decent challenges and fun stuff like Loading Screens and hidden Battle Stars or coins, but I try not to get my hopes up.

Good luck out there, young padawans. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook for more Fortnite Season 4 coverage.