When Does ‘Fortnite’ Chapter 3 Season 1 End And Season 2 Begin?

According to the in-game Battle Pass, Fortnite’s current season is set to expire today with a new season kicking off Sunday, March 20th.

But there’s a problem: Epic Games hasn’t so much as dropped a teaser for Chapter 3, Season 2. There’s no mention of a season-ending event for Season 1. There’s not even a juicy leak or two to suggest that a new season is ever releasing for the battle royale game.

Of course, we will be getting a Season 2, but nobody seems to know when it’s going to start. Some websites have posted guides suggesting we’ll see the launch of the new Season sometime Sunday morning, but I’m not at all convinced.

There is simply no precedence here. Epic has never released a new season without deploying various teasers, trailers, hints on social media and/or in the game itself. Every season since as far back as I can remember launched with some kind of build-up, whether that was a comet slowly growing in the sky, or a series of cryptic images released on Twitter.

This whole “mum’s the word” thing could just be a new marketing strategy, of course. Epic could be purposefully staying silent so that blog posts like this will be published and forums will fill up with people wondering out loud what’s going on. Maybe it’s all a prank—Epic is just trolling all the data miners and leakers and guide writers and game journalists and, well, the gamers, too. But I remain skeptical of this.

My guess? The season will be delayed. Maybe Epic doesn’t want to launch while the war in Ukraine is so fresh. Maybe there’s some technical hang-up. Who can say? All I know is that it’s very strange and out of character for the developer to not say a thing, have no live-event or in-game lead-up or anything at all. I could be wrong, and maybe we’ll get a surprise launch of Season 2 on Sunday, but it just doesn’t seem quite right to me.

I guess we’ll find out more (almost certainly the moment I publish this, they’ll come out with an official announcement!).

The only thing Epic has told me is a non-answer. When I asked if they had any information about Season 2, a spokesperson replied: “Thanks for reaching out! We have no information to share at this time.”

They also suggested that I have a good weekend, which I aim to do whether or not Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 2 kicks off. Stay safe out there, young padawans!

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