Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 is coming up very quickly now, but you may not have even realized it. The final stretch of Season 2 has been, to this point, relatively quiet, thanks to the surprising lack of leaks about what’s coming up. Without leaks, we have to wait for Epic Games to fire up the marketing cycle.
Fortunately, that’ll have to happen very soon, because the Start of Season 3 is just days away now. Let’s dive into what we know so far.
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 start date
Season 3 will begin on Saturday, June 6, likely very early in the morning, US time. We never know the exact timing with these things, but Fortnite will go offline for maintenance on Friday night after the season-ending live event, and then Season 3 will launch several hours later.
Season finale event
“Did you say there’s a live event ahead?” Indeed, I did! The event, dubbed Shattered, will involve one last battle between the Ice King and Dwayne “The Foundation” Johnson, and it’s all going down on Friday, June 6, at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. Apparently, your experience will be customized based on whether you picked Team Foundation or Team Ice King, which sounds pretty cool.
When will Epic start hyping up Season 3?
It looks as though the marketing cycle for Season 3 will start on Saturday, May 30, which Epic is billing as Community Day. Anyone who logs in that day (from 6 AM PT on May 30 through 6 AM PT on May 31) will receive a set of rewards, including a clean silver weapon wrap and an umbrella glider, and battle pass owners will get a bonus tie-wearing version of the current Foundation skin.
But, more importantly for the purpose of this article, is that some sort of story moment will occur during this week’s power hour, slated for 12:30 PM PT on May 30, which will begin the run-up to the season finale event. Whatever goes down during the power hour should provide our first details about season 3. Fingers crossed.
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 battle pass and gameplay changes
Nothing from the upcoming battle pass has been revealed yet, and there haven’t been any leaks about Season 3 specifically. We do have three potential leaks about Season 3, however, thanks to AdiraFNInfo, a former contractor at Epic Games who leaked a number of collabs in January and February. Nearly all of their leaked collabs have come true already, but there are still three more to go: Masters of the Universe, Kingdom Hearts, and Minecraft.
It would be pointless to speculate about Kingdom Hearts or Minecraft, but the new Masters of the Universe movie hits theaters in the US the same weekend that Season 3 begins, so that would have been a pretty good guess for a battle pass collab even without Adira’s leak. So don’t be surprised if Skeletor pops up on the Season 3 battle pass.
We’ll update this post as we learn more.
