Fortnite Chapter 6 has gotten off to a pretty strong start, adding new permanent modes with Fortnite OG and Ballistic, dropping a full-sized Godzilla on the island, and ushering in the game’s Hatsune Miku era. But Chapter 6 Season 2 is just around the corner, bringing with it a whole new slate of attractions. With a few days to go before Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 starts, here’s everything we know so far.
When does Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 begin?
Season 1 is currently scheduled to come to a close on February 21 at 11 PM PT/ 2 AM ET. That would mean that Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 should begin a few hours later on the morning of Friday, February 21.
Will Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1 have a live finale event?
The Jan. 31 update added some interesting items to the Fortnite game files, including many indications that Season 1 will end with some sort of ambient live event on the battle royale island to bring the season story to a close. What exactly the event will entail is still a mystery, but the first stage of buildup has begun–the NPC Daigo has moved on from the spot in the Nightshift Forest where he’s been battling demons all season and has taken up new residence by the unused portal in the mountains above Warrior’s Watch, and that is where the big finale will go down.
Fortnite chapter 6 Season 2 battle pass and season theme
No part of the battle pass has leaked just yet, but we’ve got a big hint in the form of a theme: Reportedly, Chapter 6 Season 2 will be another heist season. Fortnite has had a lot of heist seasons, including two different ones in Chapter 4. Since Chapter 6 already echoes Chapter 4 with the feudal theme and a throwback version of the Japan biome from that map–Seaport City is basically proto-Mega City in terms of its layout and structure, and the surrounding areas are very similar–the return of a prominent Chapter 4 theme isn’t too shocking.
Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein has the seasonal tradition of teasing each upcoming season with a single word–his word for Season 12 is “pickled.” We don’t know what all that terms entails, but it likely has something to do with the Kappa Kappa pickle factory that was added to the map last month, and all those little posters there that appear to depict a pickled version of Peely. So I’d expect a big pickle man skin in the battle pass, at least.
Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 potential collabs
Like we said above, there aren’t any confirmed details yet about Chapter 6 Season 2 cosmetics. But there are some rumored collaborations coming up that may fall into Season 2. In particular, there have been reports of cosmetics based on James Cameron’s Avatar, and a customizable Iron Man skin. Both of these leaked collabs could happen during Season 1, but I think that’s unlikely for the Iron Man skin specifically because there are also rumors of new cosmetics tied to Captain America: Brave New World, which is in theaters on February 14.
It seems unlikely that Marvel would undercut its own timely collab for a skin that could be released literally any time, and a customizable Iron Man skin sounds more like a battle pass thing anyway, given the lack of style options we’ve seen among item shop collab skins for the past year. See, for example, the Iron Man Mk. 45 skin that Epic dropped in the shop last fall, which had no style options at all.
Meanwhile, Fortnite has been advertising heavily during WWE events lately, including Monday Night RAW in January, Royal Rumble on February 1, and also the upcoming Elimination Chamber in March. But none of the existing WWE skins have even appeared in the item shop in seven months and counting, so we’re overdue for some wrestling content in Fortnite.
Other rumors and leaks for Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2
One particularly interesting change that Epic made with Chapter 6 was to allow players to use their Festival guitars and other instruments as pickaxes and back blings, dramatically increasing the hypothetical usefulness of those cosmetics–if you like hitting things with guitars, anyway. Now, reportedly, Epic is looking at doing something similar with kicks by turning the shoes that certain skins are wearing into kicks–meaning, for example, that buying the Green Roots Billie skin would also grant you her green and black Air Force 1 Mids as kicks to use on any skin.
Stick around as we’ll be updating this roundup of Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 news, rumors, and leaks frequently as we approach the start date.
