Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that OG Fortnite is returning next week, November 3rd, 2023 (11.03.2023).
We’re just a week away from the debut of Fortnite Chapter 4, Season 5, and while Epic thinks that it’s been keeping things mysterious, we’ve all guessed for some time that it’d feature the classic Chapter 1 map. This was made obvious thanks to teases made by the Twitter account, evidence found in-game, and packages sent to content creators, but it still wasn’t quite official and was just a series of elaborate, obvious teases.
What’s more, despite us returning to the Chapter 1 map, it appears that movement mechanics won’t go missing during the next season.
Epic Games has confirmed that sprinting and mantling will continue to be present in-game, despite datamines claiming otherwise.
Don’t get too attached to the Fortnite OG map either – as leaks seem to indicate that it will rapidly change as the season goes on, incorporating elements from old seasons as we presumably race forward in time.
After months of being the worst-kept secret in Fortnite history (well, until Peter Griffin eventually gets confirmed to be real), Epic Games has finally confirmed the rumours that the next season will feature the return of Chapter 1’s map.
Beyond confirming that we’re going to be revisiting the Chapter 1 map, the tweet interestingly also debunks another rumour about the season that’s been going around recently. Some insiders suggested that the new movement options offered in recent seasons like tactical sprinting and mantling will be disabled in the new season due to the map being so much simpler and focused more on building than movement, but this tweet implies that they’ll be sticking around.
This upcoming update, which kicks off on November 3, 2023, will see players time travel into the past and experience Fortnite during the iconic early days.
According to the time machine teases, the date we’re heading back to is July 12, 2018. Longtime players may remember this as the release of the original Season 5, so the map won’t be quite as it was on day one.
