We’ve known for a while that Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 4 would be ending on December 3, but we expected it’d just mark the start of Season 5. Our expectations have been thrown to the wind though, as the Fortnite Fracture event has been announced for December 3, being branded as the “chapter 3 finale event”.
Fortnite has had a total of 22 different seasons so far, with them being neatly split up into three different chapters. Chapter 1 encompassed the first ten seasons, lasting almost exactly two years, starting with the launch of Fortnite Battle Royale in October 2017, and ending in October 2019. Chapter 2 held eight seasons, but lasted a little longer than the first, running from October 2019 to December 2021.
This will make Chapter 3 by far the shortest chapter yet, falling just short of the one-year mark at 364 days, spanning just four seasons.
Exactly why this chapter has been made so short is unclear, but as these finale events are typically the biggest in the game’s history, bringing them about more often is sure to build up a lot more hype in the fanbase. Having roughly one a year seems like a reasonable pace for a game that has new stuff added as often as Fortnite does.
So what does a new chapter mean? The biggest feature is a brand new map. While each season makes unique changes and additions to the map, at the start of a new chapter everything is thrown in the trash and a new land is unveiled for people to explore. This clean slate brings a lot of opportunities for new mechanics too.
While Chapter 3 wasn’t huge in the mechanic department, Chapter 2 introduced water, swimming, and fishing to the game. Perhaps this new chapter has come around so quickly because a new big mechanic like that is ready to be released.
As for what the actual Fracture event will entail isn’t known yet, but given that the Chrome has continued to absorb and destroy everything on the island, it’s likely that will be what brings the current Fortnite island to its destruction. Alternatively, we might be wrong about the Chrome being evil, and maybe those it absorbs are taken to a new paradise – “Paradise” is the name of this season, after all. This “paradise” would presumably become the new map for Chapter 4.
Regardless, if you want to know the answer, you’ll need to be playing on December 3.
Written by Ryan Woodrow on behalf of GLHF.
