Ten Days Until ‘Fortnite’ Chapter 2, Season 2, Zero Clues In Leaks Or In-Game

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Barring any more last minute delays, Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 2, or technically Fortnite season 12, will be here on February 20, just 10 days for now.

But unlike past seasons, the community has absolutely zero clues about what’s coming next.

This is extremely unusual for a game that since season 2-3 has telegraphed at least some sort of major change coming to the game through in-game events, whether that’s a meteor drifting down the earth, a Cube rolling toward a lake, a monster leaving footprints around or a volcano about to erupt.

Fortnite Chapter 2 season 1 has nothing. Absolutely nothing. There have been no “plot developments” this season at all. Loading screens show a good guy group facing off against a bad guy group, all made up of game skins, but none of this has translated on the map itself. Nothing on the map has changed all season except for a few crashed TIE fighters for the Star Wars event and then accumulating and melting snow over the holidays. This is pretty unprecedented, given the last few years.

But it’s not just what’s happening in-game, it’s what’s happening out of it. Usually leakers manage to get their hands on some sort of information about what’s coming. Sometimes that means datamining event files, though all the usual suspects have turned up nothing even this close to season 2’s launch. Other times this means more serious leaks with people breaking NDAs. We thought we had one such leak when blurry footage emerged on 4chan seeming to show Steamy Stacks blowing up. But that was quickly proven to be an elaborate fake when the author confessed and showed exactly how they photoshopped it all.

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So that leaves us with…nothing.

The only major change that some players are holding out hope for that may be getting telegraphed is that perhaps in Season 2, Epic is going to make greater use of the new chaos physics system that they’ve just converted over to last week. Right now you can barely see or feel its presence in the game, but players are wondering if Epic is waiting for the season changeover to make larger adjustments and alter things like building or destruction, which have not noticeably changed at all.

Epic found a formula that worked for it, build hype by teasing an in-game event all season long with things escalating into one final, must-see moment that leads into the next season. They did this over and over and arguably one of their best was the “map deletion” event that led into Chapter 2.

And then, nothing. Four months of barely any updates, zero map changes or story developments. Fortnite’s longest season ever, and with just ten days left, the game feels practically identical to how it was back in October when this endless season launched.

I don’t know what’s coming. Presumably something has to change, but Epic is offering zero clues, and in turn, generating zero hype.

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