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The ultimate crossover season is coming to Fortnite.<\/p>\n
Credit: Epic Games<\/p>\n
The slogan for the upcoming season of Fortnite is quite literally throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks: \u201cBreak the rules, change the game.\u201d <\/p>\n
For a game that has done just about every crossover imaginable, it\u2019s kind of wild to just look at the image at the top of this post and see how big Epic Games is going this time. <\/p>\n
Some of the crossover characters include: Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Crash Bandicoot, Ryu and other Street Fighter characters, Master Chief, Spyro the Dragon, Lara Croft and countless others. Some of the more surprising inclusions are Joker and Morgana from Persona 5, Sora and the KEyblade from Kingdom Hearts and Mega Man. Geralt of Rivia is also making a return to Fortnite land.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the trailer for \u2018Override\u2019, aka Fortnite Chapter 7, Season 4:<\/p>\n
What Time Does Season 3 End And Season 4 Begin?<\/p>\n
Fortnite will start going down for maintenance the evening of Wednesday, August 19, and servers will officially go dark at 11 pm Pacific Time, which is 2 am Eastern Time on Thursday, August 20. Downtime will last around four hours, though this isn\u2019t set in stone and servers could be back online earlier or later than the following times. This is just a rough estimate. Expect the game to be back up and running by Thursday morning one way or another, barring some catastrophe.<\/p>\n
What To Expect In Chapter 7, Season 4 \u2018Override\u2019<\/p>\n
First off, here\u2019s the new Battle Pass:<\/p>\n
Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n
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Credit: Epic Games<\/p>\n
The lineup includes K1TTYW1NS, Phantom, Grace Crowne, Geno, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mali, Wrixel, and Bastian. Phantom and Bastian are both very cool. I also like Grace Crowne and Mali.<\/p>\n
Map Changes:<\/p>\n
The Island has been \u201chacked\u201d and partially rebooted around a giant central Spire. The expected new locations are:<\/p>\n
Green Hill Zone is the most substantial crossover location shown so far, bringing actual Sonic loops, rings and checkerboard terrain to the battle royale map. Calamari Canyon, Frosted Flats and Sinister Strip are reportedly leaving, while the rest of the Chapter 7 map largely should remain roughly unchanged. <\/p>\n
New Gameplay:<\/p>\n
The most interesting additions shown or strongly indicated are:<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be interesting to see what exactly these cartridges do and what kind of modifiers are added to a match, as this could genuinely impact the game in fun (or infuriating) ways.<\/p>\n
The Story So Far<\/p>\n
I admit, I\u2019m behind on my Fortnite lore and don\u2019t pay that much attention to the story beats as this is much more of a casual interest for me these days. But the story leading into Season 4 is basically more Zero Point shenanigans. <\/p>\n
During the August 15 \u201cUnstable\u201d Story Moment, Doctor Slone attempted to stabilize the damaged Zero Point. Geno hacked the stabilizer, overwhelmed Slone\u2019s controls and stole the Zero Point, leaving a game cartridge in its place. The new season\u2019s premise is to override Geno\u2019s system and take back the Island. But to what end? We\u2019ll all still be stuck on the island forever, killing one another like some crazed Gilligan\u2019s Island parody. (Now there\u2019s a crossover for you, Epic Games).<\/p>\n
Get your challenges done fast, young padawans. Fortnite will be down in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ultimate crossover season is coming to Fortnite. Credit: Epic Games The slogan for the upcoming season of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1158282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[15198,2747,314808,314804,314810,314806,314807,314803,314805,314809,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1158281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-fortnite-battle-pass","tag-fortnite-chapter-7-season-4","tag-fortnite-gaming-legends","tag-fortnite-launch-time","tag-fortnite-new-season","tag-fortnite-override","tag-fortnite-server-downtime","tag-fortnite-sonic-crossover","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117124660131171993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}