Is the Fortnite old map coming back? According to some leaks at the moment it could be a Fortnite Chapter 1 map returning in place of FN C4 Season 5.
The latest season of Fortnite has had quite a few twists and turns. It all started with heists, and now we’re fighting off Vampires with a crazy number of C4 S4 Mythics kicking around. According to some leaks though, something even more wild might be planned for the next few weeks of Battle Royale. Once we’re done with Chapter 4 Season 4, we might be heading back to the Fortnite old map for a celebration of Chapter 1.
The lore in Fortnite has reached a bit of a weird point during Fortnitemares 2023. On top of the normal Halloween-relate developments, the recent updates and NPC dialogue have pushed the game into a territory that’s weird even for the Fortnite story. The heists are now escalating to stealing a time machine. According to some prominent Fortnite leakers, that time machine is going to play a pivotal role in the Fortnite old map coming back.
More recently, Audio files have been discovered which might completely confirm the Fortnite C1 map returning!
With a bit of a mystery over how the half-season at the end of chapter 4 is going to go, these new leaks have blown Epic’s “big plans” for the winter that they’ve been discussing wide open. This is what we’ve learnt and what it looks like the game plan is the Fortnite old map coming back.
Fortnite Chapter 1 Map Returning
Chapter 1 of Fortnite was a special time for a lot of players. It was when a lot of players first discovered and fell in love with the game. On top of that, it’s when we got most of the Fortnite live events and the game really established itself as more than just a Battle Royale. It goes without saying that this early map for the game is where a lot of players’ nostalgia for the title is currently located. It looks like Epic’s current plans involve mining that nostalgia.
According to some Fortnite leaks, we could see the Fortnite old map coming back for the next part of the game’s run. It also hinges on something Epic has been teasing, a time machine.
Without going into the overly convoluted (and often nonsensical) plotline of Fortnite, there is currently a time machine somewhere in the world of the Battle Royale. Epic are making teasers about the original map, and leakers are saying this time machine will malfunction and take us back to a specific date in Fortnite Chapter 1.
One of the more reliable leakers in the game has recently gotten behind the rumour too. They say that the Fortnite Chapter 1 map will return very soon. It’ll replace the current Chapter 4 map or combine with it to make the current locale for Battle Royale games. It’s coming back as the current island, not a side mode or creative experience.
Fortnite Chapter 1 Map Returning for C4 S5
A big mystery in Fortnite leaks recently has been the end of Chapter 4 Season 4. Leakers have found the end date of this season to be a bit too soon to coincide with the Chapter 5 start date. However, it’s also too late to allow for a full season and new Battle Pass to take place too. So, what was planned for the potential C4 S5? For a while, leakers have thought this would be a mini season with a smaller Battle Pass and truncated month-long runtime. It could have involved the upcoming Lego collab, or something else. It now looks like we know what that something else will be.
The current timeline according to leakers on the Fortnite old map coming back, is that the time machine breaks at the end of C4 S4. This sends the entire player base to the date that’s showing up on it. We’ll arrive in Fortnite Season 5, Chapter 1. Complete with the OG Loot pool and the exact map we had back then.
We’ll then apparently move forward at a faster speed, progressing up until the end of Chapter 1. This will likely mean a few days or a week with each season for Chapter 1, giving everyone a taste of the OG Fortnite map and its many changes over its original release. Once we reach that iconic Black Hole event, the game will again go offline. It’ll come back online with Fortnite Chapter 5, a big leap forward for the game after we’ve seen the Fortnite Chapter 1 map returning.
What Season of the Fortnite Old Map Will It Be?
According to leakers at the moment, the Fortnite old map coming back will start in Season 5. However, some leakers think this will only be half of the map, with C4 and C1 having their maps combined. Different biomes and areas from across Season 1 will rift in over the course of the mini-season. While Chapter 1 Season 5 looks to be the starting point, it won’t be the endpoint.
We’ll see POIs and areas from across all seasons of Fortnite returning in this event. We’ll likely get a short amount of time to play with each of them before seeing more of the OG Fortnite map.
Are the Old Weapons and Guns Returning?
Getting the old map back is definitely a nostalgia move, but what about the OG guns? According to leakers, these will also be coming back with the old map. We’ll get the original guns, their original names, mechanics, and even models in the game. This might be a bit weird for weapons that have been refined a lot since Chapter 1, but it’ll help make the entire throwback experience that bit more immersive.
Differences Between Fortnite Old Map Coming Back and Creative
The elephant in the room with the Fortnite old map coming back might be UnrealFN. The launch of the greater editor tool for separate game modes allowed players to push things much further. One of the first really impressive UnrealFN maps released was the OG Fortnite map. It was playable as a full Battle Royale, a huge achievement for the editor tool for a game like Fortnite.
That’s been an active game mode in the time since, so what makes the Fortnite Chapter 1 map returning different? There are a few key things. The first is no memory limitation, Epic can obviously go a lot further with their main Battle Royale than content creators can. Then there’s Fortnite on different platforms getting lumped in together for creative maps. Plus, the lack of FN Ranked mode, and general lack of polish compared to Epic’s official experiences.
The fan-made recreation of the Fortnite OG map is definitely cool, but it doesn’t really compare to Epic revisiting the first Chapter for something new. The Fortnite old map coming back is bound to be a much bigger experience than what we’ve seen in creative so far.
That’s what we know about the Fortnite Chapter 1 map making a return next season. While we don’t exactly know for sure just yet, a mixture of Fortnite leaks and Epic directly teasing it with the time machine in the new Fortnite vault makes it pretty likely that’s what we’re going to get. Hopefully, this return to Chapter 1 can prove a fresher experience for payers beyond just nostalgia.
