Update: Fortnite: Battle Royale's Season 10 server downtime has finished and the new update is now live. There's plenty new in the battle royale game this season, so be sure to check out the full Fortnite Season 10 patch notes, which include details of the new Brute mech vehicle. One major difference of note involves how challenges work. Daily challenges are gone, and weekly challenges are now accessible only to Battle Pass owners, although there are new missions in place of the daily challenges that can even be accessed by free players. However, those can only be accessed for a week before they disappear.
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There's also Rift Zones, which have been created by the Zero Point Explosion. "Locations once thought to be lost are beginning to appear, but they aren’t the same as they once were. Drop in and explore to discover what mysterious gameplay changes they have in store."
Ahead of the World Cup Finals, Epic dropped the first teaser image for Season 10, confirming the new season will start on August 1 just after the game's Birthday Event, which offers its own special rewards and challenges. Items like birthday cakes and presents will also be scattered around the map, offering health/shield regen and special loot drops.
A precise time for the new season to start has not been shared, but we do know when downtime will begin. The game's servers will be taken offline at 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET / 9 AM BST / 6 PM AET in preparation for Season 10 to begin. We can likely expect them to come back online with the update within a few hours' time.
The Zero Point is exploding. Get ready for #SeasonX dropping 8.1.2019. pic.twitter.com/11t14SC1eI
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 31, 2019
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 31, 2019
Each season of Fortnite typically revolves around a loose theme, and it appears Season 10's will have something to do with time, based on the first few teaser images Epic has shared in the lead up to the new season. The first teaser has the caption "Think Back" and features an image of Dusty Depot, which was destroyed by a meteor and became Dusty Divot all the way back in Season 4. The second teaser, meanwhile, is captioned "Look Forward" and shows off what looks to be a new mech suit. Notably, it features two symbols on either side of it, the left of which matches that of The Visitor, a skin available during Season 4.
A third teaser features two possible new Season 10 skins. One of these strongly resembles the old Drift skin, albeit with some tweaks. We could be getting some sort of modified version of that skin, which would fit in with the teaser's accompanying text, "twist time."
The fourth and likely final teaser is the video you see above, which shows the orb (known as Zero Point) that's been hovering over Loot Lake exploding. What the ramifications of that will be remain unclear, but you can expect this to tie into whatever map changes and theme Season 10 features.
Look Forward. 8.1.2019 pic.twitter.com/NSKq5diQrN
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 29, 2019
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 30, 2019
Season 9 is ongoing, and as usual a big world event has started to set the stage for things to come. This time it was a giant battle pitting a mechanized bear against a huge monster that took place on Saturday, July 20. The robot was apparently built to fend off the monster, and when it showed up the mech automatically activated. The mech powered up by breaking into the Loot Lake vault and taking a powerful orb, then drew a giant sword to defeat the monster and left the monster's body and the sword behind.
What all this could mean for Season 10 is still mysterious, however. The themes for the seasonal changeovers are often surprising, so the next season could have nothing to do with mechs, monsters, or giant swords at all. Based on past seasonal events, this stage-setting probably created conditions for some unexpected consequences that will factor into the next big map change