Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2: Start Date, And All Leaks And Teases So FarThe first season of Fortnite Chapter 7 is the game's longest in six years, but the end is finally in sight, and it promises to bring some big changes. And with just days left to go before we start Season 2, dubbed Showdown, Epic Games has begun dropping real teasers, and there are plenty of leaks to go with them. Let's go over what we've got so far. When does Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 start? While Season 2 was originally scheduled for the beginning of March, the new season launch was recently delayed by two weeks and will now start on Thursday, March 19. Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 teaser The first teaser Epic dropped wasn't much, just a little calendar detailing a series of little story events. We don't know what exactly will happen on the upcoming dates listed in the teaser, but they're all going to be part of the ramp-up to Season 2, culminating in a "final wave" of something that begins on March 14 and continues during the last week of the season. So far, these have been live mini-events during Battle Royale, like the big orb hovering over the center of the map disappearing into a rift to start the Power Hour on March 7. In the second teaser for Season 2 , we learn that we'll be on a mission to save The Foundation, the leader of the Seven, who's been missing since he and Jonesy jumped into the Zero Point at the end of Chapter 3 Season 2. The new teaser shows him frozen in ice (alongside a new Captain America, for some reason), apparently imprisoned by the Ice King. In story terms, this makes Season 2 a remix of the original Chapter 1 Season 7, during which the Ice King held The Prisoner the same way--though it's worth pointing out that we see The Prisoner once again frozen in ice in the teaser. So we'll probably see The Foundation thaw out during the season at some point, since the plot of the season is about the Showdown between The Foundation and the Ice King. When the character was originally introduced to Fortnite, the Foundation was voiced by and featured the likeness of Dwayne Johnson. Will The Rock be returning to Fortnite, or will we be getting a new version of the Foundation played by somebody else? The Fortnite Twitter posted a picture of a rock on March 10, which may or may not be related to this topic. (It could actually have something to do with Save the World instead.) Will Season 1 end with a live event? It's starting to look like that "Final Wave" that starts on Saturday the 14th will usher in the season's endgame with some sort of live situation. Epic has already begun casually dropping occasionally story moments during Battle Royale matches, like the Dark Voyager orb hovering over the island rifting out of town on March 6, and then returning the next day. Big changes are coming in Season 2 Producer Ted Timmins recently spent an afternoon chatting with fans on Twitter, and he made a lot of cryptic comments about what to expect from the upcoming season . Such as: A mostly refreshed loot pool New movement items, including one your who squad can use together Season 2 will "dial up the loony tunes" with its gameplay updates There will be a "new-old meta loot spot" on the map that activates mid-game Teaser word: "bearer" Some folks may make this sound like a pile of dramatic, course-correcting changes, but modern Fortnite changes most of the loot pool and adds new movement items every season anyway--these changes may be the normal kind of big. The significant details in that list, then, are the group movement item, which could be amazing, and the mid-game "new-old meta loot spot," which sounds like a revamped version of the old loot island idea, or the mod bench vaults that were on the map during Chapter 5. More recently, we got a cryptic tease from leaker Shiina, which claims players will be able to challenge each other as a "rival." This'll likely will work similar to the old bounty system, where both players were given a radius indicator on their maps showing where they were. Shiina also said we'll be able to drive the battle bus--presumably this'll be the new season's drop gimmick, a la surfing in Season 1. And for those who feel that Season 1 has been going on for way too long, we've got good news: Season 2 is slated to run for about 80 days , or a month shorter than Season 1. The currently scheduled end date is June 6, a Saturday, which implies there will be a major live event that day Chapter 7 Season 2 battle pass and collabs Timmins' unnecessary reference to "loony tunes" above may not just be some incidental description of the gameplay. If leakers are to be believed, Fortnite already has a Looney Tunes collaboration in the works that is allegedly close to release . Between the repeated Looney Tunes leaks and Timmins' specific choice of words to describe the new season, it appears like Looney Tunes is poised to take over the battle pass--and, indeed, leakers are starting to claim that Bugs Bunny will be the one , with Daffy Duck and Lola Bunny coming to the shop. An Overwatch collaboration has also been teased by three separate leakers, who've claimed it will include skins for Tracer, D.Va, Genji, and Mercy. One of the leakers even claims an Overwatch character will be on the Season 2 battle pass. And even though Captain America was frozen in ice in the teaser trailer for Season 2, he's reportedly not going to be part of the battle pass . We've also been getting rumors all over about a wave of Toy Story cosmetics, which would include skins for Woody, Buzz, and Zurg , as well as the Pizza Planet delivery truck skin, and an unknown sidekick. The curious case of AdiraFNInfo Adira was a new leaker whose star had been rising fast in 2026 after they correctly leaked the 28 Years Later, Ed Edd N Eddy, Solo Leveling, The Office, Honkai Star Rail, and The Regular Show collabs, as well as the second wave of KPOP Demon Hunters, the Magik and Luna Snow Marvel skins, and the Fortnite-original Esme and Hattie Chirps skins, and they were also one of the leakers of the Overwatch collab mentioned above. It was a mind-blowingly good track record for somebody so new to the leaker scene. Adira's run lasted just a month and a half before they completely disappeared, which was pretty unusual for a Fortnite leaker. But what happened next was even more surprising: Epic Games claimed in a lawsuit that Adira was actually one of its contractors , named Hayden Cohen, who broke a non-disclosure agreement to leak all that stuff. So Adira won't be dropping any more leaks ever again, but before they disappeared they offered several more leaks that still haven't been officially revealed yet. Given the lawsuit, we can probably consider Adira to be a trusted source--though it's also possible that one or more of these are false leaks planted by Epic in an attempt to track down the source of these leaks. Whatever the case may be, here are the remaining collabs Adira said were on the way: Minecraft Peak Ben 10 Kingdom Hearts Game of Thrones Masters of the Universe None of these have yet been corroborated by other leakers. Why Season 2 was delayed When the upcoming season was pushed back a couple weeks, no official explanation was given for the change. But the first season of Chapter 7 has been plagued by major technical problems since the South Park event started at the beginning of January--problems that seemed to get worse or manifest in new ways with each update since then. This is speculation, but our best guess is that the delay is the result of those bugs, with Epic giving itself some extra time to get everything in shape before Season 2 starts. A two-week delay is probably preferable to a botched season launch, I'd think. V-Bucks are about to cost way more Epic Games is increasing the cost of V-Bucks again, making the currency more expensive than it's ever been, and in the process it's also cutting the amount of V-Bucks included in the battle pass from 1,500 to 800, and the amount you receive each month from Fortnite Crew from 1,000 to 800. There's even more to it than that, because it's a weirdly complex set of interconnected changes--you can read my more in-depth run-down of the whole thing here .
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