An enormous gameplay leak presents a glimpse into the subsequent period of Fortnite. Fortnite’s in style battle royale mode is shifting to a brand new map primarily based in america.
Beforehand, an official trace from Epic Video games indicated Hollywood-based coordinates, whereas one other leak prompt the sport would characteristic a Las Vegas-style location (in addition to a Quentin Tarantino crossover). And now, due to leaked footage from a preview occasion attended by media and influencers, the American setting of Chapter 7 has been confirmed.
Footage at the moment circulating broadly on social media exhibits an arid space stuffed with palm bushes. The sport’s map within the distance references an space named Sandy Strip. Billboards title the primary season of Chapter 7 as “Pacific Break.”
Chapter 7 info was leaked from the creator occasion π
– sizzling air balloon
– Pushed Reboot Van
– Solo VS Bot mode
– Carry Palooza occasion that creates a carry
– Gameplay UI updates
– Battle Move options Marty McFly and his bride pic.twitter.com/l9lBrLZMIzβ China (@ChinaBR) November 20, 2025
Different modifications seen within the footage seem to incorporate a drivable Reboot Van and a brand new solo vs. bots mode possibility (although it is unclear if this was supplied only for the preview occasion).
Fortnite has adopted up on the leak and launched its personal official model of Chapter 7. A top-down view of the sport’s new battle royale map, exhibiting a extra city space with large metropolis streets and homes with yard swimming pools. (The highest-down view right here appears to be like a bit like GTA 1, proper?)
Take a primary take a look at the upcoming battlefield.
Preparation = Victory pic.twitter.com/4KO1whuy80β Fortnite (@Fortnite) November 20, 2025
Final night time, Fortnite additionally launched footage of Quentin Tarantino, who appeared on the aforementioned occasion, standing subsequent to Fortnite’s model of Kill Invoice’s notorious Pussy Wagon automobile. Right here, the phrase “cat” is changed with a photograph of Meowskles, a swollen cat in style with followers of the sport. In the meantime, leaked footage from the occasion exhibits a brand new in-game pores and skin for Uma Thurman’s Kill Invoice character, The Bride. Oh, and Marty McFly from Again to the Future.
Fortnite sometimes works on large annual map modifications for a couple of 12 months prematurely, and it is enjoyable to consider the concept Chapter 7’s American-inspired setting was deliberate 12 months in the past with the hope that different large video games with American-inspired settings would launch on the identical time.
That individual. The one one. #Quentin Tarantino #Fortnite Seven pic.twitter.com/IYxD8w4Y62
β Fortnite (@Fortnite) November 20, 2025
After all, GTA 6 has now been delayed twice. However as lately as Might of this 12 months, Rockstar was nonetheless saying the sport could be launched this week, again when Epic Video games has been launching a brand new chapter of Fortnite in recent times.
This 12 months, Fortnite is internet hosting an enormous Chapter 6 Finale occasion on Saturday, November twenty ninth. Chapter 7 will start shortly thereafter, however a interval of downtime is predicted. The teaser trailer for that in-game occasion, which was formally launched final night time, featured Fortnite’s plans for Prepared Participant One and Avengers: Endgame in full swing whereas tying up story threads from the previous few years.
For the previous few weeks, Fortnite’s OG mode’s secret bunker has been flashing messages in Morse code, together with “Zero Hour” and “Titans,” which we now know are the names of upcoming occasions. Followers who noticed that teaser trailer are questioning if “Titans” refers back to the Darkish Presence, the sport’s present primary antagonist, the towering demonic beings who rule the Spirit Realm in Chapter 6, in addition to the forces at the moment going through him.
Within the upcoming battle, it appears to be like like gamers shall be preventing alongside a sequence of different looming figures, together with a resurrected Godzilla and King Kong, in addition to a newly enlarged Homer Simpson. Are there clues to an extended story right here too? Recall Chapter 5 of Fortnite, which launched the present period of storytelling centered on the blue-haired hero, Hope. You can too hyperlink the mysterious large hand that erupted from the bottom holding Pandora’s Field.
Are these all Titans? And the way will Fortnite deliver all this (plus Star Wars’ X-Wing, Uma Thurman, and Marty McFly) collectively because it strikes to its new US-based dwelling? It is simply over per week till we discover out.
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