Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 start date, skins, items and the return of Tilted Towers

We're going forwards and backwards successful clip successful Fortnite arsenic it gears up for the latest OG season, which includes 1 of the astir recognizable locations that the crippled has ever produced.

Fortnite is astir to spell retro each implicit again with Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 launching soon, bringing with it immoderate of the astir iconic features from the game's history.

Fortnite OG has proven erstwhile and for each that the throwbacks it has been launching tin basal connected its ain arsenic a imperishable staple, and adjacent though ire was raised aft Renegade Raider's Item Shop return, immoderate nostalgia bait is hugely profitable for Epic Games. The accomplishment of Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 1 brought with it a immense influx of players acceptable for the genuinely classical acquisition (and a fig of players horrified to find that Small Shield Potions didn’t beryllium successful the game’s archetypal season), and ever since, OG has felt similar an incredibly important portion of Fortnite’s ecosystem. Now, though, it’s clip for change.

Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 is peering astir the corner, and arsenic it looks to bring players backmost to the iconic Tilted Towers POI with Small Shield Potions and Boogie Bombs successful hand, fans are fizzing with excitement to acquisition what galore would see the precise highest of prime for this aboriginal physique of the game. But we person to cognize erstwhile it’s coming truthful we tin beryllium acceptable for it. So, erstwhile is the caller play touching down? Here’s the commencement day for Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2.

Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 commencement date

The Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 commencement day is Friday, January 31. This was confirmed erstwhile we explored the OG Chapter 1 Season 1 extremity date, and has present been shared to Twitter by the authoritative Fortnite account.

The commencement clip of the caller play is inactive unconfirmed, but arsenic the extremity of OG Chapter 1 Season 1 is coming connected Friday, January 31, astatine 7am GMT / 2am EST, and Thursday, January 30, astatine 11pm PST, and Fortnite leaker @ShiinaBR has claimed in a tweet that a caller update is coming connected the aforesaid day, we tin expect that the caller update volition get post-downtime connected Friday, January 31 astatine astir 10am GMT / 5am EST/ 2am PST. Fortnite downtime for update 33.20, the past large update, lasted astir 3 hours, truthful we'd expect thing akin this clip around.

Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 caller cosmetics

The astir caller teaser representation for Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2, shared by Fortnite connected Twitter, features a fewer skins gliding into 1 iconic POI (we’ll get onto that shortly), which are present rumoured to beryllium the OG Battle Pass skins for the caller season. In the foreground is, of course, the Black Knight, 1 of Fortnite’s rarest skins successful history.

It appears to beryllium a caller remixed mentation of the skin, and it is seen dropping into the representation alongside caller versions of the Sparkle Specialist and Cuddle Team Leader skins, truthful possibly these could beryllium the 3 skins making up the caller OG Battle Pass, which seems to beryllium just fixed that the past OG Battle Pass lone featured 2 skins, with 2 antithetic styles each. However they appear, the instrumentality of the Black Knight is inactive a monolithic woody for long-time players (who volition rage astir this if they person the archetypal skin) and caller ones (who volition emotion the accidental to elicit that rage successful the long-time players).

Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 caller items

While thing has been confirmed by Epic Games yet, determination are a fewer items that we cognize for definite arrived successful the archetypal Fortnite Chapter 1 Season 2, and for them not to look would beryllium beauteous odd, truthful we tin accidental with a insignificant level of certainty that they’ll instrumentality successful the OG mode. Most importantly, of course, the play introduced Small Shield Potions (or Minis, arsenic players thin to telephone them), allowing players to apical their Shield up to 50 successful 2 abbreviated 25-tick bursts, which massively changed the value of the stat and helped players to physique their defences acold quicker than before. Truly, we’re astir excited for these to appear.

The full play revealed the pursuing items:

• Small Shield Potion

• Damage Trap

• Snowball Launcher

• Ceiling Zapper

• Damage Trap

• Directional Jump Pad

• Wall Dynamo

• Boogie Bomb

• Suppressed Pistol

• Cozy Campfire

• Chug Jug

• Minigun

• Cupid’s Crossbow

• Impulse Grenade

These items got a heap of alterations implicit the people of the season, with equilibrium changes coming to galore of the collectable items, but this is the full dispersed of items that came to Fortnite successful Chapter 1 Season 2. We tin surely expect them to get successful Fortnite OG Season 1 Chapter 2 arsenic well, unless determination is immoderate grander program for the wider season, and they’ll beryllium drip-fed into the crippled arsenic galore of them were originally.

Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 caller POIs

Okay, let’s speech astir it - Tilted Towers is officially returning successful Fortnite Chapter 1 Season 2, arsenic revealed by the latest cardinal creation from Epic Games. Though immoderate fans are getting bushed of Fortnite making specified a large woody of it, the POI is iconic for a reason, being 1 of the precise archetypal drops that galore players made, truthful to spot it instrumentality successful the discourse of the throwback quality is fantastic.

Here are each of the caller POIs that were introduced successful Fortnite Chapter 1 Season 2, and are expected to marque their instrumentality successful Fortnite OG this season:

• Tilted Towers

• Snobby SHores

• Shifty Shafts

• Junk Junction

• Haunted Hills

Here are the locations that went unnamed and had to beryllium titled by players:

• Yonder Yard

• Motel

• Sports Centre

• Starrt Suburbs Ruins

• Outskirts

The representation changes besides came with a alteration to the biome of Moisty Mire. It’s a batch to get stuck into, but we’re consenting to stake Tilted volition inactive beryllium the hottest driblet connected the map. Some things ne'er change.

That’s everything we cognize astir Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 truthful far, and luckily for us, we don’t person agelong to hold to get stuck into each it has to offer. We’ve seen it each before, but to beryllium honest, that’s benignant of the full point.