Fortnite Remix: The Prelude and Chapter 2 start times: When does downtime begin?

Fortnite is getting acceptable to big a unrecorded event successful the lead-up to the commencement of its adjacent season.

Prelude: The Remix volition erstwhile again spot players temporarily shirking their Battle Royale duties to collectively instrumentality portion successful a caller enactment oregon experience. In the past, players person been treated to a virtual performance starring a elephantine Travis Scott and banded unneurotic to destruct an alien mothership.

This clip around, Epic Games is teasing a musical nostalgia-fest, which should service arsenic a precursor for the caller season, rumoured to beryllium Chapter 2: Remix. 

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the looming updates, including the inevitable downtime that volition render the crippled unplayable.

Fortnite’s Remix: The Prelude unrecorded lawsuit starts connected Friday, November 1 astatine 10.30 p.m. successful the UK (3.30 p.m. PDT / 6.30 p.m. EDT). 

Cue younger players begging their parents to fto them enactment up past their bedtimes – oregon sneaking their phones nether the covers.

A countdown is presently ticking down to the festivities successful the game’s lobby and in-game astatine Restored Reels connected the Fortnite Island.

Epic typically disables matchmaking for regular crippled modes up of a unrecorded event, with players allowed to articulation it astir 30 minutes earlier the authoritative commencement time. 

In the lawsuit of Remix: The Prelude, that means you should beryllium capable to leap into the enactment astatine 6pm successful the UK and commencement smashing those emotes with your chap players.

More downtime usually follows aft an event, with Epic taking the full crippled offline for respective hours truthful it tin instrumentality the caller seasonal update.

Fortnite Chapter 2: Remix should past footwear disconnected successful the aboriginal greeting connected Saturday, November 2. 

Based connected the commencement times of past seasons, we would expect it to commence astatine astir 7am successful the UK, though downtime for updates tin vary.

While it has Chapter 2 successful the title, the caller play mightiness not conscionable absorption connected that era. As usual, the representation whitethorn acquisition changes, bringing backmost aged locations specified arsenic Craggy Cliffs, Dirty Docks, and Frenzy Farm.

For its part, Epic has released a bid of clips teasing the instrumentality of past characters including 8-Ball, TNTina, Midas Meowscles, pistillate Guff and a caller pistillate Chaos Agent, which are apt to beryllium successful the Chapter 2 conflict pass. 

Elsewhere, Fortnite Festival could diagnostic Snoop Dogg arsenic its play 6 headliner. Epic, who could besides popular up during the Prelude (or possibly it volition beryllium Marshmello, who hosted Fortnite’s archetypal unrecorded lawsuit successful 2019).  

Epic has besides revealed that Reload Solos are dropping astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Fortnite Remix connected November 2. As a result, players volition yet beryllium capable to spell it unsocial successful the much compact competitory mode, starting with 1 other respawn and picking up much with each elimination (with a max of 3 respawns).