With Fortnite OG current as its personal everlasting mode now, we aren’t anticipating one other throwback mini-season within the vein of final 12 months’s Chapter 2 Remix or the unique OG season the 12 months earlier than. However with the upcoming Chapter 6 Season 4 beginning on August 8, we’re just about assured a brand new mini-season in November, as a result of Fortnite has by no means had a four-month season on objective earlier than. As an alternative, the recent rumor for the reason that starting of Might is that we’ll be getting one other collaboration mini-season like Star Wars season in Might, this time with The Simpsons taking center stage.
When you think about Epic’s cozy relationship with Disney, plus its lengthy historical past of Fox Animation collabs–including three cartoon dads Fortnite dropped for Father’s Day this previous June–this rumor sounds fairly believable. Certainly, there’s been practically no skepticism about it in any respect. November remains to be an extended methods away, although, and loads can occur between from time to time. Whereas we wait, let’s examine what precisely the rumor mill has mentioned about this one.
When would the Simpsons mini-season begin?
Based on next season’s update schedule, Chapter 6 Season 4 ought to finish on Saturday, November 1, which signifies it will have a dwell finale occasion to wrap issues up in the course of the day. If issues work the way in which they did after the Dying Star Sabotage occasion in June, the brand new mini-season would start that very same night after 4-7 hours of upkeep. In any other case, it will begin the following morning, on November 2.
Is the Simpsons mini-season formally confirmed?
In no way. Each bit of information in regards to the purported Simpsons season comes from leakers and dataminers, and it has all simply been written descriptions–there’s been no leaked artwork or something tangible that may function some degree of affirmation. There may be, nonetheless, one poster in Utopia City that could possibly be hinting at a Simpsons collab, however that is not affirmation of any kind of takeover.
Contemplating the way in which Epic sometimes likes to carry again on selling a brand new season till the present one is sort of over, we have got some time earlier than Epic will say something about it in any respect. However distinguished leakers have been harping on it so often that a variety of of us have taken it as learn {that a} Simpsons season is coming. However till some actual teasers begin popping up, November’s Simpsons mini-season stays an unconfirmed rumor.
What would a Simpsons mini-season entail?
The rumors to date are obscure and complicated, and so it is a bit tough to sift by way of all of it proper now. The complete image will not be even remotely clear simply but. Preserve that in thoughts as we lay out the fractured particulars that we presently have.
Probably the most shocking element among the many rumors up to now is that the Simpsons may have a complete map modeled after the Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield, however the declare is that will probably be the size of a Reload map and support only 40 players. It isn’t out of the query that the primary Battle Royale mode may go small for this because it solely lasts a month–let’s not neglect that Epic made everybody play Zero Construct for 2 weeks after it was launched in early 2022. However there’s additionally one other pretty apparent risk value contemplating: that the Springfield map truly will be for Reload, relatively than BR.
Contemplating Reload is Fortnite’s clear no. 2 mode at this level, and it has no battle cross, it would not be shocking if Epic seemed for brand new methods to encourage of us to play it. Plus, it simply bought a Squid Sport-themed map added to its rotation in June, so there’s precedent. Alternatively, this a part of the rumor could possibly be utterly flawed. Blortzen, the leaker who first unfold the rumor in regards to the Simpsons season, advised in June that the rumor a few small map was actually about Blitz Royale, which was introduced a pair weeks in any case these Simpsons rumors have been unfold round.
Past that, the whole lot else we have heard makes this rumored Simpsons season appears like it’ll embody many of the similar stuff different mini-seasons have–a small battle cross, accompanying store skins, and weekly adjustments to the map. However since we’ve not heard any vital new particulars for the reason that starting of June, it is nonetheless onerous to gauge what precisely Simpsons season will appear to be.