Fortnite OG 2: Start Date, Battle Pass, Leaks, And Rumors

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 is currently slated to wrap up late in the evening on Thursday, November 1 in the US. If all goes well, the game will go down for maintenance for several hours, and the new OG season will start during the morning of November 2.

This new version of Fortnite OG is expected to cover the first several seasons of Chapter 2, which gradually built up to the big Marvel incursion in Season 4 back in 2020. Notably, Season 2 was the one that introduced Midas, and Season 3 was when the island flooded. Fortunately, this period was also when they added boats, and since boats have been missing for the entirety of Chapter 5, those will be a welcome sight should they return.

The state of the island will rapidly change over the course of the month, reflecting aspects of the island’s evolution over that year. And then, at the end of November, OG 2 will wrap up with a live event that will usher in Chapter 6. Maybe this time it won’t completely reset the plot.

Last year’s OG pass was half the length of a normal battle pass, with four skins that were each hybrids of multiple existing skins from that era, and one set of super styles. We should expect something similar this time, too–and a new Midas-related skin seems very possible since he’s a fan-favorite character.

Other popular characters that popped up during this era include Skye, Meowscles, TNTina, Jellie, Guff, the customizable Gear Specialist Maya, Penny, Jules, Kit, Axo, and that hot dog man. While Guff is probably not a factor since he’s getting a new skin for Fortnitemares, any of those others are a good candidate for a new remix or mashup skin in the OG 2 Pass.

Way back in the spring, a leaked roadmap for the remainder of 2024 emerged from the game’s hyperactive leaking community, and it proved to be largely true. And there’s only one item left from that roadmap that hasn’t happened yet: Fortnite Festival Season 6, headlined by Snoop Dogg. The new season of Festival will launch the same day as OG 2 does, and so the first collab of this throwback season will be the OGest OG to ever join the Fortnite ranks.

This pairing may not just be a thematic one–OG 2 will reportedly add a low-rider hydraulics vehicle mod that will allow you to make the car jump. As Festival headliner, Snoop will likely get a skin in the Festival Pass, as well as one in the item shop. Last year’s OG Pass did not include any collab skins, so that may again be the case here, but it seems Festival will bring a special crossover of its own.

We’ll continue updating this story as we learn more about Fortnite OG 2.