Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2: Start Date, Theme, Battle Pass, Leaks, And Rumors
We are now just days away from the start of Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2, and the people are getting restless–we’re very ready to move on from sword season at this point. Fortunately, Season 2 already looks like a pretty massive change of pace from Season 1, as we say goodbye to all the cool Japanese ghosts and say hello to new criminal endeavors. Here’s everything we know so far about what to expect from Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2. [Update: Servers are back online, and the new season has begun. You can see everything new in Fortnite Season 2 in our roundup, as well as all the new weapons, map changes, and what’s in the battle pass.]
When does Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 begin?
Season 1 is currently scheduled to come to a close on February 21 at 11 PM PT/ 2 AM ET. That would mean that Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 should begin a few hours later on the morning of Friday, February 21.
Will Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1 have a live finale event?
Fortnite held its end-of-season live event on Saturday, February 15, and it saw the NPC Daigo become kaiju-sized and have a huge fight against loot island boss Shogun X. The battle left a big, golden, glowy thing up in the mount above Warrior’s Watch that will remain until the season ends.

Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 trailer
Epic has dropped a proper gameplay trailer for the new season, showing off the battle pass lineup and new Crime City location, as well as the new heist gameplay, complete with drivable security vans. Check it out.
Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 battle pass and season theme
Chapter 6 Season 2 will be another heist season, as we can see in the trailer above. Though this time it seems like we’ll also be heisting on the move rather than just breaking into more vaults–we’ve got big armored security vans out there, and the train has an armored car and turrets now.
Fortnite has had a lot of heist seasons, including two different ones in Chapter 4. Since Chapter 6 already echoes Chapter 4 with the feudal theme and a throwback version of the Japan biome from that map–Seaport City is basically proto-Mega City in terms of its layout and structure, and the surrounding areas are very similar–the return of a prominent Chapter 4 theme isn’t too shocking.
Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein has the seasonal tradition of teasing each upcoming season with a single word--his word for Season 12 is "pickled." We don't know what all that terms entails, but it likely involves the previously mentioned pickle man.
Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 weapons and gameplay changes
As with every new season of Fortnite battle royale, we're getting a big new slate of weapons, devices and seasonal gimmicks, and they were on full display in the trailer above. Here's just some of the new toys we'll have to play with in Season 2.
- Armored security vans
- Meltanite (for breaking into armored security vans and vaults)
- sticky grenade launcher
- electrified baseball bat
- rocket drill
- train turrets
- Sub-Zero's ice mythic
- a shotgun you can dual-wield
Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 potential collabs
The season trailer above includes a couple unannounced collaborations--for new car skins. In one shot we can see both a Dodge Ram pickup truck, and a 1960s Ford Mustang. These will likely be sold in the shop, but it's been long enough since we had a car on the battle pass (Chapter 5 Season 1) that one of them could be included.
It's been rumored for a hot minute that both Dominic Toretto and Han Lue from Fast & Furious will receive skins soon, and their cars--Dom's Dodge Charger and Han's Mazda RX-7--will finally be ported from Rocket League.
Meanwhile, a new crime-themed season set on a Japan-themed island is apparently the right time for a collaboration with the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series of video games, which has a new spinoff title releasing the same day Season 2 starts. Leaks say the first wave of Yakuza cosmetics will feature Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima skins.
But there are some rumored collaborations coming up that may fall into Season 2. In particular, there have been reports of cosmetics based on James Cameron's Avatar. These will likely come to the shop, but you never know.
Meanwhile, Fortnite has been advertising heavily during WWE events lately, including Monday Night RAW in January, Royal Rumble on February 1, and also the upcoming Elimination Chamber in March. But none of the existing WWE skins have even appeared in the item shop in seven months and counting, so we're overdue for some wrestling content in Fortnite.
Other rumors and leaks for Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2
One particularly interesting change that Epic made with Chapter 6 was to allow players to use their Festival guitars and other instruments as pickaxes and back blings, dramatically increasing the hypothetical usefulness of those cosmetics--if you like hitting things with guitars, anyway. Now, reportedly, Epic is looking at doing something similar with kicks by turning the shoes that certain skins are wearing into kicks--meaning, for example, that buying the Green Roots Billie skin would also grant you her green and black Air Force 1 Mids as kicks to use on any skin.
Stick around as we'll be updating this roundup of Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 news, rumors, and leaks frequently as we approach the start date.
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