{"id":2463,"date":"2020-01-24T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-release-date"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:29:46","slug":"fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 gets official release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{46c5f078-7344-45fc-b0a8-3089f6975be9}{89}\" paraid=\"1955408064\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">After developer Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/fortnite-chapter-2-season-one-extended-by-epic-games\">previously extended<\/a> the first season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> Chapter 2 until February, we now have an official start date for season two.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8fec5c60-a99b-4b16-b749-aea24e42a120}{118}\" paraid=\"1070382310\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/fortnite\/en-US\/news\/new-fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>, Epic Games announced Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 will launch Thursday 20th&nbsp;February.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{62352802-f2a7-4e70-a11b-fe6211ce4a84}{243}\" paraid=\"304182358\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">But what was the reason behind the delay? The post explains Fortnite will move to Unreal Engine&rsquo;s Chaos physics engine, which will start from the 11.50 update released in early February.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{4f4ed6bd-60dc-44a0-a7da-8490d2ff1dab}{68}\" paraid=\"539237513\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">It&rsquo;s a pretty sizeable task which should see Fortnite undergo a significant physics upgrade, with Epic stating there may be &ldquo;some bumps&rdquo; as it&rsquo;s gradually rolled out.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{4f4ed6bd-60dc-44a0-a7da-8490d2ff1dab}{68}\" paraid=\"539237513\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fortnite Chapter 2\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/vaOFP_ZCp8zupcx_nV4BS0OWJ6WgL482mS6Y5cCAiik\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL2ZvcnRuaXRlX2NoYXB0ZXJfMi5qcGc\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 has a release date (Picture: Epic Games)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{cb7fd2fa-0e5d-45a2-a158-43c8b4c51736}{223}\" paraid=\"1756762423\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">They also teased what to expect before the first season of Chapter 2 ends, saying to expect additional Overtime Challenges and a new two-week event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{a9280110-9752-402f-a483-a6b5757da50c}{208}\" paraid=\"1751034794\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The most exciting part of this is how significant the changes will be from a new engine, with Epic Games potentially gearing up Fortnite for the arrival of the next-generation consoles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{28e570ff-7206-44e6-a65c-c879ace7e570}{119}\" paraid=\"254757846\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Fortnite Chapter 2 began in October last year, revealing an overhauled map after a black hole swallowed up the original &ndash; making the game unplayable for a few days.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{28e570ff-7206-44e6-a65c-c879ace7e570}{119}\" paraid=\"254757846\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 will arrive Thursday 20th February.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After developer Epic Games previously extended the first season of Fortnite Chapter 2 until February, we now have an official start date for season two.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortnite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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