<P> Fortnite Battle Royale has created a larger loose narrative that is exhibited through changes in the game map, which generally correlated to the start and end of the in - game season . For example, in the lead up to the fourth season which started in May 2018, players saw a number of shooting stars cross the skies, followed by a giant comet that neared the ground; upon the start of season four, the comet had hit one of the locations on the map, leaving a giant crater, among other changes . This tied into several new cosmetic skins related to superheroes and super-villains that were available that month . Epic has the ability to create custom events that occur across all game servers simultaneously as well; the first example of such was a countdown leading to a giant rocket's launch in June 2018 which, in the aftermath, left cracks in the skies that have grown since that event . </P> <P> The game initially launched without any seasonable schedule, but starting with the release of Season 2 in December 2017, Epic has provided new content, which includes new cosmetics, new gameplay elements, and changes to the game's map, on a roughly 10 - week basis . This also introduced the use of the battle pass for players to obtain some of this new content by completing challenges and gaining experience . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Season </Th> <Th> Period </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 1 </Td> <Td> September 2017--December 2017 </Td> <Td> Retroactively considered the first season upon the start of second . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 2 </Td> <Td> December 2017--February 2018 </Td> <Td> Introduction of the battle pass . Medieval themed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 3 </Td> <Td> February 2018--April 2018 </Td> <Td> Space - themed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 4 </Td> <Td> May 2018--July 2018 </Td> <Td> Superhero / Movies - themed season . Leading up to the start of Season 4, players had observed shooting stars crossing the game's map during Season 3, which later became small meteorites that hit the ground and caused some damage . Across all games a large meteor also started to appear, on track to hit the game map to coincide with the start of Season 4, completely destroying one of the major landmarks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 5 </Td> <Td> July 2018--September 2018 </Td> <Td> Time travel - themed season . Prior to this season, Epic established a one - time event across all games on June 30, 2018 that fired a rocket from a villainous lair which created interdimensional rifts on the map . The rifts grew over the next few days, with some in - game objects disappearing and new objects from other time periods appearing . As part of its marketing, Epic planted a real - world version of the "Durrr - Burger" restaurant sign in the California desert, with clues pointing to locations of real - world version of the game's loot llamas located around the world . The season started with changes of the map due to these rifts, while the rifts remained as a gameplay element within the season, teleporting the player to a high elevation and to re-land elsewhere in the map . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Season 6 </Td> <Td> September 2018--present </Td> <Td> Darkness and corruption themed . Near the end of the fifth season, another one - time event occurred in which the rifts created by the rocket launch closed up, leaving a large purple cube with glyphs on its surface in the game world, which players nicknamed "Kevin". Kevin slowly moved on its own across the map, in certain spots leaving behind glyphs that created low - gravity playing areas . Kevin ended its journey by falling into Loot Lake, turning its water purple and making it a bouncy surface . At the start of the sixth season, the skies above the map darkened and Kevin re-emerged from the lake, lifting Loot Lake's island and mansion high into the air and occasionally moving it to different places above the map . The lake is then renamed "Leaky Lake", becoming a whirlpool that levitates anyone who approaches it . Several other places on the map became "corrupted" where players could find Shadow Stones which makes them temporarily invisible, able to move faster, and pass through objects, but unable to use weapons . Through the course of the season, the floating island moved across the map to the spots where Kevin had left the glyphs, pulling up a small part of the land as a miniature floating island in its wake . Eventually, the glyphs of seven floating islands were activated, destroying the mansion and the island that Kevin was levitating and scattering the remains across the map, which then became portals that heralded the arrival of transdimensional alien creatures named "Cube Monsters". The Monsters become a new side threat to all players, similar to the Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode, and can easily be slain with special weapons for loot . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Season </Th> <Th> Period </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr>

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