What Time Does Season 7 of Fortnite Start?
By Nicholas Barth ·
What time does Season 7 of Fortnite start? That is the question millions of players are currently asking themselves, and we have the answer covered for you.
With the rise of Fortnite Battle Royale into becoming one of the most popular video games in the world, the start of a new season is now seen as holiday with Epic Games adding a great deal of new content each time. This time of transition for Fortnite has come once again with Season 7 of the title scheduled to start on Thursday, December 6th. However, the exact start time for Season 7 had not yet been revealed by developer Epic Games until Wednesday, December 5th when a tweet finally answered the simple question of what time does Season 7 of Fortnite start, and we have the answered covered for you.
What Time Does Season 7 of Fortnite Start?
The official Twitter account for the massively popular battle royale game posted an announcement stating that downtime for the v7.0 update, which will officially commence the beginning of the new period of highly anticipated content, will begin at 2 PM PST/ 3 PM CST/ 4 EST/ 0900 UTC.
Stay frosty! Downtime for Season 7 begins December 6 at 4 AM ET (0900 UTC). ❄️
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) December 5, 2018
Downtime for the start of a new content period for the title usually lasts around an hour with the patch notes for entry 7 of the game's timeline likely to be made available at the beginning of the server downtime on Thursday, December 6th.
The community for Fortnite will be extremely excited to see what plans Epic Games has in store for the start of the new season, as the three teaser images for the upcoming content of Fortnite have shown off everything from winter landscapes and new skins to the addition of ziplines and planes to the game.
A new creative mode will also be introduced to Fortnite in Season 7 early for players who purchase the new Battle Pass that will allow the community to create their very own private islands in any way they would like.
With the question of what time does Season 7 of Fortnite start having been finally answered, the community for the battle royale game only have a little while more to wait to experience everything new that Epic Games has created for them.
(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)