Fortnite Chapter 1 will return to the battle royale “permanently,” leaks claim

All ten seasons of Fortnite Chapter 1 are reportedly set to return to the game from next month onwards, according to two prominent leakers.

Roughly this time last year, Fortnite saw its highest player count ever as nostalgic gamers flooded back to the battle royale for its mini OG season, which brought back the original Chapter 1 island. Right now, Epic Games is trying to replicate that success with Chapter 2 Remix, another mini season that includes content from some of the best seasons of that era. However, according to two prominent leakers, classic Fortnite Chapter 1 content will be returning soon in a major way – and this time it’ll be for the long haul.

With Call of Duty Warzone planning to bring back its original Verdansk map next year, Apex Legends’ new season taking players back to how things were in Season 1, and Fortnite’s recent throwbacks to Chapter 1 and 2, you can see that nostalgia is a valuable commodity in the best battle royale games. However, if what is being rumored right now turns out to be true (and given the track records of the leakers, that’s very likely) then Fortnite is going to give some of its earliest players a long-term reason to return to the game.

Both ‘Hypex’ and ‘ShiinaBR’ have heard from anonymous sources that all ten seasons of Fortnite Chapter 1 will be coming back to the game and will support both the regular experience and Zero Build. The leakers claim that it will have a “completely OG loot pool” containing only weapons from those seasons.

Each individual season of Chapter 1 will return on a monthly basis, so you’ll have a month of playing Chapter 1 Season 1, a month of Chapter 2 Season 2, and so on. Assumedly, this will also include all the map changes, new weapons, and other content that those seasons introduced.

The pair also claim that this could be revealed at The Game Awards, which is set to air on Thursday, December 12. However, Hypex also says it could be announced during “The Finale,” presumably meaning the finale of the current Chapter 2 Remix season. That’s scheduled to wrap up on Saturday, November 30.

The rollout of Fortnite Chapter 1 seasons is expected to start in December itself, so if these reports are correct, you might be replaying the earliest season of Fortnite before the end of the year.

Even with leakers as well-established as Hypex and ShiinaBR, rumors should always be taken with a pinch of salt – Hypex says that the pair can “verify most of it” but there’s always scope for things to change or info to be wide of the mark. However, neither would be bold enough to leak this without a strong degree of confidence – if it’s wrong, they’ll have a lot of disappointed Fortnite fans to answer to.

I have to admit that the recent nostalgia obsession among some big multiplayer games has started to concern me a bit – I’m excited by these brief moments where we get to revisit golden eras of these games, but when old content is reused at the expense of creating truly original new experiences, it definitely makes me feel uneasy. This full Chapter 1 revival is being touted as a permanent fixture to Fortnite, so it should exist as its own entity within the game, which I’m more than happy with.

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