‘Fortnite’ New Chapter 4 Map Leaks Online

The new map coming to Fortnite with the launch of Chapter 4 has leaked online.

Fortnite dataminer HYPEX leaked the map Saturday ahead of today’s big live-event.

The new map looks pretty cool, but it’s hard to know just from the one leaked screenshot, which is from the cinematic trailer (apparently) rather than an actual shot of the in-game map. That means we don’t have Points Of Interest yet.

Here’s what it looks like:

Some observations:

• a snow biome with high, craggy mountain peaks
• below that, the island is split into what appears to be an autumn biome and a summer biome, both dotted with trees and fields.
• Most of the water in the map is on the outside of the island, pouring off into space below. There appear to be a couple small lakes but that’s about it.
• This is part of a cinematic and it appears that either bits are being pulled off the map into space or perhaps the reverse, and this is coming together with other areas being sucked toward the map, meaning it’s possible that some of the water will be filled in with new bits of map overtime.

Other Updates

Usually, Epic Games will release the various trailers and promotional stuff when servers go back online. Right now it’s rumored that server downtime will be about 12 hours, so we should see Chapter 4, Season 1 launch tomorrow.

Bonus: Apparently double-jump is coming to Fortnite in Chapter 4 as well.

UPDATE

Okay now I’ve seen the leaked trailer and it definitely looks like the map is being pulled together so those other pieces hovering around could be added the map.

In the trailer, it appears that Brie Larson’s Paradigm had to basically destroy the old map and use it to build the new one, which isn’t quite as clever as the flipped-over map from the previous Chapter 2 to 3 swap. Still, I’m very ready for a new map!