Summary
- Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4, titled Absolute Doom, will be exclusively Marvel-themed.
- Epic Games has released a picture of the upcoming Battle Royale map covered by a mysterious green mist.
- The teaser trailer confirms that a prison will be added to the Chapter 5 Season 4 map, as well as a Doctor Doom-dominated location.
With Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4's launch date just around the corner, Epic Games has started teasing some of the elements that will be included in Absolute Doom, including certain portions of the upcoming Battle Royale map. Disney and Fortnite have worked together on several occasions, with characters from Marvel and Star Wars making various appearances in-game over the past few years. Earlier this year, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games, making it likely that these appearances will happen more frequently.
For a while now, rumors implying that the next big Fortnite update would be Marvel-themed have been circling the community, and this became clear during the Fortnite x Disney D23 livestream on August 10. During the livestream, Disney revealed the Chapter 5 Season 4 trailer, which featured tons of Marvel skins. Some of the skins were revamped in order to make them more suitable for the Fortnite Battle Pass, namely Peely in a Wolverine suit. Nevertheless, Fortnite Absolute Doom will focus exclusively on Marvel characters.
The Absolute Doom trailer showed a fair bit of content that's expected to be featured during the next season of Fortnite. Fans got to see the Chapter 5 Season 4 Battle Pass skins, mythic powers and weapons, and even some never-before-seen landmarks and locations in the background. The latter made fans particularly curious about the changes that would be made to the Fortnite map. To tease them further, Epic Games released a picture of the upcoming Battle Royale map covered by a mysterious green mist.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 POIs Likely To Be Vaulted
- Lavish Lair
- Classy Courts
- Brutal Beachhead
- Pleasant Piazza
The Fortnite Absolute Doom reveal trailer made it clear that a prison would be added to the Chapter 5 Season 4 map, as well as a Doctor Doom-dominated location. The mist in the map preview covers various POIs on the map, such as Classy Courts, Brutal Beachhead, and Sandy Steppes. However, other locations seem to be immune. Lavish Lair and Pleasant Piazza seem to be the most likely locations for the new Marvel POIs, as it is possible to see that they've undergone significant changes.
The official Fortnite X account spoke about the undiscovered stories in each location, tagging Marvel and asking for help as part of the teaser. Marvel then replied with a picture of one of the upcoming POIs for the Fortnite Battle Royale map, Latveria, a country dominated by the one and only Doctor Doom. To learn more about its relation to Fortnite, fans will have to wait until the release of Chapter 5 Season 4 on August 16.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 84 /100 Critics Rec: 94%
- Released
- September 26, 2017
- ESRB
- T for Teen - Diverse Content: Discretion Advised, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- Epic Games
- Publisher(s)
- Epic Games







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- Unreal Engine 5
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- All platforms (except iOS/Mac)
- Cross Save
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- Platform(s)
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- Local Co-Op Support
- 1-4 players (certain modes)