When does the live event countdown in Fortnite end?

A mysterious countdown has appeared on the Fortnite island as Chapter 5 Season 3 begins to wrap up, which means that there’ll seemingly be a mini occasion to observe as soon as that timer goes off.

Yow will discover this in Brutal Beachhead being projected as a hologram, however past that, not a lot else is going on across the timer itself for now.

Under we listing out the beginning instances for the countdown timer in your area, in addition to what we all know based mostly on datamines on what might occur when the timer finishes.

Fortnite dwell occasion time: When does the countdown finish?

Primarily based on what we’re seeing in recreation, the dwell occasion countdown will finish on Saturday, Aug. 10 in most areas on the following instances:

• 11 a.m. PDT for the west coast of North America
• 2 p.m. EDT for the east coast of North America
• 7 p.m. BST for the U.Ok.
• 8 p.m. CEST for western Europe/Paris
• 3 a.m. JST for Japan/Tokyo on Aug. 11
• 4 a.m. AET for Australia/Sydney on Aug. 11

Observe you need to hop into recreation shortly earlier than this, loot up, and head over to Brutal Beachhead if you wish to see what’s going to occur.

What’s going to occur in Fortnite when the countdown timer ends?

There was no formal announcement about what the deal is with that timer, however some information miners have dug up details about what is going to most likely occur. For many who don’t thoughts spoilers, you possibly can scroll previous the picture under.

Graphic: Julia Lee/gamerjive | Supply photos: Epic Video games

The lengthy and wanting it’s — following the occasion, the map is probably going going to alter a bit bit, and there shall be some sort of tie-in to the upcoming season 4.

This map picture from the FortniteLeaks subreddit does indicate that there shall be a slight map change after the occasion. The map change primarily focuses on Redline Rig, which has some sort of explosive construction in it now.

One other dataminer, McMistrzYT on X (previously Twitter), has rendered the 3D model of the map to indicate that that explosive merchandise is: Pandora’s Field!

It seems that extra mischief is about to be launched by the field for the upcoming season, however we’ll have to attend and see.

Whilst you wait, you should definitely bounce into the just lately added Fall Guys problem and get some simple XP earlier than the season ends.