Fortnite’s Christmas Is Coming, What We Know About Winterfest 2020

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It’s that time of the year again, the time when we parachute onto a snow-covered wonderland and hunt down our fellow revelers in the particular mix of festivity and violence that only a video game holiday can deliver. Winterfest, also known as Christmas, is coming to Fortnite, probably pretty soon.

It’s a bit difficult to predict these things because Fortnite hasn’t actually been around for that long, and it’s changed its event formats pretty dramatically every year. One thing has remained consistent: it’s revolved around the 14 days of Fortnite, which is a mixture of challenges and rewards, one a day, for 14 days, straddling Christmas and New Year’s. That means we probably won’t see it until the latter half of the month, which will come more quickly than you expect.

Here’s the one piece of information I’ve seen in leaks that’s terribly unconfirmed, but still intriguing:

Last year, we got a “Winterfest Cabin” stacked with presents that we got to open one each day, and I’d love to see a return of that: it also included the only actual free skins that the game had seen at that point: no subscriptions, outside purchases, memberships or anything, just a true free skin.

It also wouldn’t be impossible to see these holiday skins show up on the map as NPCs, now that NPCs are just sort of a regular part of the game. I imagine that we’ll definitely get some of those, along with regular holiday sorts of things in-game: the sneaky snowman, for example, or some challenges that revolve around throwing the snowball toy. I’d also be shocked if the map didn’t wind up covered in snow and dotted with Christmas decorations at some point, maybe with a challenge that involves dancing in front of trees, like we usually see. Probably something fireworks-related for New Year’s.

I’d expect to see the event start sometime a little closer to Christmas: in the past it’s started on December 20 and December 18, so stay tuned. Our next patch will probably contain a much larger drop of new information, so we’ll see what’s in there and if we can figure out what Epic has planned this year.