Fortnite OG Map Changes In Season 2

Our nostalgic journey into Fortnite's past is continuing onward this week with the launch of Fortnite OG Season 2, which takes us back to the 2017 version of Fortnite. Epic's metaverse as we know it didn't exist then--this game was just a burgeoning battle royale with a unique building mechanic that was quickly blowing up. And with the release of OG Season 2, we've gotten a change to the game's mpa.

But the original Fortnite Season 2 was a landmark, though not for its gameplay. Instead, it's because Season 2 is when Fortnite introduced its battle pass concept that pretty much the entire rest of the games industry has borrowed in the seven years since. And with that battle pass came the solidification of Epic's strategy of using FOMO (fear of missing out) tactics to sell cosmetics.

For those hoping that Fortnite OG Season 2 would bring that old battle pass back and give you the chance to earn the Black Knight skin: Sorry, it's not happening today. But Fortnite OG Season 2 is bringing back several old fan-favorite locations, including a couple that were never brought back on later battle royale islands or in Reload--outside of that first Season OG in 2023, anyway--so there are a couple true oldies here.

But this is just a season change, not a new chapter, so we're only getting a partial overhaul of the map for now. Read on to see everything that's changed on the Fortnite OG island in Season 2.

This little mining town just south of Tilted Towers became a fixture on the map for all of Chapter 1 after it first showed up in Season 2. But Shifty hasn't been gone that long--it returned as a location on the Chapter 3 island, and is also included in Reload.

This quaint little suburb on the western coast of the island is one of Fortnite's all-time best landing spots, but it's been absent from the battle royale island since Chapter 1--though it returned briefly during that first 30-day Fortnite OG season back in 2023.

Haunted Hills is another old location that they haven't re-used on any subsequent battle royale islands, and this initial version of the spot will be pretty barebones compared with how much stuff was added to it by Season 6.

This scrapyard is one of the smaller named locations we've had on the battle royale map--small POIs were much more common in Chapter 1 than they are now.

Arguably the most popular location Fortnite has ever had, Tilted Towers is a place we're all too familiar with because it was a key location in Chapters 1, 3 and 4. But keep in mind that this is the original version of Tilted Towers, which is slightly different and has a little bit less going on than you probably remember. But that'll be part of the fun.