With the arrival of Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 today, designer Epic has at long last done what they’ve been promising for some time – and have moved the whole fight royale game over to Unreal Engine 5, the most recent form of its own graphics technology.

Back in 2020 with the launch of Unreal Engine 5, Epic guaranteed that it would move its most famous game Fortnite to the new graphics engine by “mid-2021”, which clearly didn’t occur when it should. Fortnite has utilized Unreal Engine 4 since its inception, so players have most likely been pondering when the fight royale would at long last change to the further developed tech.

That time is currently, obviously, similarly as with the release of Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 today the game has officially been moved up to Unreal Engine 5 – which most likely clarifies why the present 19.00 update was so sizeable. It should mean the game looks and performs better, as well as having better impacts and additional detail on objects.

A couple of these progressions can be witnessed in the first Chapter 3 trailer, which – in-between appearances by Spider-Man – flaunts worked on environmental destruction, similar to trees falling and pushing over different trees. There’s additionally a new weather system as well, which even incorporates Battlefield 2042-baiting tornadoes.

Fortnite Chapter 3 is presently live and still commonly free to play, so you can go look at the Unreal Engine 5 loveliness for yourself in the event that you wish. Assuming you want to reach out, Season 1 is down to go on until March so you have a lot of time to procure Spider-Man on the Battle Pass.