When Is Fortnite 2025 New Year Live Event

Take a pause from firefights for a while since Epic Games takes out firecrackers for New Year celebration. Gamers can spend their New Year in their space with countdown while playing Fortnite. See here everything about the Fortnite 2025 New Year live event. 

Event Schedule and Time Zones

With your PC running, you can celebrate your New Year with Fortnite. This is certainly one of the fun ways for gamers to welcome the coming new year 2025. So the Fortnite 2025 New Year live event starts on December 31, 2024. This event will run through until January 1, 2025, marking the start of another year. 

So this follows the patterns in previous years where the celebrations take place every hour on the hour. With this, players across the world can participate regardless of their time zone. For the first event, it will kick off right exactly at 10 AM GMT or 5 AM ET on December 31. It uses the same timezone as Kiribati, the first country that enters the new year. 

Then, the hourly celebrations will go through the day for players in other regions to experience the fun festivities. It’ll be available whenever they want to participate. 

What to Expect During the Celebration

Will the celebration be grand? Unfortunately, Epic Games won’t be doing any major season-ending or chapter-concluding events for the New Year. Instead, the celebration will be more subtle and entertaining for players regardless. 

Fortnite will temporarily disable combat in hourly celebrations to give way to a mini dance session. All players on the island get to break out in a dance activity to celebrate. Then, they’ll also have the sky lit up with fireworks displays for an ultimate festive experience. 

All these mini-celebrations will last for a minute, just a pause from their regular battle royale action. What’s good with this is that even if you miss one celebration, there’ll be more for you in the next hours.

Special Times Square Experience

It’ll be another fun and exciting Times Square experience that is coming in the Fortnite 2025 New Year live event. Epic Games offers this to make your 2025 celebration beyond special, despite the common fireworks display.

Times Square was once seen during the Snoop Dogg concert, which has been a massive success. Fortnite has a dedicated creative map that took inspiration from this iconic New York Times Square New Year’s celebration. 

This will allow players to virtually experience the famous ball drop in the most Fortnite way possible. Also, this creative map will give a more immersive celebration to those that want it that way. In short, it’ll be more than the regular battle royale fireworks experience with the map.

How to Participate in the New Year Event

Luckily, players can easily join this Fortnite 2025 New Year Live event to come on December 31, 2024. To see the hourly fireworks display, all players have to do is simply join a regular Battle Royale match. If you just want to watch the display, then join the match near the hour mark. 

The celebration will automatically happen once the clock strikes the hour mark, pausing the matches for fireworks. After that, everyone can resume their usual intense battle royal action. However, for those that want to experience the Times Square celebration, it’ll be a different process. 

They have to go to the game’s menu and access the special creative map. It’ll be better if they log in a few minutes before their preferred celebration time. This will ensure that they won’t miss any of the festivities that happen in Times Square. 

Conclusion

That’s all the details for the Fortnite 2025 New Year live event. Another year is about to be exciting just with these celebrations prepared by Epic Games. You can either join a battle royale match for fireworks or access the creative map for Times Square ball drop. Most definitely, you can do both of these since it’ll be an hourly celebration.