FORTNITE Season 6 is beginning later this month with confirmed competitive changes and a leaked Season 5 live event.

Epic Games is promising a replacement Battle Pass for Fortnite Season 6, which is predicted to return out later this month.

The full release date has not been confirmed yet, but with the newest news suggesting a launch around March 18, give or take a couple of days.

Epic Games has not revealed its full plans for Fortnite Season 6, but they need confirmed what they’re changing as a part of the game’s Competitive Modes.

According to a replacement post from the event team, a preseason is being figured out to assist with the transition from Season 5.

A message from Epic reveals: “We’re getting to add a competitive preseason for one week (March 16-23) so players can experience everything Chapter 2 Season 6 has got to offer and provides us feedback.

“Additionally, players will retain Hype from Season 5 until the conclusion of the preseason. At that time, the competitive season for Chapter 2 Season 6 are going to be gin and everybody will be reset to 0 Hype points.

"Players will have a minimum of every week to earn enough Hype points to compete within the first Cash Cup of Season 6. We'll continue the Monday Trios Cash Cups, Saturday Solo Cash Cups, and Sunday LTM Tournaments from Season 5.

“FNCS Chapter 2 Season 6 will begin on April 22. As a reminder, the format will still be Trios, because it is going to be for all of 2021.

“The start date should give players many time to seek out their Trios partners, get familiar with the new season, and permit us to form any necessary adjustments before the beginning of FNCS.

“Speaking of adjustments, we’re evaluating different options for tweaking how teams qualify through Series Points, and fine-tuning scoring systems and formats for all competitive offerings.

"We’ll share more details on subsequent FNCS season, along side the mid year event, soon. Until then, we hope you enjoy the remainder of this season’s FNCS.”

This is the primary little bit of news being shared by Epic Games, but more is predicted to be announced before the large launch.

One big leak in the week includes an update regarding the launch of the ultimate Fortnite Season 5 event.

Dataminers have found the primary clues of what is going to be changing next, with the map seeing tweaks before the top of Season 5.

The first gamers might notice is NPCs being transported to different locations round the map, with in-game communications being affected too.

Dataminers have also found clues that in-game audio might be suffering from the zero when player characters get on the brink of it.

This could even reach voice chat, which could bring some interesting encounters before the top of Fortnite Season 5.

However, fans are still expecting the large leak which will provides a clear clue on what's being planned for just before the launch of Season 6.

For now, all we all know is that something should be beginning before March 15, the official day the present Battle Pass ends.