Fortnite OG is here, bringing back planes, hamster balls, Tilted Towers and more over the next four weeks

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Fortnite’s nostalgic latest season has kicked off, bringing back a slew of weapons, vehicles, items and cosmetics from the battle royale game’s first chapter. The truncated Fortnite Chapter 4 Season OG - which will last just four weeks, rather than the usual three months - has also restored the game’s original map as seen in Chapter 1, meaning the return of places like Tilted Towers, Loot Lake and Greasy Grove.

A flashback season for Fortnite was teased by several leaks a few weeks back, with developers Epic eventually confirming earlier this week that the multiplayer shooter’s next season would be a trip back to its early days.

Specifically, Season OG has kicked off today with an update based on Chapter 1 Season 5, meaning the unvaulting of the Assault Rifle, Pump Shotgun and Hunting Rifle as weapons, with the Damage Trap, Grappler and Boogie Bomb re-added as items.

On the vehicle front, shopping carts and the All Terrain Kart are back in, letting you whizz around locations including Greasy Grove, Risky Reels and the iconic Tilted Towers, which was a classic place to drop and normally get immediately eliminated (if you’re me, anyway) until being blown up in 2019.

To keep pace with the fairly whistlestop season, the Season 5 tribute will last just a week until November 9th, which will bring elements from Season 6 back into the mix. That includes Loot Lake as a location, along with weapons including the Double Barrel Shotgun, Clinger and Six Shooter and items such as the Chiller Trap, Port-a-Fortress and Mounted Turrets. The Quadcrasher quad bike will join the Driftboard - which was technically added in Season 7, but will jump up the queue here - as vehicles.

Then on November 16th it’s time for Seasons 7 and 8,