Fortnite Discover Gets a Redesign Starting October 15

Fortnite's Discover screen gets a new look from October 15, rolled out in phases. The top of the screen becomes an edge-to-edge hero carousel fed by video, with several rotating spots.

In Epic's Picks, tiles play a short muted trailer clip when you hover over them. Logos are layered over the art at display time, so they stay sharp at any size, and a ranked Top 10 row uses larger portrait tiles. Tiles also show a like percentage and New or Updated highlights.

Island pages can now add a muted gameplay video next to the screenshots and the trailer.

Creators get four new asset types in the Creator Portal: a gameplay video for the island page, two portrait thumbnails (one with the logo baked in, one art only), an art-only landscape thumbnail and a transparent island name logo.

From October 22, portrait thumbnails, landscape thumbnails and the logo are required to publish or update an island. Starting October 15, Content Pre-Checks also review thumbnails against Discover best practices, and thumbnails that miss them hurt an island's ranking.

Epic also shared its spam numbers: more than 81,000 spam islands removed since March, and its latest ban waves took down 44,535 duplicate islands and 707 accounts.

Epic reminds creators to use only Epic-owned or permitted outfits in their promo art. FortniteRenders has 4K renders on a transparent background and rigged 3D Blender models (.blend) of Fortnite outfits, ready for portrait and landscape thumbnails.