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At the start of Fortnite Season 4, Epic Games added a new 'Blockbuster' challenge.

The design of this mysterious new challenge was simple. In short, complete all seven of the weekly challenges and you'll unlock special loading screen.

And within each loading screen is a clue to an additional Battle Star which can be found in the game, which also helps further boost your Season 4 Battle Pass ranking.

Complete all of the Blockbuster challenges throughout the season and get yourself a special skin.

However, there's much more to these loading screens than acting as a simple tick box.

According to Epic, they also "add to the narrative of Season 4" as the game looks to introduce a story behind some of these skins which have become so popular in the past few weeks.

You can see all of the Blockbuster Challenges revealed so far in the gallery below as well as the locations of those all important hidden Battle Stars...

Players noticed that after the first seven loading screens that they already had the week 8 loading screen as well. But what was more strange was that it didn't include a hidden battle star anywhere.

According to the intelligent folk on the Fortnite sub-reddit, there's a very good reason why you shouldn't be trying to find a new Battle Star from week 8, 9 or 10.

It doesn't exist.

That's right. The hidden battle stars were only intended for weeks 1- 7. That's why last week users also noticed that the special blockbuster skin unlocked after players completed seven weeks of challenges.

For anyone that missed it, the skin was called ‘The Visitor’ and featured a customizable head display along with a special piece of ‘Offworld Rig’ back bling. You can take a closer look in the gallery above and video below.

So, to recap. There is no loading screen for week 9 and 10. There is a loading screen for week 8, but it didn't feature a special hidden battle star.

Importantly though, these loading screens reportedly "add to the narrative of Season 4" and whilst we've seen the rocket launch and the subsequent rifts in time that have lead us up to the launch of Season 5, there doesn't to appear to be any link between it all yet.

Perhaps with the start of season 5 we'll get more details or explanation.

Maybe some of those other Season 4 clues, like the mysterious bunker, will be explained. Only time will tell.

And Thankfully, with Season 5 launch Thursday morning, there's not long to wait.

As per usual, this new season 5 update will be coming at 9am BST.

So stay tuned for updates in the meantime.