Within every 3 months Garena Free Fire releases a new patch update. With each patch, Garena Free Fire introduces a brand new character, awesome events, rework with game's current meta, introduces new features and fixes available glitches and bugs that are currently available in live server.
Players are stay excited for a brand new patch update because each patch update introduces a new Weapon Royale, triple store update (FF Token, Magic Cube, Normal Store). Brand new mega event launches so game's loading screen and lobby changes and new in-game mission quests are given for limited time period.
Garena Free Fire's Next OB49 Patch Update Official Release Date:
According to the current Weapon Royale's schedule, Garena Free Fire's next OB49 patch update will appear in-game on 21 May 2025. Users can update or download Free Fire's OB49 version at 9 AM (IST) on that day and the server will open at 9:30 AM (IST). Between this time period, users who have updated or downloaded their game client into OB49 can't log in to the game.
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Process and Update Timeline for OB49:
OB49 of Game will be ready to launch by Wednesday, May 21, 2025. For a smooth and trouble-free gaming experience, players are requested to update their game from app store. The update will arrive in three phases:
1. Pre-Update Period:
This is preparation period, estimated to take about 1h30m (From 07:30 AM → 09:00 AM, May 21, 2025). During this period, players will be able to play the game normally with the OB48 version. However, starting from 09:00, you won’t be able to queue up for rank modes in OB48.
2. New Patch Publishing Period:
From 09:00 AM players will be able to update the game from app store. From 09:00 AM → 09:30 AM, May 21, 2025 players can’t login to game as server will not stay online. But from 09:30 AM players can login to game and can enjoy new contents. In this period the OB48 version will stay online, players who will not update the game can easily play in OB48 version. However, players who have logged in to OB49 they can’t login to OB48 version and also can’t play together with the players who are in OB48.
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3. Obligatory Update Period:
The OB48 version will stay online till May 26, 2025. In this period players will be forcefully redirected to app store to update their game while players will try to login in OB48 version. Players will not be able to login to the game in this period in the OB48 version.
OB49 Update New Contents in Free Fire:
Many new contents will arrive in game after OB49 patch, but currently it is impossible to discuss in detail as the patch is not launched yet! Here are few key contents of OB49 patch:
New Weapon Royale
New Magic Cube Bundles
Triple store update
New Lobby
New Loading Screen
New Mega Event
A new character
Character balance adjustments
Character skill reworks
Update in character system
Some locations on the map have been reworked
New Weapon
Weapon adjustments
Battle Royale updates
Clash Squad updates
Basic experience improvements
Players can check out more contents by logging to the game after OB49 update.
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