FORTNITE servers are down today, leaving millions of disappointed fans.
The popular battle royale game announced that it was shutting off its servers temporarily to get ready for a new update.
Maintenance was due to happen on October 4
Fans have been without the game for several hours, with reports pouring in to DownDetector.
Fortnite has given no indication as to how long the game will be out of action.
“We’re beginning to disable matchmaking in preparation for the v23.50 update, with server downtime beginning soon,” Fortnite said in a statement.
“We’ll let you know when downtime has ended!”
Why is Fortnite down?
Fortnite regularly takes some down time to get things ready for a new update.
When else was Fortnite down?
Fortnite last went down in October last year.
The game was scheduled to go down at around 8am BST on October 4 to make way for key updates.
This is so developers could make space for maintenance and roll out Update 22.10.
This was actually a mid-season update of Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 4.
On January 13, 2022, Fortnite Status tweeted: “We are investigating login issues in Fortnite.
“We will update you when the issues are resolved.”
The issues affected players trying to get involved in Winterfest 2021.
There were unexpected errors when signing in and connecting to servers.
Fortnite was reported to be down on December 29, 2021.
According to Downdetector, users reported issues with the server connection and logging in. The issues began in the US around 10.40am EST.
Some users reported saying they had an error message say, “you don’t have permission to play Fortnite.”
Gamers took to Twitter to discuss Fortnite being down and the servers not working.
Fortnite commented on the outage saying, “We are investigating login, matchmaking and other issues. We will update you when the issues are resolved.”
On December 14, users had issues with the game ahead of a new update.
The developers, Epic Games, said they had disabled matchmaking ahead of the upcoming v19.01 update.
On its server status page, it noted that almost all parts of Fortnite were “under maintenance”.
This includes game services to the item shops and leaderboards.
On December 14, game services, login, matchmaking and more were under maintenance as the company rolls out the v19.01 update.
That was the first big update to Fortnite Chapter Three.
It will likely add a number of new items and NPCs for the game’s annual seasonal WinterFest event.
It was previously inaccessible for fans as it geared up for the launch of the new season.
On Saturday, December 4, 2021, at 1pm PT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT players took part in the live Fortnite “The End” event.
The event was a one-time only deal so if you missed it, there’s no way to play it once it’s over.
Fortnite’s epic season finale featured an appearance by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, which is no great shock, given all the hints the game and he have been doling out lately.
The season ended with the island flipping upside down to reveal a brand new map.
The Fortnite server downtime ended at 3pm GMT on Sunday, December 5.
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