Fortnite goes down: Epic Games announces for today Maintenance work on the battle royale shooter on. On the Short message service Twitter the developers give the first information – and name 10 a.m. as the start time of the maintenance. Fortnite will therefore no longer be playable at the usual downtime time. During maintenance, neither logins nor game joins are possible. In all likelihood, the matchmaking system will be switched off half an hour earlier. At around 9:30 a.m. you will take part in your last game before the server downtime. After that it’s over.
Fortnite: Downtime and new update today
Unlike previous downtimes, this time there is an approximate duration: As reported by Epic Games, it should Maintenance takes about an hour. If everything goes according to plan, the servers will return around 11 am. Around noon you can make the Fortnite island unsafe again. As part of the maintenance, Epic Games is installing a new update. It is not yet clear whether today’s patch will contain new content. It has been confirmed that the developers want to eliminate individual errors from the game world with the patch.
First information about the patch
This includes, for example, an optimization of the Shockwave Hammersto address the bouncing issues. Yesterday the developers announced that they had temporarily disabled the shockwave hammer in all playlists due to an issue. So today’s update should get the gun out of the vault again. As soon as we have the patch notes with all changes and innovations, you will find out as usual on our website.
