Fortnite’s servers are down for a prolonged upkeep interval on Monday, October 3, based on the official Fortnite Standing Twitter account.
The server outage for the battle royale was intentional, prepping the game for its subsequent update: Update 22.10. Nevertheless it hasn’t fairly gone to plan. Upkeep downtime was set to start at 4 am EST on October 4. As a substitute, it started almost 12 hours early, round 5 pm EST.
“As a consequence of a difficulty, we’re getting into downtime early,” Fortnite Standing tweeted. “Update 22.10 will nonetheless launch tomorrow October 4th.”
Epic did not present an estimate for the way lengthy Fortnite will probably be offline, however did say it’s going to let gamers know when the downtime has ended. With the update nonetheless deliberate for Tuesday, the upkeep could final till at the very least midnight EST, and even via its initially deliberate window.
Usually, we would anticipate Fortnite server upkeep to final 2-4 hours, although downtime might be longer for large updates. It is unclear why precisely Epic initiated this downtime sooner than deliberate. Servers needs to be again on-line someday on Tuesday, October 4.
