On April 5, there will be maintenance with server downtime at Fortnite. The game will be offline for a while on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and iOS. The huge player influx makes the maintenance necessary. A patch or an update is not planned. They were already released on Wednesday.
As Epic announced last night on Twitter, today, Thursday, the servers at Fortnite will indeed be going offline for maintenance.
Surprising maintenance at Fortnite on PC, PS4, Xbox One, iOS
The reason is not a new patch – that was released just yesterday. While players are used to little happening at Fortnite on Thursday mornings, due to the servers being down for maintenance, it was actually only supposed to happen every other week.
It was originally planned for players to be able to play normally today.
However, the servers at Fortnite will still go down today, as Epic wants to work on the system on their side to handle the growing player numbers.
When will the servers go down and when will Fortnite be back?
The update is expected from our perspective to take place at 10:00 AM. In the USA, it is currently 4:00 AM ET on the East Coast, which is late at night; on the West Coast, it is around 1:00 AM.
How long the Fortnite servers will be offline and when Fortnite will be back is not yet known. There is definitely no “extended downtime” announced – the servers could be back online around 12:00 PM.
Update: Indeed. The Fortnite servers were back online around 11:10 AM!
Player influx makes maintenance necessary
The update is necessary because more and more players are discovering Fortnite and this is causing issues. Over the Easter weekend, the influx was so great that Fortnite even had to disable features to reduce the load on the servers. For several days, players could not check their stats.
Now they want to bring an update that improves the “scaling”, so that Fortnite becomes more stable in the future.
Once the servers are back up, there will surely be new challenges for the Battle Pass. You can find information about the new challenges of week 7 in Fortnite here again at Mein MMO.
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