On Wednesday evening, April 25th, the servers at Fortnite report an outage. The login on PC, PS4, and Xbox One has failed. The servers are offline. What is going on? Why isn’t Fortnite working? And why are there such long queues now.
It was supposed to be a quiet Wednesday evening at Fortnite. The weekly patch 3.6 came out on Tuesday. A server maintenance was actually scheduled for next week when Season 4 begins (and probably a comet will strike).
However, since around 6:00 PM, complaints have been increasing: “Fortnite login failed,” an error has occurred. The servers are offline.
Emergency server maintenance is needed to let blocked players back in
The reason is an emergency maintenance of the servers that Fortnite is conducting. This was necessary because a few players could no longer log in. They want to let these players back into the game, for which downtime is necessary. These players were blocked due to a backend service update, an adjustment that only affected the servers on Epic Games’ side.
The current downtime at Fortnite should therefore only be a short disruption that will be resolved soon. A new Fortnite update or a server maintenance by Epic Games is actually not planned.
The downtime came without notice. Epic says: We’re sorry, but this had to be done quickly because some players could not play at all.
We all want to hope that it won’t be another massive maintenance like on April 12th, which has gone down in the history of gaming as a great Fortnite crisis. The servers were offline for almost an entire day.
Fortnite servers back online – There will be queues
Update: It looks like the servers came back online around 6:40 PM. Enjoy the Fortnite queue now that everyone is trying to log in at the same time!
Epic warns that players on PS4 and Xbox One might experience a crash after starting the game when launching Fortnite. They should just try again.
While you wait for the Fortnite servers to come back online, we recommend this article, which discusses the difference between “Fortnite: Battle Royale” and “Fortnite: Save the World”. Also, I know the author pretty well and they would appreciate it if you give it a read.
