Fortnite: Battle Royale is getting a small patch today outside of the regular schedule. The update aims to resolve issues with tournaments. There are no patch notes, but we know what is included in the update.
What’s up with the tournaments? With Update 6.10, a new feature came to Fortnite: public tournaments. In the coming weeks, all players regardless of their skill level can participate in ranked, official tournaments within the game.
As a reward for their efforts, there are cool rewards for everyone who performs well in the respective tournament.
Tournaments for everyone sound great, don’t they? Unfortunately, the new public tournaments are too successful. Because at the very first alpha tournament that started yesterday, a massive number of players signed up. Unfortunately, that turned out to be too much and problems occurred.
The staff from Epic jokingly referred to the lack of server capacity on Twitter last night as a “shortage of Battle Buses”.
Hotfix patch aims to fix tournaments
What is Epic doing about the issues? As usual, the developers quickly became aware of the problem and worked on a solution. Recently, a hotfix update of about 440 megabytes was deployed to the servers.
Is Fortnite down? Not at all, as the hotfix was implemented without downtime. You just need to download the update. This does not apply to Fortnite on iOS, where no patch was necessary.
Where are the patch notes? There don’t seem to be any. According to Epic on Twitter, the hotfix patch only aims to fix the issues with tournament registrations. When the next tournament phase starts today, October 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM our time, it will show whether the patch was successful.
If there are any further fixes in the patch today, we will add patch notes here as soon as we find out.
Until then, let’s hope that the public tournaments in Fortnite will function properly again. Will you be there for the next round today at 6:00 PM?
