Is Fortnite down? Server downtime schedule and what's new in Remix Chapter 2

It's astir clip to leap into Fortnite Remix Chapter 2, the spiritual successor to Fortnite OG, but we're gonna person to get done a play of server downtime first

It’s clip – Fortnite Remix Chapter 2 is finally, almost, upon america – being ushered successful by yet different unrecorded event. I conjecture Epic is feeling generous!

It’s been a agelong clip coming for Fortnite players, adjacent though Epic Games has made the hold look beauteous casual to endure. Fortnite OG was the biggest splash that the crippled made past year, giving players a hearty dose of nostalgia arsenic it plunged them backmost into the earliest iteration of its conflict royale mode. It was an awesome mode to execute specified a season, too, featuring a Battle Pass crammed with homage skins to the earliest days of the crippled – but it seems that Fortnite intends to bash things a small otherwise this clip around.

Fortnite Remix Chapter 2 is coming to the Island precise soon – successful what is fundamentally OG Chapter 2 – with a fig of twists connected the iconic 2019 epoch of the game, and there's plentifulness of new contented to expect, including caller skins, crossovers and adjacent immoderate iconic POI's returning.

There’s, clearly, a batch to look guardant to successful Fortnite Remix Chapter 2, and erstwhile the Fortnite unrecorded event (titled Remix The Prelude) has concluded, we volition carnivore witnesser to the caller play and bring the fantabulous Chapter 5 Season 4 to an end. So, arsenic the clip nears, we person to inquire erstwhile again – is Fortnite down?

Is Fortnite down?

Fortnite server downtime volition statesman astatine 6am GMT / 2am EDT connected Saturday, November 2, and Friday, November 1 astatine 11pm PDT, up of the motorboat of Remix Chapter 2, with Epic Games confirming the downtime via a Twitter post. Matchmaking volition beryllium disabled astir 30 minutes beforehand though, truthful don't beryllium amazed if you can't find immoderate caller games during this time, though you'll astir apt beryllium participating successful The Prelude unrecorded lawsuit anyway!

As this v32.00 update is rolling retired an wholly caller Fortnite season, we'd expect the downtime to past for astir 5 hours – conscionable similar the downtime earlier Chapter 5 Season 4 – truthful Fortnite could beryllium down until 11am GMT / 7am EDT / 4am PDT connected Saturday, November 2, which is erstwhile we foretell Fortnite Remix Chapter 2 volition start. But, with each that being said, Epic Games does person a past of throwing a spanner successful the works with downtime, peculiarly recently, with Fortnite postponing its Fortnitemares downtime by an full time past month, truthful beryllium prepared to rotation with the punches.

Considering what Epic Games cooked up past season, it's built up capable goodwill that we tin accidental with immoderate confidence, that Remix Chapter 2 could good beryllium a banger.