Epic Games has plunged Fortnite into immoderate daze downtime successful what appears to beryllium the last spot of Chapter 5.
Fortnite's squad seemed insistent that the adjacent update would travel aft the Fortnitemares event had travel to its conclusion, and though galore leakers asserted that a caller update would travel earlier then, nary predicted a Friday greeting crippled blackout. It looks, though, similar that's what we're getting, and it could beryllium the last update we get earlier the accomplishment of Fortnite Remix Chapter 2.
Is Fortnite down?
At this moment, Fortnite is presently down, with the downtime officially starting astatine 9am BST / 4am EDT / 1am PDT. The server downtime was revealed in a tweet from the Fortnite Status Twitter account, revealing that downtime hap today, giving players conscionable 12 hours' notice. Don't panic though, due to the fact that we expect downtime to end astatine astir 1pm BST / 8am EDT / 6am PDT.
These updates are usually overmuch easier to spot, but this is simply a beauteous shocking update to driblet connected players astatine the precise past minute. Next week volition bring the extremity of Fortnitemares and Chapter 5 with it arsenic the crippled rolls into Fortnite Remix Chapter 2, truthful nary wonderment Epic Games is panicking astir loading each of the indispensable files into the game.
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