The Fortnite downtime went on for about three hours, with Epic Games posting on Twitter at 11:39am GMT to confirm that the game was alive again.
Fortnite downtime today: When did Fortnite come back online?įortnite downtime began at around 8:30am GMT this morning, and the game was offline for quite some time (as you may have noticed).
We'll report back once maintenance is concluded and the update is available.Keep on reading if you want to know all about today's Fortnite update, the full patch notes and when the game came back online. You can read more about what to expect in our story on the new Fortnite patch notes, or see them in full on the official website.
Although not as substantial as the recent map revamp, today's new patch will make changes to both game modes, with some of the more significant updates coming on the Battle Royale side, where the new Chug Jug item will be added. In the meantime, players are unable to get online to play Fortnite's Battle Royale or Save the World modes. "Sorry everyone, it's looking like the Fortnite servers will be down for at least a few more hours," it said. In its most recent update, which came just after 7 AM PT, that same estimate was given. We're making some changes to the backend systems to handle growth." It subsequently stated that downtime would continue as it worked on the matter: "Hi all, it is looking like we are going to be down for at least a few more hours as we scale our backend systems." Epic subsequently announced on Twitter, "We're sorry the update has gone longer than expected. Maintenance began at 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET / 9 AM GMT today, January 25. Maintenance has taken longer than expected, and developer Epic Games says the game will still be down for a period of time as it works to complete the process. Our Top People are on it and it will be up as soon as humanly possible." The original story follows.Ī new update for Fortnite is scheduled to launch today on all platforms, but players on PC, PS4, and Xbox One are unable to play right now. Our first restore failed (due to issues unrelated with the quality of the backup) and we're working on a second attempt at the restore. After significant consideration, we decided our best option was to restore from a backup at the moment we took the servers down for the patch. "Those tasks ended up causing the database to go into a bad state.
"During our downtime to upgrade to 2.3, we were performing recommended tasks to resolve a lingering database issue," a post on Epic's forum states.
Update: There's still no exact time for when servers will be back online, but Epic has provided a slightly more in-depth explanation of what the problem is. We hope to get you back to playing soon." We'll report back with any further news on Fortnite's server status. It provides the same explanation found below along with some additional insight into where things stand: "While we can't give you an ETA when the servers will be back, we can tell you that we will make this right in regards to any time you have lost today. Update 2: Epic has provided another update, this time sharing a statement on Reddit.
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