Fortnite stays down, and whereas there have been some updates, none have been correct or definitive. Clearly one thing has gone very, very incorrect behind the scenes and Epic Video games doesn’t have a strong timetable on a repair.
Initially, the sport writer knowledgeable players that the replace can be accessible early Friday morning. At round 9 am ET they up to date that to an 8 hour delay. That might put the Season 2 launch at round 4 pm ET.
That was up to date once more at round 4 pm ET with one other replace that states:
We’re persevering with the work to deliver Fortnite again on-line. Gamers will be capable of pre-download an up to date model of v29.00 in roughly 5 hours.
We’re grateful on your endurance and may’t wait for everybody to have the ability to bounce in.
The important thing bit on this assertion will not be that the sport can be stay in 5 hours (or in three hours from the time of this posting) however that the pre-download for the brand new season will turn into accessible then. That signifies that round 9pm ET gamers can obtain the replace however that does not imply that the servers will go stay. It’s attainable that you just’ll be capable of play the sport the second it’s downloaded, however it’s additionally attainable that the sport can be down for hours after you’re in a position to pre-load the replace.
At this level, we simply don’t know. It’s not fairly as insane because the black gap that when devoured Fortnite for days, however it’s nonetheless an incredibly lengthy downtime for a sport that nearly by no means has this sort of prolonged, unplanned server outage.
Many followers are clamoring for compensation. I believe that’s fairly foolish in the case of a sport you don’t really must pay to play, personally. You need a free Battle Move or free V-Bucks since you needed to wait a bit longer for an replace? How about as a substitute of that, you go play one thing else. There are a plethora of different video games to play. Broaden your horizons, younger padawans.
(Although I do suppose Epic Video games ought to prolong an olive department to its gamers—fairly actually an olive department pickaxe. It could not solely be humorous, it could match the Greek mythology theme fairly completely. You may have that totally free, Epic).
Keep tuned. This may very well be down quite a bit longer or come again any minute. I’ll be on Warzone.