The Fortnite game team announced the bad news on Twitter via the @FortniteStatus account. It has promised to keep players updated “as soon as more details are available.”
We appreciate everyone’s understanding as we worked to resolve these issues and we’ll have more details next week on what we’re doing to help you make up for lost time. pic.twitter.com/ruLmG4xHgk — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 29, 2021 However, the company describes the outage as a “major outage” on its website. The Epic Games Store is experiencing “poorer performance,” according to the same webpage. According to Epic’s Fortnite Status Twitter account, the online gameplay, which just entered Chapter 3 with substantial changes to the environment, has been causing issues for players logging in and looking for a match. When the systems initially dropped, the Epic Games launcher doesn’t even try to start Fortnite, indicating that the servers were down, but it would later try again. Unfortunately, after launching, it simply put you on waiting for ten minutes or so and then failed to connect, as many players have reported and experienced.
