After officially announcing the update 22.10 release date for Fortnite, Epic Games has made the surprise decision to take the game offline early. Fortnite was originally due to be taken offline at 9am BST on October 4. Unfortunately, however, after spotting an issue with the new update, Epic has decided to shut down the servers ahead of schedule. This means Fortnite will likely remain offline for around 12 hours!
Unless something changes during the night, Fortnite will be offline from now until around 10-11am BST UK time on Tuesday morning.
Epic hasn’t detailed the problem with the new update, revealing only that it has spotted an issue ahead of its release.
“Due to an issue, we are entering downtime early. Update 22.10 will still release tomorrow October 4th,” Epic explains. “We’ll let you all know when downtime has ended!”
The update should be available to download and install at 9am BST on October 4, so check back for all the latest leaks and developments.
Anybody attempting to login now will be greeted by the following message: “You do not have permission to play Fortnite.”
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