EPIC GAMES has confirmed that Fortnite servers are down for some fans tonight, with core services affected by the outage.
Fortnite servers are down tonight, with Epic Games providing the latest information on what is causing the matchmaking and sign-in issues.
According to the latest report from the support team, Fortnite servers are down for some gamers tonight, and the problems are being looked into.
However, these issues were first flagged several hours ago, and there has been no word or ETA on how long it will take to bring servers back online and functioning normally.
Gamers affected by tonight's outage are reporting problems accessing their account, signing in and finding active games to join, with matchmaking also affected.
The latest information from Epic Games explains: "Fortnite is currently unavailable, and players are unable to log in while we investigate an issue.
Fortnite is currently unavailable and players are unable to log-in while we investigate an issue.
We'll provide more info when we have a solution to bring services back online.
Fortnite players can rest assured that the issue is being resolved as soon as possible and they will be able to get back to the game soon. Players can continue grinding the battle pass for XP and unlocking rewards like Spider-Man, the Foundation and more once it is fixed.
Fortnite has fully been taken offline while they try to fix server issues. https://t.co/CBBOnA83Ms
— iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) December 29, 2021
Update-
After 2 hour of server offline finally it's back.
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Also keep in mind, just because the servers come back online doesn't mean the issues with login in are instantly gone, it seems right now most players will be stuck in a queue.
As a reminder in the past you could make it past the queue by relaunching the game at ~30 seconds left ads