Fortnite server status has been mostly online since the game’s launch in 2017. Moreover, Epic Games has maintained the title’s relevance on multiple platforms by regularly rolling out new updates. The developers push new versions/patches, minor updates, or fixes more frequently than most other popular games, but Fortnite servers also go down according to the rollout schedules.
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Fortnite servers typically remain online without encountering many issues. However, they can go unresponsive when Epic Games decides to release another update or any other issues arise from developers’ or users’ ends. In such cases, players can easily determine whether the developers have taken down the game using some methods in the following section.
- Update: At the time of writing, Fortnite servers are working fine.
Fortnite Servers Down: How To Check Fortnite Server Status
As mentioned above, the scheduled maintenance breaks when Epic Games rolls out Fortnite updates are the key reason the servers are down. There can be other issues behind Fortnite servers being offline, but if developers have taken down the game, users can check the status as follows:
Epic Games Server Status Site
The official Epic Games’ server status web page lets the users find out about the Fortnite server status and many other games and services. The page will display everything in green if all the games and services are online. However, if players face performance issues, the color showcased on the website will be yellow (reduced operationality or efficiency) or red (if devs have taken Fortnite servers down).
Only Fortnite’s official website will remain online if the game servers are down (under maintenance). However, even if the game is not currently under maintenance, Epic Games’ server status page will let the players know about the recent reports of outages from the developers’ end or schedules of maintenance breaks during previous update rollouts.
Fortnite Status Twitter Account
It is clear now that scheduled maintenance breaks are among the primary reasons Epic Games takes Fortnite servers down. If the developers plan to roll out a patch or a fix, typically on Tuesdays, the game’s “official Twitter account for server status updates,” Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus), will notify the players with an announcement tweet.
Besides notifying about the downtime schedule for the game servers, @FortniteStatus also tweets about the prevalent issues players face while launching the game. Therefore players can follow the said Twitter account to get updates about Fortnite server status, new updates, ongoing errors/outage issues, and more.
Downdetector
Unlike the two methods listed above, Downdetector is not an official way to check the server status. However, players can still consider the website for recent outages and real-time server status. Downdetector will typically showcase a spike in outage reports from the users if the devs or any other issues take Fortnite servers down unplanned.
Players can find Fortnite’s page on the Downdetector website here, but they must also note that the reports will not always be accurate. Moreover, the website is not official, so users must always rely on Epic Games or Fortnite server status Twitter account and website to get precise information about recent outages.
Suppose all of the above methods indicate that Fortnite servers are online. In that case, players can consider restarting their game and rebooting their router/modem while killing off all the programs running in the background. If the issues persist, players can consider contacting Epic Games support. However, if the problem is prevalent among the other users, players can wait for the game servers to return online.
