Independent website down time detecting website outage.report shows that several players are unable to login into the game. Epic games has confirmed that they are currently undergoing downtime to unblock a small number of players who were affected by a recent backend service update which caused login and matchmaking issues.

Once downtime has concluded, we will post an update. — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 25, 2018 As of now it is not known till when the services will be up and running properly, but the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented, confirmed Epic games. Update: Downtime has now finished and all players are now unblocked. If console players are facing crash issues while trying to login, relaunching should resolve the issue.

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