Fortnite Party Feature Currently Not Working, Epic Planning Fix Later Today

With PSN being down yesterday, it at first seemed as though Fortnite was one of the games affected. In Fortnite's case, however, it seems as though it's a larger issue, the game's servers are still down, will be a for a little while.

Yesterday, players were unable to log into the game across all platforms, which Epic acknowledged on its official Twitter.

We’re getting reports of players having issues logging in across all platforms. We hear you and are aware of this problem. Work is being done now to find a solution for this. Updates will be available once we have more information. Thanks for sticking with us!

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 26, 2018

A few hours later, the issue seemed to be resolved after Epic released a patch addressing the issue, which was introduced with the latest 2.3.0. update.

Success! We’re going to be releasing a patch at 4am ET(9am GMT) to fix some of these bugs that were introduced with V.2.3.0. There won't be any downtime. Full details on what’s being fixed: https://t.co/3nooeLicrn

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 27, 2018

A couple of hours after the update released, players were still unable to join parties across all platforms. Epic has now decided to take the game offline. "Fortnite has had another big bump in player count this week and we were not prepared for it," Epic said in a statement on Reddit. "We will likely be taking Fortnite offline for a while so we can work through this. We'll let you know when that will happen. We will update you soon on the next steps." Shortly after, the company released an updated statement announcing Fortnite's party service was offline, and that online, single-player modes were the only ones available.

The Fortnite party service is down, and Solo and Fill are the only modes available. Players should expect downtime to fix the problem later today.

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 27, 2018

We will update this story once the servers are back up (hopefully) later today.

 

Our Take
For whatever reason, I'm continually surprised by the increasing popularity of Fortnite. Of course, Epic could have just pivoted its server issues as one of those "good problems."

from www.GameInformer.com - The Feed http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2018/01/27/fortnite-party-feature-currently-not-working-epic-planning-fix-later-today.aspx