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Fortnite Suffers Major Outage as Epic Confirms Login and Matchmaking Failures

Epic says engineers are investigating with no estimate for restoration.

Overview

  • Player complaints spiked on Wednesday, first in North America and then worldwide, according to outage trackers such as Downdetector.
  • Login attempts failed across PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, leaving many unable to reach the lobby.
  • Some users who did sign in reported matchmaking queues that never moved or errors saying the game could not connect to servers.
  • Epic’s status updates also reported login problems for Epic Games Store, Rocket League, Fall Guys and the Developer Portal.
  • The disruption trended widely as no timeline was provided for fixes during a busy Thanksgiving gaming period.