Fortnite suffered a major outage on Friday: players were no longer able to connect at all

[Article mis à jour le 14 juin 2024 à 18h01] It was just before the start of the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS) this Friday that the Epic Games game crashed. Players were no longer able to connect to it.

It was blowing like a wind of panic this Friday afternoon in the Fortnite community. Reports were reported by the thousands all over the world over several tens of minutes, each time with the same message: it is impossible to connect to the game. But then what happened? As for the teams of the game developed by Epic Games, communication was laconic. But a decision was quickly made.

Fortnite, the breakdown before the weekend

This Friday afternoon, Fortnite was down. On the game’s maintenance site, we could see that the Login and Matchmaking parts were undergoing a ” major breakdown », fortunately resolved in a definitive manner, since 5:45 p.m.

What is certain is that those who tried to connect to the game since the start of the outage were no longer able to do so. And connecting players to compete also no longer worked.

Epic Games makes a radical decision for FNCS

On the Epic Games side, we wrote around 5 p.m. “ investigate an error that prevents players from connecting “, while promising that an update will be provided once the problem is resolved. Which is now done.

The Fortnite teams, who were scheduled to kick off the FNCS today, announced “ delay ME FNCS and other ME cuts by 30 minutes ”, due to this incident.

It is unknown to what extent Epic’s servers were affected, nor what is the cause of this major outage. What is certain is that the incident concerned, for example, both France and the United States.