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Epic Games first addressed the issues on Friday with a follow-up on Saturday while acknowledging the login and matchmaking problems. Tweets from the Fortnite Status account confirmed as much with the Epic Games Status site reflecting those comments.
“We are aware of an issue where players cannot log in, matchmake, or select a game in the Discover Lobby,” Epic Games said. “We are actively investigating it and will update this thread once we have more info.”
Logins specifically are marked as experiencing a “Partial Outage” right now while things are a bit more dire when it comes to matchmaking which is experiencing a “Major Outage.” Everything else seems to be working as intended, but considering how logging in and playing are the two key parts of Fortnite, the rest of the services don’t really matter in this case.
For those more geared towards competitive events, the EU Div 1 Finals have been delayed, Epic Games said. Those matches will have to be rescheduled to another date due to these issues, but we’re just waiting on more updates from Epic Games about the broader issues at this point.
The matchmaking problems come just after a big Item Shop refresh which finally added more Mortal Kombat characters to Fortnite. Even more big names like Negan from The Walking Dead are on the way, too, so hopefully all the matchmaking problems will be resolved between now and then so that players can actually use these new skins they got.
