Server issues have returned to Fortnite matchmaking services today.
Epic Games have confirmed that some of the game’s core services are currently down, with the support team investigating.
“We’re experiencing an issue with our matchmaking services,” Epic Games posted to Twitter.
“To help relieve some pressure we’ve applied a cooldown in between matches and temporarily disabled the Squad playlist for the High Explosives LTM.
“We’ve temporarily disabled matchmaking while we continue to investigate this issue and get a fix applied.”
Epic Games haven’t confirmed what is causing the problems today, although we do know that the game has become very popular.
It’s also available on a number of platforms, meaning a lot of players could be signing in around this time globally
The official Fortnite Server Status page currently rates today’s outage as major, meaning it could be a while before the game is back online.
It should be noted that following big outages like this, Epic Games usually looks to apply matchmaking Queues in place.
This is to help bring the Fortnite servers back online and avoid any further outages.
Today saw a new content added to the game, as well as a new patch being released on PS4.
It’s unclear if any of these problem has added to the server issues facing players on the affected platforms.
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One of the big new features added to Fortnite this week includes the Vending Machines that can now be found across the island.
Fortnite players will be able to trade in spare materials in return for weapons thanks to the new Battle Royale feature.
The vending machines will be popping up across the Fortnite Battle Royale map, with each one offering three different things.
Rarities, items and different deals will all be chosen at random.
That makes for an enticing offer for many players, who can find themselves with a lot of leftover materials.
There’s also the debate over whether it’s worth stocking up on supplies for the final run, or whether you should trade them in at the new Vending Machines.
As some of the new artwork shows, Fortnite fans can trade in 500 Wood for the chance of getting a missile launcher.
