Epic Games has updated the official social channels of its Fortnite Chapter 5 to confirm the arrival of the first major update Season 2, which will introduce a limited-time event. But before the update, the free game will go offline for a while.
According to what was declared by the development team, the battle royale servers (and other modes, including LEGO Fortnite and Rocket Racing) will be shut down starting from 9:00 am Italian time today, Tuesday 19 March 2024. As usual, matchmaking will be disabled half an hour before the start of maintenance: this is a necessary action so that all players who have started a game can complete it and no one has to find themselves in the position of having to interrupt a match due to the server shutdown.
The duration of the maintenance is unknown, but since it is a minor update it is likely that everything will be resolved within a few minutes a couple of hours. In any case, we cannot exclude the arrival of problems that will force this phase to be prolonged as happened in conjunction with the launch of Myths and Mortals.
For those curious to discover the contents of the patch in advance, we know that a timed event dedicated to is coming soon What. In addition to a new character skin coming to the store, the event features challenges with free rewards and a limited-time mode titled 'The Floor is Lava'. A new one should arrive too Thompson style submachine gun. This is information leaked thanks to dataminers and it cannot be ruled out that the event will offer slightly different content than that anticipated by users who have analyzed the game files.
While waiting to find out more, we remind you that on our pages you will find the details on when Season 2 of Fortnite Chapter 5, Myths and Mortals ends.