‘Fortnite’ offline and new chapter delayed resulting from “surprising points”

Epic Video games’ battle royale Fortnite is at present experiencing some unprecedented downtown after points with a brand new replace.

Fortnite’s Chapter 5 Season 2 replace was resulting from launch this morning (March 8) following a few hours of deliberate downtime. Nevertheless, the replace has but to launch and Fortnite continues to be offline.

Taking to social media, Epic Video games defined: “Hey everybody, we encountered an surprising problem throughout our upkeep and we have to lengthen downtime at the very least 8 extra hours.” Which means Fortnite received’t be on-line till 10pm GMT on the earliest.

“We apologise for making everybody wait longer than standard to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale,” it continued. “The staff is working by this as rapidly as potential, and we’ll present one other replace when we’ve got extra data.”

Hey everybody, we encountered an surprising problem throughout our upkeep and we have to lengthen downtime at the very least 8 extra hours.

We apologize for making everybody wait longer than standard to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale. The staff is working by this as… pic.twitter.com/gsu79mGMiJ

— Fortnite Standing (@FortniteStatus) March 8, 2024

The highly-anticipated Myths & Mortals replace was teased final week in the course of the stunning big hand occasion, and earlier right this moment Epic Video games shared simply what was in retailer in the course of the Chapter 5 Season 2 replace.

In addition to the standard tournaments and bug fixes, Myths & Monsters will see the Fortnite island reworked to characteristic a number of key areas from Greek fantasy – together with Mount Olympus and the Hades-controlled Underworld.

“Pandora’s Field has been opened on the Fortnite Battle Royale Island, bringing Olympus to the battlefield. Olympian legends — together with Hades and the thunder god Zeus — now rule the Island in otherworldly rage. To make issues worse, they’ve introduced their powers and weapons with them,” stated Epic in a devoted weblog publish, with gamers inspired to “use their mythological means towards them.”

Weapons just like the Thunderbolt Of Zeus, which permits gamers to rise into the air and hurl lightning bolts at their goal, and the Wings Of Icarus, giving gamers the ability of flight earlier than they divebomb their foes, may even be launched. One other energy – Chains Of Hades – will likely be launched as a part of a future replace.

In different information, Elite Harmful gamers have teamed-up to take down the primary of eight seemingly-invincible warships often called Titans in a week-long battle.