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Fortnite down as Epic gears up for Season 8 – here’s when they’re back
AFTER another explosive Fortnite season finale, the servers are down once again for a hefty update.
The Fortnite Season 7 Operation Sky Fire, one time event played out over the weekend and now players are eagerly awaiting the next chapter.
Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 8
If you missed the end of Fortnite Season 7, you can watch the full in-game event on the Fortnite YouTube channel.
The TL;DR version is that players were sent to the Mothership to set off a bunch of bombs and destroy it.
It turns out that Kevin the Cube was on board, causing Dr. Slone to bail and leave the infiltration party to their doom.
Amidst the chaos, the giant cube is turned blue by players (from its ‘evil’ purple incarnation), but that doesn’t help much as there are tons of purple cubes on board as it turns out.
A huge explosion sends everything hurtling back towards the island, and now it’s littered with cubey carnage.
The servers went down after the event and are due to go live within the next few hours, ushering in Fortnite Season 8.
The new season is set to go live today, Monday, September 13. Downtime started last night.
According to the official Fortnite server status, it’s still ongoing, but we’re expecting the game to be back up and running in the next few hours.
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Maintenance began at 11pm PT / 2am ET / 7am BST / 8am CEST. Fortnite should be live again by 5am PT / 8am EST / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST, all being well.
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