Fortnite down: update 28.20 is coming – when will the servers be back up today (February 7)

FORTNITE players won’t be able to play the game this morning, February 7, 2024, and many are wondering when the servers will be back.

Fortnite servers are down at the moment for maintenance, to deploy update 28.20 into the game.

Why is Fortnite down?

Fortnite updates require several hours of downtime to release into the game, and right now servers are down to launch v28.20.

Apart from general fixes, the new update will also kick off the TMNT event, which is due to start properly on Friday, February 9, 2024.

Players were expecting update 28.20 to come yesterday, but developers Epic Games had different plans this time.

As usual, Epic Games has warned everyone about the downtime in advance.

Calling the update “lean, mean, and green”, Fortnite’s official Twitter/X accounts once again teased the addition of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the game.

Matchmaking in Fortnite was disabled 30 minutes before update deployment started this morning.

Proper downtime for patch 28.20 began at 9am UK time / 4am ET.

Here’s Epic Games’ post on the warning about the upcoming downtime:

Outage report aggregator is another good place to get up-to-date information on Fortnite’s server availability.

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