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Fortnite Faces Major Outages After Latest Update

7/15/2025

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Fortnite faced major server disruptions on Tuesday following a scheduled update (v36.20) that kicked off at 3 a.m. CST. By 9:30 a.m., over 850 players reported outages. Epic Games announced an extended downtime, assuring fans they were diligently working to resolve the issues, just a day after fixing previous matchmaking glitches.

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Fortnite faced major server disruptions on Tuesday following a scheduled update (v36.20) that kicked off at 3 a.m. CST. By 9:30 a.m., over 850 players reported outages. Epic Games announced an extended downtime, assuring fans they were diligently working to resolve the issues, just a day after fixing previous matchmaking glitches.