If you’re having a hard time connecting to Fortnite or seeing matchmaking issues, it’s not just you, as Epic Games has taken the Fortnite servers down this December 19, and this is for standard maintenance where we will also see a patch be released.

Fortnite Down for Server Maintenance Schedule for December 19:

Here’s the announcement from Epic Games:

Start: 4 am ET/1 am PT/5 pm HKT

End: Not specified, but usually it takes two hours and maintenance ends at 6 am ET/3 am PT/7pm HKT

New patch incoming!

Tomorrow's patch hits key areas that we want to address before our next content update.

Downtime will start at 4:00 AM ET, with matchmaking being disabled shortly beforehand. pic.twitter.com/7OMPP9Qa8T

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 18, 2023

New patch incoming!

Tomorrow’s patch hits key areas that we want to address before our next content update.

Downtime will start at 4:00 AM ET, with matchmaking being disabled shortly beforehand

As you can see, there is a patch set for release during this downtime. Same as always, we here at MP1st will have it up along with the patch notes and datamined info. Bookmark our Fortnite game hub to know once it’s live.

If there are any changes to the scheduled outage, we’ll update the article to reflect it, as well as provide a link out to the patch once it’s live.

You can check out the patch notes for the game clicking here and here.