Epic Games has taken the Fortnite servers down for standard maintenance this October 10, and this is to roll out the v26.30 patch. Read on for the schedule and the planned outage today.

Fortnite Down for Server Maintenance Schedule for October 10:

Here’s the announcement from Epic Games regarding today’s downtime:

A little bit scary, and a lot of fun… 🎃

v26.30 downtime begins at 3 AM ET, and matchmaking will be disabled shortly beforehand. pic.twitter.com/S05SMADb16

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) October 9, 2023

A little bit scary, and a lot of fun… 🎃

v26.30 downtime begins at 3 AM ET, and matchmaking will be disabled shortly beforehand.

While there is no specific hours listed as to how long this will maintenance will take, it shouldn’t be longer than 2-3 hours if past maintenance periods are anything to go by.

Same as before, once the patch is live, we’ll provide a link out to the patch notes and datamined content. If the scheduled downtime changes, or gets extended, we’ll be sure to update the article with the info as well.

You can see the patch notes for Fortnite by clicking here and here.