Fortnite Down on April 8 for a Few Hours to Bring v34.30 Patch
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Can’t matchmake in Fortnite? It’s not a server outage, but the game’s servers being pulled down temporarily on April 8 to bring the v34.30 patch to gamers.
Same with every Fortnite planned downtime, this maintenance period will take a few hours to complete on all platforms.
Fortnite Servers Are Down on April 8? It’s for a New Patch
Update: Here are the patch notes for v34.30!
According to Epic, servers will go down starting 4 am ET/1 am PT/4 pm HKT. While it’s not specified how long the downtime is, it’s usually 2-3 hours, though it’s sometimes longer.
The downtime is the initiated to bring the v34.30 patch that brings Sabrina Carpenter to the game and more. While the actual patch notes aren’t available yet, here’s some of the info we have right now courtesy of the devs.
What players can expect from v34.30:
- Sabrina Carpenter in Fortnite Festival starting in Season 8 kicking off today
- Season 8 Music Pass
- New free rewards
- Premium rewards
- New items in the in-game shop (Tour-Ready Sabrinca Carpenter and more)
- New emotes
- Later in the season, Jam Track additions
- Tune Up gets improvements
- Starting in Season 8, Outfits players favorited in their Locker will be added to the random mix of bandmates who can fill in for your band onstage
- Fortnite Festival Season 8 content creator
There’s more to that, but that’s a rough overview of what to expect. Once the patch notes are out, we’ll add it to the article.
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