Fortnite Servers Pulled for Downtime in Order to Bring “Day of Doom” Mode via Patch 31.20

The next major update for Fortnite is about to drop today (September 17)! Before that happens, Epic Games needs to pull down the servers for a few hours in order to roll out the latest patch 31.20 on all platforms.

Downtime begins at 4 am ET/1 am PT/4 pm HKT per the announcement, and we are expecting the servers to be down for a few hours (servers should be back up around 6 am ET/3 am PT/6 pm HKT).

Players can expect a new wave of LEGO content in the game, the Day of the Doom limited-time mode (LTM) and more. You can check out the trailer for the Lost Isles LEGO content incoming later today:

For Day of Doom, here’s what Epic Games had to say about it:

Join the ultimate battle between good and evil. Up to 32 players. Two teams: Doom’s Henchmen and Allies of the Avengers. Tomorrow!

Doom’s Henchmen: your goal is to collect all six Arcane Artifacts. Once you’ve collected them all, your adversaries will no longer be able to respawn. Eliminate every hero and you’ll emerge victorious!

Avengers: your goal is to take down Doom’s forces before they collect the Artifacts. Doom’s Henchmen have a large number of respawns altogether — reach victory once you + your fellow Avengers have depleted all their reinforcements.

If there’s any changes to the downtime, we’ll be sure to update the article. As for the new Fortnite patch, expect it to drop the moment downtime starts, and we’ll provide a link out to it once the complete patch notes are available.

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