Fortnite Epic Games’ smash hit Battle Royale is offline and inaccessible to play as it shifts from Chapter 2 Season 8 — which ended on Saturday, Dec. 4 — to Chapter 3 of the always-updated game.
It’s unclear when Fortnite will return from its post-season maintenance mode, but based on the ending of “Chapter 1” of the game (when the map was sucked into a black hole), it might be hours before players return to Epic’s murder island.
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When Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who plays The Foundation in the game, saved Jonesy, the Fortnite island flipped over, releasing a tremendous tidal wave and ushering in a whole new terrain on which to drop, construct, shoot, and live, Chapter 2 came to a close on Saturday.
For the time being, Fortnite gamers who are fortunate enough to be able to log into Fortnite (which isn’t many) will only be able to see their character floating in the middle of the ocean because the servers are still down.
It remains to be seen what Fortnite Chapter 3 will bring to the battle-royale hit, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary next year. When we have more information, we will update this page.
