Fortnite is currently experiencing widespread login and server connection issues that Epic Games has acknowledged and is actively investigating, so the downtime is on their side, not yours. Similar outages lately have been caused either by problems discovered during updates or by broader online service disruptions affecting multiple games at once.

What’s happening

• Many players are reporting errors logging in, getting stuck on loading screens, or seeing “servers not responding” messages due to authentication and connection failures on Epic’s servers.

• Epic’s status updates indicate this is an unplanned outage tied to backend/login problems rather than routine scheduled maintenance.

What you can do

• Check the official Fortnite Status social accounts or the Epic Games status page for live updates on when servers will be back online.

• If those show a major ongoing issue, there is nothing to fix on your end; once Epic resolves the problem, you should be able to log in again without changing your settings.