Epic Games Goes down ahead of Fortnite Simpsons season, takes down all login services too

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After a 5 hour scheduled downtime on just Fortnite for the launch of the Simpson collaboration on the 1st of November, the whole ecosystem went crashing down. Without login services, many of the games just cannot be played. This together with the IBM, Azure, AWS and Cloudflare crashes shows just how vulnerable you are when you are dependent on megalithic giants…
Nov 2, 2025
Various Fortnite Functionality Issues
Resolved – This incident has been resolved.
Nov 2, 03:20 UTC
Update – We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Nov 1, 21:08 UTC
Investigating – We’re investigating reports of players loading into matches without equipped Outfits, as well as other functionality issues like Locker loadouts, Party invites, and Friends Lists not working correctly.
We’re working to fix this ASAP and will let you know when we have.
Nov 1, 21:07 UTC
Fortnite Login Issues
Resolved – This incident has been resolved.
Nov 2, 03:20 UTC
Investigating – We’re investigating Fortnite login issues on all platforms. We’ll follow up here with an update once the issue is resolved.
Nov 1, 20:45 UTC
Fall Guys Login Issues
Resolved – This incident has been resolved.
Nov 2, 03:20 UTC
Investigating – We’re investigating Fall Guys login issues on all platforms.

We’ll follow up here with an update once the issue is resolved.
Nov 1, 21:35 UTC

Epic Games Store Login Issues
Resolved – This incident has been resolved.
Nov 2, 03:19 UTC
Investigating – We are currently investigating this issue.
Nov 1, 22:02 UTC
Rocket League Login Issues
Resolved – This incident has been resolved.
Nov 2, 03:19 UTC
Investigating – We’re investigating Rocket League login issues on all platforms.

We’ll follow up here with an update once the issue is resolved.
Nov 1, 21:27 UTC

Nov 1, 2025
Fortnite: Downtime for v38.00 Update
Completed – The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Nov 1, 20:43 UTC
In progress – Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Nov 1, 15:30 UTC
Scheduled – ⏰ Following the Welcome, Our Alien Overlords live event in Fortnite (Saturday, November 1st at 11 AM ET), Fortnite will go into downtime at 11:30 AM ET (3:30 PM UTC). The v38.00 update and the new Fortnite Season will release later the same day.
Oct 31, 15:07 UTC

Source: Epic Games Public Status

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