Fortnite player count sets 2024 record as new season launches, despite lengthy downtime

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2, titled Myths and Mortals was launched final Friday, on March 8 2024, and though it wasn’t a clean intro to followers, a brand new file was hit quickly after.

Within the early afternoon of the next day (March 9) a peak of 5,152,863 gamers was recorded through the depend tracker Fortnite.gg. This marks the best variety of individuals in 2024 up to now, with the final time the 5 million mark was reached being in December 2023.

Though it is a win for Fortnite creators Epic Video games, the group confronted substantial points within the lead-up and within the hours after the supposed ‘launch.’

At 7:14 am, we reported the devs took to X to alert users of an ‘unexpected issue’ that resulted within the server being down. They apologized for ‘making everybody wait longer than traditional to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale.’

Hey everybody, we encountered an surprising subject throughout our upkeep and we have to lengthen downtime not less than 8 extra hours.

We apologize for making everybody wait longer than traditional to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale. The group is working via this as… pic.twitter.com/gsu79mGMiJ

— Fortnite Standing (@FortniteStatus) March 8, 2024

In the long run, the servers have been down for nearly a whole day. At 9 pm CT on March 10, the servers have been capable of be opened and the queue started.

Some players saw crashing issues and issues with texture on display, however the majority of the issues have been solved in the course of the downtime.

On the preliminary launch day, a blog post was published on the Fortnite web site to share extra particulars together with the unlocked places that followers can expertise like Mount Olympus, Grim Gate, The Underworld, and Brawler’s Battleground.

They go on to explain the brand new addition intimately, by saying “Pandora’s Field has been opened on the Fortnite Battle Royale Island, bringing Olympus to the battlefield.

“Olympian legends – together with Hades and the thunder god Zeus – now rule the island in otherworldly rage. To make issues worse, they’ve introduced their powers and weapons with them. Use their mythological means towards them in Chapter 5 Season 2: Myths & Mortals!”

Response to launch of Chapter 5 Season 2

Within the hours of downtime, followers of Fortnite took to X and Reddit to ask the group to be faster.

One consumer stated: ‘what am I gonna do with my life…’ whereas one other stated ‘ATLEAST 8 HOURS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I DONT WANNA BE RUDE BUT THIS IS SO UNHEARD OF WHAAAAAAAAT.’

ATLEAST 8 HOURS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I DONT WANNA BE RUDE BUT THIS IS SO UNHEARD OF WHAAAAAAAAT

— Merl (@Merl) March 8, 2024

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