Fortnite is down for the last major maintenance update of the year – when will it be back and what’s in the new patch?

We covered the rather saddening arrival of the Skibidi Toilet meme into Fortnite earlier today along with how to get your hands on it, but if you are trying right now you won’t be able to get into the game as the Fortnite servers are currently down for maintenance. But when will it be back and what’s new in this last major change before the Holidays? Let’s find out.

Downtime started at 7 AM ET / 12 PM GMT – so around an hour ago at the time of writing and as yet there is no indication of how long it will be offline. Previously when Epic has run into trouble downtime has run on longer than anybody would like, but fingers crossed things will be a bit more routine for update 33.11

This is an unusual time and date for a Fortnite update, we have no recollection of an early Wednesday morning patch before, so maybe it is just Epic trying something new at a lower traffic period, and it could become the norm going forward. We will have to wait and see.

Downtime for v33.11 begins at 7 AM ET with matchmaking ending shortly beforehand. pic.twitter.com/JjSzPEM3sM

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 17, 2024

In the absence of any real patch notes just yet we expect the aforementioned Skibidi Toilet stuff to arrive – can’t wait, no seriously. Also preparations for Winterfest this year which launches in a couple of days time are tucked away in there.

Indeed a lot of the new stuff won’t be instantly apparent and will wait until Winterfest 2024 starts before unlocking. We can expect to see new items such as wind grenades and ice skates as well as the usually free skins we get at this time of year.

We will update this page if the update takes longer than usual or when Epic Games releases the final patch notes for update 33.11

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