Fortnite: Battle Royale Dev Tracker

If we have your email on file and you haven't opted out, you should get one. If you opted out of emails when you made your account, you probably wouldn't get one. I'm 95% sure :) The company we use to send the emails handles that for us.

Probably not this round, we generated all the lists and data last week. But we plan one continuing this and getting more interesting stats in! So there will be more in the future!

All games are counted

If you played at least 10 games you should get one. There were a lot to send, so they may still be going out :)

This is a backend services update, so there will be nothing to download on your end.

Thanks for the patience here folks. Sorry for the interruption.

Fix for the issue here has been deployed and we are watching for full recovery. Initial signs are positive. Our login queue isn't too large atm, so we should have you all back in the Battle Bus real soon!

We're going to have improvements for this live with 1.9.

We're changing the defaults to something we find acceptable and that solves the issues that players are seeing now.

We also have console aim assist improvements coming soon as well.

For a little additional context here:

• The impact on the main backend service that got thrashed today is basically 0/12/72 ratio for Solo/Duos/Squads respectively.
• If we disabled Duos instead of Squads, we most likely would have increased the problem, due to people hopping over to Squads mode and we would have knocked things back over.
• We are hoping to have Squads re-enabled in the next few hours.
• We are going to swap back to Solos and Squads only in OCE/Asia/Brazil for now. This allows the most play flexibility and we are constantly evaluating for when we can have all 3 modes enabled in each region as these regions continue to grow.

We need to get this patch rolled out across our platforms, measure the gains in terms of lowering the impact to the backend/database, then we'll figure out when to get Squads turned back on.

We want squads back on ASAP, but we don't want the whole game to fall over.

That is super strange and unexpected. Can you please use the in-game bug report tool? (this sends us logs, which you can't do manually on Xbox)

This mission should work now.

:P

TL;DR: thank you devs for being open with the players even though we probably don’t deserve it.

Of course you deserve it. Without you, we don't have a successful game to be worried about in the first place. Thanks for hanging in there with us while we grow!

We seem to be healthy at this point, except for the fact that Squads is disabled of course. We are working to get a client patch out ASAP that should reduce load to our backend/database, then we'll measure performance gains, and hopefully re-enable Squads at some point tomorrow.

Sorry for the wild Saturday - thanks for hanging in there with us.

Also sorry if I totally threaded all of these replies wrong here - lots of juggling going on :)

Today is the day of endless Fortnitemares for sure.

We are digging into a new issue with our login service - which is what folks are reporting as basically failing entirely to log in. Retrying may help. We are actively trying to resolve this atm.

We believe this may be secondary fallout from the flux of repeated logins due to the ongoing problems today and issues with sessions cleaning up as a result. We are working on this, sorry for the shenanigans one after the other.

Login Queues are almost totally drained again. If you have an obscenely long wait time atm, please try re-launching your client. (Edit - they are on their way to being totally drained. May still take 15-30 minutes to be totally drained, sorry for jumping the gun)

We can only backfill during downtime, so we will get them in with the next patch