As announced in the past few hours, starting at eight this morning, Tuesday 13 April, Fortnite will be offline to allow the update 16.20. epic Games it will shut down the servers to allow developers to publish the new update and perform the usual maintenance operations. According to the latest rumors, this new update should be really juicy, as it will introduce the possibility of modify vehicles, and a new tournament: the lantern festival.
Downtime for v16.20 has begun. We'll let you all know when downtime has ended and services are back up.
As a reminder, the patch will be released for download a few hours into downtime. pic.twitter.com/brG8ZJ2hrx
- Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) April 13, 2021
Are you ready for some new and exciting challenges? The Lantern Festival kicks off on April 13 with a variety of activities including lanterns, community challenges, heroism, a special locker bundle, and more!
epic Games it did not specify the time the servers will be offline, but the maintenance it should last between two and three hours, this means that by mid-morning the game should be fully operational again. Surely, by lunchtime the servers will be back online with the possibility to download the new update. It seems in fact that the main content of the update are the new wheels, which can be applied through the new crafting system to the various cars to allow them to move more easily on the dirt road.
Among the other innovations we also find a new tournament for pairs based on bows and the possibility of finding 50-player matches in Creative mode via matchmaking. Also awaited news for Save the world and Creative Mode, as usual, however, Epic has not unbalanced itself on the new contents arriving, but we will certainly know more in a very few hours. We just have to wait a little longer to discover all the interesting news of this update. As soon as Fortnite is no longer offline, update 16.20 will be ready to be installed, kicking off the new lantern festival tournament, which we are sure will give life to memorable clashes with all our friends.
