Update: Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 should now be live, but servers are still down on Friday afternoon due to earlier issues with the new season’s patch being deployed Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The official Fortnite Status account on X/Twitter has now revealed that players can “pre-download an updated version” of the game later around 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET. This doesn’t seem to clearly say the game itself will be playable at that time, just that the latest patch will be downloadable, so it may be later than that when you finally get to play. Whenever it returns online, brace for long queue times, too.