Epic Games has the daunting task of maintaining one of the world\u2019s most popular battle royales. But Fortnite<\/em>, despite its increasing popularity, isn\u2019t without its issues. Catering to over 100 million players certainly isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>
The game often goes down for maintenance, especially when a new chapter, season, or patch launches.\u00a0For example, Fortnite<\/a> <\/em>was expected to go down around 2am CT on March 8, 2024, to prepare for the Chapter Five, season two update<\/a>. When the servers go down, you can experience errors like the LS-0016 error code<\/a> as you try to log in.<\/p>
The servers will likely be down while Epic works to get everything up and running, but they should be up and running by around 4 or 5am CT<\/a>. Having said that, Fortnite<\/em> could be facing any number of issues at any time. The servers are usually operational, but not always. There\u2019s also scheduled downtime to bear in mind, which usually takes place every Tuesday, but unforeseeable outages also regularly occur.\u00a0<\/p>