As of December 5, 2025, Fortnite was offline across platforms after Epic Games flagged an incident affecting relayed connections on its status page. Players attempting to load matches on PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and mobile saw failures to connect or intermittent disconnects. Epic’s status dashboard lists the problem as “Issue with relayed connections” and links the fault to Cloudflare behavior that is affecting routing and matchmaking. The incident entry is the clearest public signal Epic has provided so far about why players cannot join games.
Reports and error messages were consistent across regions. The outage note did not include a timetable for restoration, and Epic had not posted an estimated time to recovery on the status page when the incident was listed. If Epic posts maintenance or rollback windows, the status page will show those updates. Fortnite regularly takes servers offline for multi-hour maintenance when content branches change, such as season swaps and live events. That pattern explains some planned downtimes, as an earlier forced downtime after the Zero Point event and how Epic handled that switch and the in-game timer players saw.
Players who want a quick read on whether the outage is unscheduled should check Epic’s status page and the Fortnite social feeds. Official channels to watch include Epic’s status dashboard, the Fortnite X account, and the FortniteStatus X account. Community posts on Discord and Reddit provided player-side confirmation of connection failures as the incident unfolded.
Basic troubleshooting steps for a relayed-connection fault: restart the game client, reboot the console or phone, and test a wired connection on PC where possible. Those actions won’t fix a back-end Cloudflare routing issue, but they will remove local variables and make it easier to tell if the problem persists server-side. Console PC Gaming will update this post if Epic changes the incident entry or posts an ETA. For context on how Epic has handled full shutdowns tied to major events in recent weeks, see the site report on the Zero Point outage and the Chapter 7 Hush boss location guide for what players were expecting when servers went offline.
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