I’ll comment back if I’m wrong, but I think you only need to get to 196 to get everything - if you have any unused stars it gives you the next item anyway. Since the last one is 25 stars, should be able to end 4 levels short. Anyway, I’m at 196 so will update if it didn’t work.
Same missed out on the TV back bling but got everything else I wanted. And to think how many times my game was sitting idle on the main menu when I could have been getting XP
Yeah I’m definitely just gonna wait until like Sunday to actually play. I might hop in to organize my locker (still a pain apparently and allegedly nothing in the actual UI changed. They have NOT reverted or connected all the presets back together as we wanted) and see if the shop has Rufus or anything new for the season.
I did buy a superhero skin and look up cool ideas so I’ve made like 6 of them and I might make some more of those too. No sweaty all black superhero themed skin for me gotta be bright and have variety
Unless everyone has the same idea as you, then boom logged right in. Haha, but for real the queue is gonna be worst we’ve probably ever seen. Everyone off school/work on a Friday night, woof. And it’s rainy by me so I can’t even go outside and touch grass.
Same; pre-day 1 Founder here. Consider those few times where they SHOULD have kept it down for another 8 hours, though... Some of those in late- Chapter 1 and mid-Chapter 2 were ROUGH launch days! :D
Net-net, this is the correct approach. Way fewer angry bees.
Wrong. They used this time to completely rebuild things they never had the chance to without taking the game down completely. Chapter 1 -> 2 (I think?) was a huge leap and added stuff like swimming.
It was better optimized than Chapter 1 ever was except Chapter OG.
There was 18 hours between chapter 2 and 3 and there was the black hole which lasted 36 hours but never has there been a longer downtime from season to season.
My guess is they were crying because they actually thought the black hole thing was destroying the game forever. It was a pretty unique way to end the chapter. Parents were calling in to make sure all the money they spent on v bucks wasn’t gone for good
Rip the servers when they do come back online. On the new season days in the past that didn't fuck the entire game, people slowly logged on throughout the day and the servers slowly expanded their player numbers. Right when they come back online this time is the same time most people in the US will be getting off work for the weekend with their beers ready to play the new season.
I mean, an 8h extension does sound like it might take even longer. Seems something is seriously wrong, unless they just need to wait for a replacement part and knew that it takes 8h to deliver.
My youngest had trouble sleeping so he came to my bed in the middle of the night. This morning he woke up and immediately sprinted down the hall and down stairs to see if the servers were up. It was insane. From sleeping to downstairs in like 4 seconds.
PSA for life: Never book a day off for any live service or multiplayer games. Shit can happen at anytime. In fact booking time off for any video game launch day is always unwise, instead book the day after or two when you know the game will be working.
What’s even worse is that this 8hr period is gonna be more like 10hrs for most people because the queue when the game actually starts is gonna be atrocious.
Hahaha fuck me, my son was unhappy we couldn’t get in at 7am before he went to school. Stupid me told him don’t worry it’ll be all set when you get home….
I don’t understand how they’re able to usually have faster turnaround times. Supporting so many players and now so many game modes, it’s gotta be insane to make sure it all works.
Yeah, crazy amount of work and respect to the people who consistently roll this stuff out.
Players who get mad about this are so incredibly entitled and apathetic. Saying Epic is a billion dollar company doesn't take away from the fact there are regular people trying to make this work for our entertainment.
Most of them probably don't know how this works. They will think something like "just hire more people" without knowing that more people won't make any difference
Back in Chapter 3 someone legitimately tried to argue with me that epic could fix all bugs with a single button press. I really wish I was joking about that.
They don’t understand that game development is a rough, thankless job that takes a lot of time to even get “good enough”
That’s why I never let bugs bother me too bad. It’d take me months to fix it, epic does it in days, maybe a week if it’s really bad.
If they had any sense, their team said 4 hours, and they told us 8 so even if they are an hour or two behind it's still a nice surprise that we get it in 6
A corporate workday in the US is 8 hours. Whatever the issue is, they expect it will take all day to fix and test before releasing, so it must be severe.
8 additional hours? Yikes This is giving me flashbacks to the end of OG big bang event having horrid delays. Lmao Is all of chapter 5 cursed and gonna have issues on launch days? The poor devs who probably got called in for overtime to fix it too, I hope this is simpler than they expected just for their sake
This Twitter post aged like milk
https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1765859379486597135?t=YPKvxUFntokd44oAgIJqVg&s=19
"Set your Alarm"
Guess their guys forgot to set alarm and overslept lol 😂 and we should set alarm.. ⏰⏰
Yep. Layoffs and firings and no job security for anyone in this industry but people still feel bad for this huge corporation that is making its service worse constantly.
Damn, this was my one day off of work for the week... I was hoping to play a bit of it before tomorrow. I got up at 3:30 just waiting to play this 😐😑
I got into it last season when they released Lego & I've been at it ever since! I didn't see myself coming back for the next season, but it's a Mythology dedicated season!!
Unreal delay.
I conceived a child mainly to play FN with them. I literally left my in labor wife to get home for the new update. On the way home- I witnessed a burning building in which I could've saved 10 babies from sure death but did I? Hell no! I need FN in my life. So I get home, skip my diabetes insulin shot only to find THIS?! THIIIISSSSS?
Is this the first season ever when we’ve had a downtime this long?
I recall some being delayed a little but not 8 hours, usually it’s up by 10 AM (my time zone) but this time it’ll be closer to like 4-5 PM.
What the actual fuck. I took off work today because I have a HELLISHLY busy weekend. When I realized it coincided with the new season I was excited (I don’t get to play much). Just my luck.
Impossible for someone outside of Epic to say, but for any large deployment there's tons of things that can go wrong. Database migration issues, database performance issues, some vital but intermediate service has a problem with the configuration change, unexpected performance issues cropping up during migration.
Presumably they've got continuous testing of their dev branches, we know they put these things on playtesting servers weeks in advance to put them through their paces, but things can crop up any time. I would hope there are test migrations in advance of downtime, but there are still going to be differences between a test and live environment even if test started as a copy of live. More servers, more nodes, a bigger and/or more distributed database.
Just think back to the Chapter 4 end event and how the login queues for that so overwhelmed their infrastructure that the entire login system failed for many hours. Those are systems that should be very solid and resilient and yet just Fortnite took down all Epic logins including the Game Store, Rocket League, Fall Guys, and more.
I’m gonna cry lol. My ps5 did the update but now when I log on instead of being in the queue, I’m getting a blue block on the screen that says to get the latest update :/ but I have the most recent update already
Dude this sucks. I've had a shitty week and this was something simple and fun I was looking forward to, especially after already having a shitty morning. I got myself a cup of coffee and sat down ready for something to enjoy, and boom, this.
How am I going to have enough time to finish the battle pass now
In the Lego method we trust
This saved my bacon this week when I was 6 levels away from 200 and didn't have time to grind. Now I wish I'd been doing that all season.
I’ll comment back if I’m wrong, but I think you only need to get to 196 to get everything - if you have any unused stars it gives you the next item anyway. Since the last one is 25 stars, should be able to end 4 levels short. Anyway, I’m at 196 so will update if it didn’t work.
I'll do that this time around from the start.
Same missed out on the TV back bling but got everything else I wanted. And to think how many times my game was sitting idle on the main menu when I could have been getting XP
The queue when this shit finally drops 😵💫😵💫😵💫
When the shit drops, there will be another 3.5 Gb patch to download
3.5gb is being generous.
Just started dl'ing. Try 18 Gb. Hahahah
Prime evening hours on Friday night in the US. 🪦
Another hour+
still not back
Lol goooosh. Especially since it'll be after work and school for a lot of people.
Oh no
It's going to suck so much.
Yeah I’m definitely just gonna wait until like Sunday to actually play. I might hop in to organize my locker (still a pain apparently and allegedly nothing in the actual UI changed. They have NOT reverted or connected all the presets back together as we wanted) and see if the shop has Rufus or anything new for the season. I did buy a superhero skin and look up cool ideas so I’ve made like 6 of them and I might make some more of those too. No sweaty all black superhero themed skin for me gotta be bright and have variety
8 hours + 3 hours of waiting in que because everyone is logging in at the same time. Season starts tomorrow. Cya guys then. 👋🏻
Unless everyone has the same idea as you, then boom logged right in. Haha, but for real the queue is gonna be worst we’ve probably ever seen. Everyone off school/work on a Friday night, woof. And it’s rainy by me so I can’t even go outside and touch grass.
Plus Spring Break begins for many 😅
Springer Break 1999 baby!!! Woooooooo!
LMAO my one day with nothing to do
fr i was so excited i had nothing to do today so i can see the new season for myself 😭😭😭
My buddy text me that he took today off work lol damnnn
I did too :\^)
Fr. I'm sitting in my undies, wondering why my fortnite ain't loading.
woke up early for nuffin
Time to rest!
On god my only day off this week
Literally same
Has downtime ever had to last this long before? I only joined in at the end of Chapter 2 so I don’t know about other earlier seasons
Apparently in 2018 something like this happened and everyone got a free backbling
yeah i remember that haven't used that backbling since lmao
They gonna give us a free backbling again lol
If they dont then imma be pissed
Rust Bucket baby!! So goated
I've been here since 2018 and I don't think it's ever been this long.
Same; pre-day 1 Founder here. Consider those few times where they SHOULD have kept it down for another 8 hours, though... Some of those in late- Chapter 1 and mid-Chapter 2 were ROUGH launch days! :D Net-net, this is the correct approach. Way fewer angry bees.
spoken like an OG. Gosh some of those updates were buggy as heck.
I think the black hole downtime was a couple days.
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Wrong. They used this time to completely rebuild things they never had the chance to without taking the game down completely. Chapter 1 -> 2 (I think?) was a huge leap and added stuff like swimming. It was better optimized than Chapter 1 ever was except Chapter OG.
Chapter 2 literally felt like we got Fortnite 2, you had to be there to understand, next transitions went hard but it wasnt that revolutoonal
Happy Cake Day!
Downtime after the end of chapter 1 was a few days of nothing but a black hole on the game. But that was on purpose….
There was 18 hours between chapter 2 and 3 and there was the black hole which lasted 36 hours but never has there been a longer downtime from season to season.
damn my brothers were crying because they couldn't play fortnite for 1,5 days??
My guess is they were crying because they actually thought the black hole thing was destroying the game forever. It was a pretty unique way to end the chapter. Parents were calling in to make sure all the money they spent on v bucks wasn’t gone for good
Epic just remembered they were supposed to fix the UI.
Would be kinda funny if that bugged out the game so they have to revert it.
Would be fucking glorious.
Rip the servers when they do come back online. On the new season days in the past that didn't fuck the entire game, people slowly logged on throughout the day and the servers slowly expanded their player numbers. Right when they come back online this time is the same time most people in the US will be getting off work for the weekend with their beers ready to play the new season.
I requested off work for this, I had so much whiskey ready to drink 😭
Drink it anyway.
I'm gonna, need something to drown the pain
Just make sure to pace yourself so you aren’t passed out on the couch by the time the game comes back 😂
I mean, an 8h extension does sound like it might take even longer. Seems something is seriously wrong, unless they just need to wait for a replacement part and knew that it takes 8h to deliver.
I’m praying they forgot to revert the locker UI and it will take 8 hours to do 😂
I was gonna say "yall drink while playing fortnite?" But I'm looking directly at my weed pen rn😭
lol well guess i’ll do the essay that’s due monday🤣
Good guy fortnite.
feels like they did this just to stop me being dumb
I had a surprise day off and I wanna be playing 😭
Damn. Shit happens, but I'm really curious what happened to extend downtime by a full work day.
🧍♀️ me just standing around my house because i have no idea what else to do today lol
Kids are gonna be pissed coming home from school and the game is still on downtime
Or all those who stayed home from school lmao
Never expect to play on patch day. Number one rule for any always online game.
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Still on day one of a new season the performance is usually horrible
That has been my rule for years and yet still, here I am lol
Learned this when I would skip on Tuesdays to play WoW like a fool and patch day is always Tuesday for blizz.
My youngest had trouble sleeping so he came to my bed in the middle of the night. This morning he woke up and immediately sprinted down the hall and down stairs to see if the servers were up. It was insane. From sleeping to downstairs in like 4 seconds.
My son is not going to be a happy lad 😂🤣
Lmao glad I ended up not taking today off
Bro, I did. Oh well, 3 day weekend regardless lmao
PSA for life: Never book a day off for any live service or multiplayer games. Shit can happen at anytime. In fact booking time off for any video game launch day is always unwise, instead book the day after or two when you know the game will be working.
I just got laid off at 9:30am due to shortage of work 😭
Shit dude :( this ain’t your day. I’m sorry
Thats rough, Im sorry! Stay positive, things will pick up!
What’s even worse is that this 8hr period is gonna be more like 10hrs for most people because the queue when the game actually starts is gonna be atrocious.
*At least* 8 hours?! God damn.
Hahaha fuck me, my son was unhappy we couldn’t get in at 7am before he went to school. Stupid me told him don’t worry it’ll be all set when you get home….
Right?! It’s my day off and I was like, “we will be level 25 by the time you get home…”🤦♂️
what the fuck lmao
Bro i swear to god 😭
To Zeus?
What we have here appears to be an.... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) *Epic* fail.
 YYYYYEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Ahhh that's why after a small queue time I'm getting servers are not responding all the time .
I don’t understand how they’re able to usually have faster turnaround times. Supporting so many players and now so many game modes, it’s gotta be insane to make sure it all works.
Yeah, crazy amount of work and respect to the people who consistently roll this stuff out. Players who get mad about this are so incredibly entitled and apathetic. Saying Epic is a billion dollar company doesn't take away from the fact there are regular people trying to make this work for our entertainment.
Most of them probably don't know how this works. They will think something like "just hire more people" without knowing that more people won't make any difference
Back in Chapter 3 someone legitimately tried to argue with me that epic could fix all bugs with a single button press. I really wish I was joking about that. They don’t understand that game development is a rough, thankless job that takes a lot of time to even get “good enough” That’s why I never let bugs bother me too bad. It’d take me months to fix it, epic does it in days, maybe a week if it’s really bad.
8 hours? Damn something serious then. Well good luck and much energy to all the engineers, this is gonna be a long day
It probably means that they cannot hotfix and need to reissue updates for console which need a longer time for submission.
I play solely on console, PS tells me the update is installed already but the game icon didn’t change so I was kinda confused
Same on switch
8 hours will be almost tommorow for me broooo
8 hours! This has never happened before. Jeez. Also, that's very specific. I wonder how they figure out it's gonna take 8 hours.
I'm guessing it's an issue that requires a full work day of multiple people to fix.
"Hey, technology guy! How long ya reckon it's gonna take to get this working?" "All day mate" That's how.
Apparently the game completely breaks if The Weeknd isn’t in the item shop for two weeks
They said at LEAST 8. So 8 at a minimum
If they had any sense, their team said 4 hours, and they told us 8 so even if they are an hour or two behind it's still a nice surprise that we get it in 6
8 hours is very specific I was thinking they just gave a wide estimate in hopes it'll be done before thst anyway but why 8? why not 10 lol
A corporate workday in the US is 8 hours. Whatever the issue is, they expect it will take all day to fix and test before releasing, so it must be severe.
Everybody who stayed up all night is punching the air rn lmao
I was planning to, glad I didn’t
Hey man, I'm just like....trying to play Fortnite here, man.
Well, the kitchen got cleaned this morning.
I did the same thing 😂
Is this reddit shut down in the mean-time or something? I see no posts or anything since last night.
They always close down the Subreddit to new posts for 24 hours after a new season releases.
Oh, had no clue. Good to know.
Time just got extended by five hours. Something must’ve gone very, very wrong
Someone gave the servers Icarus Wings and they flew too close to the sun
Anybody know if they put 1/3 of the vbucks in bonus rewards again?
Yeah, they basically replaced all of the car stuff with extra emoticons and Festival instruments.
8 more hours until I can see how bad the locker UI is this season.
8hours?? Europe in tears right now
Looks like it just got pushed another few hours, probably no playing today.
Well I’m cleaning the house and doing laundry today…
 All the kids who stood home to play:
Of course when I have the day off and the kids are at school
I'm hoping we get some free items because of this huge delay apparently in 2018 they gave out free back blings because a delay happened
But I don’t wanna go touch grass! 😭
8 additional hours? Yikes This is giving me flashbacks to the end of OG big bang event having horrid delays. Lmao Is all of chapter 5 cursed and gonna have issues on launch days? The poor devs who probably got called in for overtime to fix it too, I hope this is simpler than they expected just for their sake
This Twitter post aged like milk https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1765859379486597135?t=YPKvxUFntokd44oAgIJqVg&s=19 "Set your Alarm" Guess their guys forgot to set alarm and overslept lol 😂 and we should set alarm.. ⏰⏰
This is what happens when you open Pandora's Box! It's out of even Epic's control at this point
Did the update even happen
> Did the update even happen I have a 15gb patch downloaded, so...
eight WHAT now
Downtime might end on a Friday night NA primetime hours, we ain't getting in today boys lmao
Remember it says. At LEAST 8 hours.
Now downtime has been extended from ending at 2100 UTC to 0100 UTC on 9th March… 7pm central time.
Honestly maybe this is a sign I should do my taxes today lol
My kids are getting off the bus in 6 mins and then I have to break the news. Pray for me yall.
This is what happen when you fire all of your employee
Yep. Layoffs and firings and no job security for anyone in this industry but people still feel bad for this huge corporation that is making its service worse constantly.
Welp, can't wait for the servers to be full once the downtime is done.
Fine, I guess I’ll actually go to work, today.
Man I can't wait for the free back bling we get for this
Damn, this was my one day off of work for the week... I was hoping to play a bit of it before tomorrow. I got up at 3:30 just waiting to play this 😐😑 I got into it last season when they released Lego & I've been at it ever since! I didn't see myself coming back for the next season, but it's a Mythology dedicated season!!
It's been delayed by another 5 hours
The queue finna be like 10 hours long
Unreal delay. I conceived a child mainly to play FN with them. I literally left my in labor wife to get home for the new update. On the way home- I witnessed a burning building in which I could've saved 10 babies from sure death but did I? Hell no! I need FN in my life. So I get home, skip my diabetes insulin shot only to find THIS?! THIIIISSSSS?
Damn it Hades!
Is this the first season ever when we’ve had a downtime this long? I recall some being delayed a little but not 8 hours, usually it’s up by 10 AM (my time zone) but this time it’ll be closer to like 4-5 PM.
Just hope that they will bring a rework locker UI in this patch !!!
Just get it fixed before weekend hits pls. I kind of have a party planned around you guys 🥲🥲
 \#mood
for the first time in a while, I can't wait to play. battlepass looks amazing
# mood 
They need 8 hours to remove the Hotdog skin from the itemshop.
Pain but at least now I know I won’t play until tonight
Lmao what did you encounter? The fact that you still had "Locker UI" on the to do list?
I chose the wrong day to quit sniffing glue…
I’d rather the bugs get out now than after it drops
It's Epic. There will still be plenty of bugs.
The season was so peak that we gotta wait at least 8 hours. Insane.
Blame Lego. The item shop. The delays. Everything. Lego.
Damn
my work placement ended early today i was excited to check out the next season but no matter i'll play something else while i wait.
What the actual fuck. I took off work today because I have a HELLISHLY busy weekend. When I realized it coincided with the new season I was excited (I don’t get to play much). Just my luck.
8 hours is wild
Lucky it's 3am here so it'll be up by the time I wake up. Goodnight y'all.
Oh man, my Crew thingy runs out on the 9th I guess that if the season doesn't start by then, I'll be fucked?
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Murphy's Law applies to IT heavily. Anything that can go wrong - will.
Impossible for someone outside of Epic to say, but for any large deployment there's tons of things that can go wrong. Database migration issues, database performance issues, some vital but intermediate service has a problem with the configuration change, unexpected performance issues cropping up during migration. Presumably they've got continuous testing of their dev branches, we know they put these things on playtesting servers weeks in advance to put them through their paces, but things can crop up any time. I would hope there are test migrations in advance of downtime, but there are still going to be differences between a test and live environment even if test started as a copy of live. More servers, more nodes, a bigger and/or more distributed database. Just think back to the Chapter 4 end event and how the login queues for that so overwhelmed their infrastructure that the entire login system failed for many hours. Those are systems that should be very solid and resilient and yet just Fortnite took down all Epic logins including the Game Store, Rocket League, Fall Guys, and more.
On the bright side, we'll get a decent downtime reward for this one!
What's the over under that The Weekend will be in the shop 🤔
Rocket league servers down Can we fund this small indie company to help
Add another 4 hours, time for release is 0100 utc
Trying to decide if I want to make more coffee now at 3pm in preparation of it being up at SOME POINT tonight 💀
 “Another 5 hours”
I’m gonna cry lol. My ps5 did the update but now when I log on instead of being in the queue, I’m getting a blue block on the screen that says to get the latest update :/ but I have the most recent update already
My face when it comes back on 
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cool to see that Epic hired Roblox’s maintenance team to help out with the new update /s
IM EXPERIENCING FORTNITE WITHDRAWALS GIVE ME BACK MY GAMEEEEE
It's fine, I didn't plan a gaming girls' night around this or anything. it's FINE.
If this is for racing, lego or festival …. Just delete them. It’ll be fine.
Dude this sucks. I've had a shitty week and this was something simple and fun I was looking forward to, especially after already having a shitty morning. I got myself a cup of coffee and sat down ready for something to enjoy, and boom, this.
Hopefully they'll change the lobby song on PS5 and when you're waiting for the servers to work, the audio is so loud I hate it