India, March 19 -- Right after the recent Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 update, Epic Games is launching a new revision, rolling out the battle royale downtime, a bittersweet necessary evil. While the fans are busy unloading their fury on X (formerly Twitter), their frowns may soon turn upside down, seeing what the campy game has in store for them. The 29.01 update kicked off at 4 am ET and is reportedly devoted to bringing back Midas.

Epic Games confirmed the Fortnite server downtime in an X post shared beforehand. Following the usual protocol pattern, matchmaking went down 30 minutes in advance. Video game updates are tricky affairs, but Fortnite has usually maintained the four-hour streak before the major update kicks in functionally. Ho...