India, Nov. 2 -- Fortnite players are experiencing widespread outages as servers went offline for scheduled maintenance ahead of the highly anticipated The Simpsons mini-season launch. The downtime, which began at 11:30 AM ET on Saturday, following the 'Welcome, Our Alien Overlords' live event, has left millions unable to access Battle Royale, Zero Build, or Ranked modes.

Epic Games confirmed the shutdown on X, stating it's necessary to deploy update v38.00, introducing a Springfield-themed map, Simpsons Battle Pass, and cel-shaded graphics.

The outage is part of Epic's routine for major updates, but its timing immediately after the event, has frustrated users, with Downdetector reporting over 50,000 incidents in the first hour. Complai...