Fortnite Chapter 3: that’s when the servers for Season 2 will be offline

Epic Games recently announced, via the official Fortnite Status Twitter profile, that in view of the Season 2 of the Chapter 3 Of Fortnite there is a period of inactivity in order to allow proper server maintenance.

Such moment of inactivity will also interrupt matchmaking services 30 minutes before the event.

All this does not come as a surprise, given that in the past few hours TweaBR, an important leaker and dataminer who works in the community of Fortnitehad announced through his social profiles that the new season of Chapter 3 of Fortine would debut tomorrow, that is Sunday March 20, 2022.

As happened then for the launch of the previous seasons of the well-known battle royale, there will be long periods of server inactivity first in view of the new update. Below you can see the official announcement of Epic Games:

Downtime for Chapter 3 Season 2 will start at 3:00 AM ET (07:00 UTC) with matchmaking being disabled 30 minutes prior. pic.twitter.com/qVI1MmzxNG

– Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) March 19, 2022

Downtime for Chapter 3 Season 2 will begin at 3:00 ET (07:00 UTC) with matchmaking disabled 30 minutes earlier.

Typically, the periods of server downtime that precede the arrival of a new season they run between one and two hours on averageso players will have to wait this time before they can get to the heart of Season 2 of Chapter 3 of Fortnite.

The date of Sunday, March 20, 2022 had already been previously mentioned by programmer Joseph Stubhart, but the post he had published on Twitter about it it had been canceled a few hours after publication.

Speaking of the news coming for next season, according to a recent leak, the character of Doctor Strange could make his debut in the roster, who will soon be the protagonist of a second film dedicated to him after the one released in 2016.

Fortnite is available for free on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S and mobile devices.