Fortnite gamers were left furious as servers went down ahead of the release of a new update

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Fortnite has confirmed that a new update will begin this morning.

For those in Britain, downtime started at 8am.

Reports are coming about the Down Detector

Gamers have started reporting issues with Down Detector after the outage.

Fortnite fans furious after downtime hits

Fortnite fans are furious this morning after planned maintenance caused a downtime.

It comes as a new update is in the works just weeks after the release of Chapter 5 Season 2.