Epic Games Outage History

Epic Games experienced a major Rocket League matchmaking outage that prevented players from accessing any online gameplay features for 58 minutes. The incident affected all matchmaking services, with users unable to join casual matches, competitive games, tournaments, or even create private matches, receiving "feature temporarily disabled" messages. Epic Games identified and resolved the issue, restoring full matchmaking functionality.

Epic Games experienced a major service incident affecting login and matchmaking functionality across Fortnite and Fall Guys, with additional impacts to the Epic Games Store and purchasing systems. Players were unable to log into these games or find matches during the outage. The incident was resolved after 6 minutes of downtime.

Epic Games experienced a major service incident affecting their Publishing Tools and Developer Portal for 19 minutes. The outage impacted the Epic Games Store Publishing Tools and Epic Online Services Developer Portal, preventing developers from accessing these critical development resources. The issues were resolved after investigation and restoration efforts.

Epic Games experienced major matchmaking issues affecting Fortnite players for 1.5 hours. Players reported being unable to connect to matches, with Save the World mode particularly affected by loading failures and backend connection errors. The service was restored after Epic Games worked to resolve the matchmaking problems.

Epic Games experienced an issue with real-time updates from Unreal Revision Control (URC) in UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite). The incident was classified as minor and affected users' ability to receive real-time revision control updates while working in the editor. The issue was resolved after 4.7 hours of investigation.

Epic Games experienced elevated error rates affecting URC connections made by the UEFN editor for 3.1 hours. The issue was classified as minor and the team investigated the connection problems throughout the incident duration. The service was restored after the investigation period concluded.