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Epic Games Outage History

Every past Epic Games outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 493 Epic Games outages since September 2019. The 94 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major April 17, 2026

April 2026: Fortnite Matchmaking Issues

Detected Apr 17, 2026 8:04 PM WEST · Resolved Apr 17, 2026 9:34 PM WEST · Duration about 2 hours

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.

Minor April 17, 2026

April 2026: Issue with Unreal Revision Control in UEFN

Detected Apr 17, 2026 11:35 AM WEST · Resolved Apr 17, 2026 4:14 PM WEST · Duration about 5 hours

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.

Minor April 15, 2026

April 2026: Elevated Error Rates for URC Connections.

Detected Apr 15, 2026 10:51 AM WEST · Resolved Apr 15, 2026 1:59 PM WEST · Duration about 3 hours

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.