You Can’t Play Fortnite Right Now Until Season 5 Starts

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Fortnite’s big Galactus event has come and gone, and it was an exciting, if somewhat brief, live event. It concluded with the confirmation of when Season 5 will begin, but perhaps more notable right now is that you can’t play Fortnite. Servers are offline.

The live event concluded with a “to be continued in Season 5” message, along with a countdown revealing a start time: 12 AM ET on December 2. However, rather than sending players back to the menu to continue playing or grinding away at the battle pass, the only option is “exit.” That closes out the game, and re-opening it only replays this short message from the end of the event.

As Epic said, you can’t replay the event, but it turns out you can’t do anything. Hopefully you didn’t have plans to play Fortnite tonight. This isn’t the first time Epic has done this–previously, it shut down Fortnite for days, which proved to be quite the unexpected viral moment. It’s not often a massively popular game is shut down in that fashion. In this case, the wait won’t be quite so long–following the conclusion of the Galactus event, there were just over seven hours until Season 5 begins and Fortnite returns.

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