Fortnite has had a troubled weekend as the game continued to be impacted by downtimes, login issues, and unavailability of social features. A patch was deployed early morning on Saturday and login issues were resolved but players still couldn’t party with friends throughout the day.
Epic has now announced on Twitter that its latest fix seems to have resolved the problem.

We?ve released the fix! We?re currently monitoring party/social stability to determine if this was successful. Another update to come soon on whether or not social features have been fully restored. Let us know if you?re still having any problems.
? Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 28, 2018

So far things are looking good with this fix. If you are still having issues with any social features or parties then please restart your game client. If you continue to have problems after restarting please reach out to us on any of our social media outlets. ? Fortnite (@FortniteGame) January 28, 2018

On Reddit, Epic apologized to fans and revealed that it wasn’t prepared for the unexpected spike in player count over the past few days.
“Fortnite has had another big bump in player count this week and we were not prepared for it,” wrote the studio. “We have had a ton of issues and we are working hard to getting them sorted. We can’t apologize to our players enough, and you can be sure that we are going to make this right. We can only ask you for your patience.”
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