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Live service games are a complicated brute, particularly ones like Fortnite that get regular updates to both the client and the servers. Sometimes things go incorrect, and players will be impacted by crashes, bugs, and fault messages.

A reasonably mutual error is when an update launches and players are unable to download information technology, getting stuck on a "Checking for updates" error message. This unremarkably means they cannot download the update, the game hangs when they effort to load it, and in that location isn't much they can do.

While it is hard to know the verbal cause of this mistake, the solution is the same no matter what platform you play on. All you can exercise is expect for Epic to investigate and resolve the issues.

Information technology seems that something goes wrong with the update where the servers volition non push the new update to players, who are so unable to update their game. Because they cannot load into the game on an older version, it automatically tries to update itself before they load in, trapping them in limbo.

While it is frustrating, especially on days where the game gets new content or new challenges, all players can actually do is exercise some patience and wait for Epic to resolve the problem.

The best way to go updates on these issues is to cheque the Fortnite Status Twitter account, which regularly tweets out updates on any problems that the game is having.