Epic Games is releasing the final update of 2024, v33.11, today, which includes the Winterfest update. Here’s everything you need to know, including server downtime information on December 18th, 2024.
It’s been a few weeks since Epic Games released Fortnite Chapter 6, including the re-release of Fortnite OG (season 1).
With all the new content, players have been still looking forward to the release of this year’s Fortnite Christmas event, Winterfest.
Last year’s Christmas event wasn’t well received due to Epic removed the Winterfest Cabin and the daily presents that come with it.
With the new release, data miners will likely leak all the new content that’ll come with this year’s Christmas event, and we’ll include them in the post below.
Alongside the new content, we’ll have information on the server downtime below.
Is Fortnite Down Today – December 18 2024 Server Status
Before the release of every major Fortnite update, Epic Games takes the servers down for scheduled maintenance to apply the new patch.
Typically, Epic will take the Fortnite servers down at 4 AM ET / 9 AM ET. However, last night, Epic announced that the servers will go offline on December 18th, 2024, at 7 AM ET.
As with all updates, there’s no information as to when the servers will be back online, but it’s likely the servers will be down for three hours with the servers back up at 10 AM ET / 3 PM GMT / 4 PM CET.
We’ll update this section of the article when the servers are back online.
Fortnite 1.000.162 / 4.51 / v33.11 Update Patch Notes – 12/18/24
The major content piece for today’s v33.11 / 1.000.162 / 4.51 Fortnite update is the Winterfest Christmas event.
Epic Games announced in a tweet that Winterfest Cabin will be returning this week, which means we’ll be getting the daily presents once again.
Other content will likely be few and far between with the only confirmed change being the bush being added to Fortnite OG.
