Fortnite is continuing to grow its fan base and will need to make sure they have the servers that will be able to accommodate these players. Having servers in different countries means that the ping rate will be reduced and so there will be less lag for players in countries that current do not have their own dedicated servers.
@FNBRLeaks and @MystxcLeaks have discovered the servers that will be added:
The new servers will be in:
- Seoul
- Singapore
- Ohio
- London
- Oregon
- Paris
- Dublin
- Taiwan
- Mumbai
- Singapore
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Montreal
- Iowa
- Scarolina
Fortnite are using the Amazon Web Servers (AWS) and so are able to expand their servers when AWS has them available.
Epic Games servers run off of AWS, so when they go down, we go down. ☹️
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 3, 2017
Here’s what the Director of Platforms at Epic, Chris Dyl, had to say about the relationship with AWS:
“AWS has the broadest and deepest portfolio of services that allow us to stay focused on driving innovation in our products rather than the basic infrastructure needed to get or keep a service running. Their unmatched scalability has been instrumental in keeping pace with our rocketing player populations.”
It’s thanks to AWS that the Rocket Launch live event at the end of Season 4 went of without a hitch and the AWS commercial sales vice president, Mike Clayville, had the following to say about Fortnite:
“Throughout Fortnite’s phenomenal growth trajectory, Epic Games has relied upon AWS to provide gamers with the best gaming experience in the world and to speed innovation by delivering new items, features, and play modes to the game on a regular basis. Together, we look forward to driving new player experiences, leveraging AWS analytics and machine learning services.”
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Singapore twice ??
Scarolina???? C’mon, man.
South Carolina good
Yes the Netherlands is in it! Nice
we ( middle easterns ) play at above 120 ping , why there is no middle east servers ? , servers on turkey , saudi arabia , dubai and bahrin will be perfect , i know fortnite runs with amazon servers ( aws ) , at early 2019 amazon will open a server base in bahrin , hope fortnite take advantage of there offices , it will be awesome if we play on less than 50ms ping
ya and they dont fucking add one african servers i am playing with 200+ ping its so shit
Ek se jou neh
Ja bra jinne
IKR like we need better ping its so hard for us :(((((
South africans play on 220+ping ,I get you’re point even though i wont play on those servers even if they do come out
Im from RSA (South Africa) playing 160+ ping closest server UK . Please epic help the African continent as well.
I’m with you brother
My dude. I wish my internet was on your level. Also from South Africa 210-280 ping. I am so mad. I mean I can not switch weapons and buildings as fast as everyone else. And the more I play the bigger the difference I see. And the only other game with SA servers is Dota 2 and they have gotten so greedy. Like offline games are the only ones who are becoming enjoyable cause yeah. Ping is fun -_-
Yes it’s really bad for us to play on that ping.. In mauritius we r having ping over 250
Sure everyone gets servers except for us poor South Africans. Just so BTW, we do have Amazon Web Service. What is your problem Epic?!
I KNOW RIGHT. I have seen petitions with more than 50k people who actually did the effort to sign in and do the petition. And there are a lot of them. Like there is a big player base in South Africa. And Epic should realize this
i love how they have singapore twice and africa isnt even on there once.. nice epic.. talk about world wide coverage.. just 1 server man, 1 in africa, thats all we ask not 5 in different parts in africa, a central african server would do great
Johannesburg and Cape Town. Like 2 servers. All we need. Those 2 places will cover most of our ping needs
If they add a server in the middle east You all gonna stop watching the pro streamers and you will starting watching us.
ya epic games are fucking pricks we need RSA servers
South Africa need severs.
I play on +200 ping and it is not nice.
Yeap! Epic needs to pull up their socks
Yeah we realy need servers im a pro player and cant stand plank shots and shopting someone first an tge dying for having a high ping
Epic please bring Servers to SA, we begging you!
For fook sakes epic
I live in Namibia and play on 200+ ping it really sucks please epic add African servers. A lot of us play here too!
AWS now has a server in Cape Town, South Africa. You have a +-300k player base playing with 200 ping on EU servers. When can we expect African server??? Please, we also would like a fair game.. any update on SA server would be greatly appreciated. As epic forums have been flooded on this topic and not 1 response from Epic. We now have a number of petitions going just to try be heard. Disappointed to say the least..
South African server please…
What about africa
We really need Middle Eastern servers, hope it will come soon
I thought bahrain servers are coming =(
Once again no response from epic games on the probability of african servers. Let me assure you that we are civilised here and have the necessary infrastructure and capability to have these components. Furthermore, as you (epic games) are aware there is a stable base of gamers to justify such investment. I find it extremely unfair and biased that we africans are subjected to handicaps and deliberate sabotage, with the whole “take it or leave it” attitude. Your (epic games) handling of this subject and lack of response epitomises the rest of the world’s approach when dealing with “the dark”… Read more »
We need a South African server. So tired of playing with a 200ms+ ping! We are better than a LOT of European players but lose because of a bad ping. There are MANY South African gamers (Jeez I bet almost every household has a guy playing PS4, PC or XBox games online) but the lag kills us. Come on epic, give us a server in Johannesburg. AWS is here, why not you?
can you please add middle eastern servers.. all of the middle east countries are struggling with lag. over a 100 ping. it’s really unfair.
pls middle east servers 100 ping is starting to annoy me. my friends and my self are barely even playing fortnite cos of the ping.
Please create a server in the region of South Africa, I am from mauritius and every one here plays on a ping 250+
Its really bad. And we die because of that. People having better ping have a huge advantage over us.