Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced plans to release a surprise update for Star Wars Day. Fortnite will celebrate Star Wars Day on May the 4th with a boatload of new items, skins and songs across Battle Royale, LEGO Fortnite and Fortnite Festival. The final major download before the current season comes to an end in a few weeks, update 29.40 has a May 3 release date on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Android and Nintendo Switch. Needless to say, the big new Star Wars update will be accompanied by a period of server downtime, which means no Fortnite for the next couple of hours. Epic Games will disable Fortnite matchmaking at around 8.30am BST, before taking the game offline in full on all platforms at 9am UK time. Fans can expect the game to come back online at around 11am BST.
The news was announced by Epic Games on X, alongside a preview about what to expect from the latest game update.
“Prepare to go back to a galaxy far, far away… Star Wars is entering the Fortnite universe soon! Downtime begins at 4 AM ET with matchmaking ending shortly beforehand.”
In a follow-up tweet, Epic announced that offers have returned to the Item Shop, before once again confirming downtime: “Offers in the Item Shop have returned! Reminder: Downtime for v29.40 begins May 3rd at 4 AM ET.”
As you can see by the tweet from Fortnite insider Shiina below, new Star Wars skins and bundles include Dagobah Luke, Lando Calrissian and AWR Trooper.
There are also bundles available for Fortnite Festival, as well as a Rocket Racing bundle for 2,800 V-Bucks.
Indeed, the Cantina Band Jam Track will be in rotation for free once the update goes live, but only for a couple of hours.
It’s also worth pointing out that as the final major update of the season, the new download could contain game files for the end of season event.
You can see further Fortnite update 29.40 patch notes below. Daily Express will also keep this article updated with all the latest developments from update 29.40.
Fortnite update 29.40 patch notes…
GENERAL
• Players stop moving forward after closing the map.
– Players stop moving forward if they open and close the map screen, and have to re-input a command to move forward again.
LEGO FORTNITE
• Maps may appear blank for some players.
– Some players may find that their maps appear blank when opening the map in LEGO Fortnite.
ROCKET RACING
• Boost pads can fail to boost players when landed on
• “First match protected” text is occasionally displayed after switching game modes
• Tracks sometimes have unexpected collisions
SAVE THE WORLD
• Some text within Save The world appearing unlocalized and only in English.
– We’re investigating an issue that is causing some text within Save The World to appear unlocalized and only in English, and we’re working on an update for this now.
• View Distance Rendering
– We are aware of reports when the player switches view distance to low settings that builds and other objects may not render correctly.
– The team is working to fix this issue. and as a work around set your view distance to max.