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I was playing fortnite on 2-04-18 22:00 UTC during the "Friends Service" outage. You couldn't see friends lists at all during that time period. So you couldn't

I was playing fortnite on 2-04-18 22:00 UTC during the "Friends Service" outage. You couldn't see friends lists at all during that time period. So you couldn't queue up in a friends / people you knew at all in a match, the only options were either playing solo or using a "filled" team with random players. I've been playing fortnite as one of the early 60k concurrent users all the way to the 3.4M, so its been interesting seeing their load / server issues over time and then reading this (Granted, I don't understand everything discussed in their blog). They've done a outstanding job handling their growing traffic. One thing I've noticed with Fortnite, compared to PUBG or other MMOs, is how large their patch updates are. Its usually several GB large, and it comes fairly frequently about once a week.

frenchie14 9y ago
That has to do more with how they package the game than how much they changed. Often times large parts of the game are bundled together so a single small change in one bundle causes you to re-download the whole thing
Kagerjay 9y ago
Forgot to note that fortnite had an ongoing "friend list" problem before Most notably, whenever you wanted to add someone to your party. You had to do the following. 1. You Send user friend invite 2. User would have to accept invite 3. User would have to disconnect to refresh your friends list (due to friend-service issue mentioned in blog) 4. User would relog back on (took approximately 3 mins) 5. You could then see them on friends list 6. Send party invite