Epic Games surprised Fortnite fans on Friday when it announced that the next update, which was slated to introduce Season 9 of Fortnite Festival next Tuesday, has been delayed. Fortunately, the delay is about as short as it can get, as the patch has been pushed back just one day to Wednesday, June 18. Epic gave no reason for the delay.
The move is a surprising one, as it’s rare for a patch to be delayed in advance by just a day. Normally, Epic doesn’t openly discuss patch timing–it just deploys it when it’s ready with half a day’s notice. This patch gets a public acknowledgement of its delay because it comes with the new Festival season launch, which has been scheduled for June 17 for months. The delay means that the current Sabrina Carpenter pass will be extended by one day.
Usually when a patch gets bumped from Tuesday to Wednesday it’s because that week’s Monday was a holiday–Epic doesn’t deploy big updates when its employees aren’t in the office. While June 16 is not a US holiday, there is one later in the week: Juneteenth, on Thursday. It could be that Epic is observing the holiday early instead of during the middle of the week.
While Season 9 of Fortnite Festival was long rumored to have Daft Punk as its headlining act, it’s now looking as though the featured artist will actually be Deadmau5. When the new superhero season began in Battle Royale on June 7, the updated map included Deadmau5 posters, similar to the way Epic teased Hatsune Miku and Sabrina Carpenter ahead of their season launches. While it’s not yet confirmed that Deadmau5 is headlining, he’s by far the most plausible candidate right now.
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