Epic Games Announces Date and Time for Fortnite Patch v4.4

Typically, the weekly patches for Fortnite Battle Royale take place during the middle of the week, but Epic Games has announced that patch v4.4 will be taking place at a different scheduled time than past updates.

The upcoming update will be taking place tomorrow, Monday, June 11th at 4 AM EST / 3 AM CST / 2 AM PST, which means that patch v4.4 will be implemented a day or two earlier than what most players are accustomed to. 

Patch v4.4 releases tomorrow, June 11. Downtime starts at 4am Eastern Time (0800 GMT).

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Epic Games did not state why v4.4 would be coming to the battle royale title earlier than usual. With the battle royale title having a big week ahead at E3 2018 with the highly anticipated E3 2018 Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am taking place, Epic Games could have decided that it would be better for it to launch v4.4 before the E3 2018 festivities for the title began in order for competitors of the E3 2018 Fortnite Pro-Am to have the ability to play on Fortnite patch v4.4.

Patch v4.4 is expected to bring the recently announced thermal scoped assault rifle (AR) weapon to the battle royale title, while the limited timed Jetpack backpack item will be vaulted with the new update for Fortnite. However, there has been no official confirmation regarding if the new thermal scoped AR Fortnite weapon will be added into the game with the upcoming update.

No official patch notes for tomorrow's update have been released, but the full patch notes for Fortnite's next major update will likely go live once it has been implemented completely. 

With the possible arrival of a new thermal scoped AR weapon and the removal of the jetpack from the battle royale title, patch v4.4 for Fortnite looks to be bringing a good amount of changes to the game that has taken over the video game industry.

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