A thought that many would have laughed at months ago, but it seems that we now have a new Battle Royale king, as last Sunday, Fortnite managed to claim the record for the highest concurrent players in the genre. That’s right, Fortnite managed to beat out PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds with a peak of 3.4 million concurrent players – which is roughly 200,000 more than PUBG’s current record.

Unfortunately though, Fortnite’s record didn’t exactly come without its 🎃hiccups, as the games servers didn’t exactly hold up very well, with many players reporting of numerous server issues and outages taking place over the weekend.

Following the news of the impressive record, . Epic even went on to state that during Fortnite's record breaking weekend, there had been six different occasions between Saturday and Sunday where the game was affected by either a parti🌄al or total service ꦰdisruption.

It’s remarkable that despite these issues, Fortnite was able to maintain such a large audience, which would in most cases see a player b▨ase dwindle.

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It should also be noted though, that Epic doesn’t exactly state if their concurrent player data was purely a combined figure of all platforms – PC, Xbox One, and PS4 – or if it was solely based off of PC alone, much like PUBG’s current record. Whether or not this figure is a combination of all platforms, it is ๊still quite the feat for a game that was only seeing 60,😼000 concurrent players just a mere few months ago.

Despite Fortnite exceeding the developer’s wildest expectations, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for Epic Games, as this news comes only weeks after they announced that they would be shutting down their rather unsuccessful MOBA, Paragon. Paragon unfortunately never left the beta stage, which resulted in Epic issuing refunds to all players that had spen🎃t money in the game.

This wasn’t all bad news though, as the remainder of the Paragon team will slowly start transitioning over to Fortnite, which u🍎ltimately means that we could be seeing more content being developed and faster delivery on future ♏updates.