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Fortnite is now offline for all Battle Royale and Save the World players whilst Epic Games roll out the latest 4.4 content update.

The team confirmed this news on Twitter moments ago before directing players to the latest patch notes.

As previously mentioned, it's not clear how long the game could be offline, however, we do at least know some of the official changes Epic have made to the game thanks to the official patch notes.

The headline features include the new stink bomb grenade and Final Fight LTM for Battle Royale players, whilst Save the World gets a new 8-Bit Demo Constructor Demolitionist hero.

You can read everything you need to know about the latest Fortnite 4.4 patch notes on the link or refer to the gallery below.

And stay tuned for more details on when the game is coming back online.

Original Story - Fortnite is expected to drop a new update today on PS4, Xbox One, PC, iOS and Nintendo Switch.

This upcoming update will likely include new 4.4.2 Patch Notes for both Battle Royale and Save the World modes of the game.

However, we're not anticipating any downtime for this upcoming addition to the game.

Unlike last week's 4.4 update, we're also expecting that any additional updates won't require any server downtime as they're more likely to be a simple content update for the game.

That means we're unlikely to see a whole raft of Bug fixes to the game, but we could get a series of new additions.

And one might have already been spotted.

According to Fortnite Intel, the in-game news feed has already hinted at the inclusion of a new Stink Bomb weapon coming to the game soon.

The Stink Bomb is said to explode in a cloud on impact, damaging anybody caught inside.

Having been featured on the in-game news feed, it's likely this new addition will arrive with a new update, coming tomorrow, Tuesday 19th June.

It's also likely that this new content update includes some changes to introduce some sort of new rocket launching ability within the game.

This was discovered within game files by TwoEpicBuddies, a Twitter account which regularly leaks new skins the second they're discovered in the game files.

Only this time, the Twitter user found something related to a missile strike, which matches up a countdown that's appeared on Television screens within the game, at least on the Nintendo Switch version at least.

It also appears to be linked to the evil lair found near Snobby Shores, but it's still unclear exactly what will happen at the conclusion of the countdown or the impact on the game.

It's also possible that the above Missle Firing system could be linked to an upcoming Challenge, especially since the latest leak for Week 8 proved more mysterious than usual.

You can find the full Week 8 Challenge list below:

Unlike most weeks we can't be certain what some of these challenges could be, however, we're likely going to find out in the coming days and potentially tomorrow, should a new update or patch notes yield any more clues.