Epic is just about the first companies to be released with a statement around the Meltdown vulnerability affecting two decades' valuation on Fortnite Skins. The issue is considered a significant one for game development as well as online services. Updating systems has, however, caused performance issues and notable slowdowns for cloud-based services especially. As a result, Epic is keeping its Fortnite community informed about recent login issues & service instability.

Unexpected issues may occur with the services above the next week because cloud services we use are updated. We are working with his cloud agencies to prevent further issues all of which will do everything we can easily to Buy Fortnite Skins mitigate and resolve any conditions that arise without delay. Thank you all for understanding.

Check the full post around the Fortnite forum plus an in-depth go through the Meltdown vulnerability.

The graphic below shows the raised CPU usage following the application of the patch.