Endless queues at connection: is this normal?

As of this writing, these servers are fully saturated with demand in continental Europe. This is why Epic Games uses the queue protocol.

If you try to log in, you won’t be able to access the game for tens of minutes. It’s annoying, but it’s the process we often see at the start of Fortnite seasons. The phenomenon should disappear during the day and the connection will quickly return to normal.

Players are notified of crashes when accessing games or purchasing Battle Pass items.

Some even encountered reset queues when they reached the destination…

Finally, other players are reporting LS0016 errors when trying to access Fortnite from their clients.