Fortnite update 35.10 release date, maintenance time, Chewbacca, General Grievous, more

developer has announced plans to release update 35.10.

Originally scheduled for May 15, the delayed update has been given a new release date of May 16 on PS5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and Android.

The update will be available alongside a period of server maintenance, which starts at 9am BST UK time.

The news was announced on X, alongside a preview about what to expect from the update.

"Insert Wookiee growl," reads a Fortnite post. "Downtime for v35.10 begins at 4 AM ET with matchmaking ending shortly beforehand."

As pointed out by Epic Games, matchmaking will be disabled before downtime officially begins. This means you won't be able to join a game from around 8.30am BST.

The new update will add new Star Wars material to the game, including Wookies like Chewbaca and his Bowcaster.

"Chewbacca's ETA is May 15, and he's bringing his Wookiee Bowcaster to the loot pool to aid the rebels," Epic continues. "You'll also find the powerful CA-87 Jawa Scatter Blaster in Chests around the Island - new to Fortnite!"

Elsewhere, General Grievous should be available to unlock from the Battle Pass.

Needless to say, new skins will also join the item shop, including a new Mandalorian variant.

Finally, Epic Games will make a variety of gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, which you can read about in the patch notes below.

Fortnite update 35.10 patch notes...

GENERAL

• Built-In Emotes do not play in Creative / UEFN Experiences.

- We're investigating an issue where built-in emotes, emotes attached to certain Outfits only, do not play when in a Creative or UEFN experience.

BATTLE ROYALE

• The "Run through rings on the course" Quest UI stops updating progress after 9 rings.

- Accepting Luke Skywalker's Story Quest to "Run through rings on the course" displays a visual-only issue where the Quest UI stops updating progress after 9 rings.

• Can't reboot a teammate if the 'Reboot' key is the same as the 'Buy Reboot Cards' key.

- If the player goes to Keyboard Controls > Combat and changes the 'Use' binding to 'F', they won't be able to reboot their teammate due to binding conflicts with the 'Buy Dropped Reboot Cards' action.

LEGO FORTNITE

• Villagers exploring with players may destroy structures while trying to harvest.

- Villagers helping explore can destroy player structures when attempting to harvest ore

ROCKET RACING

• Ranked rewards' preview icons not displaying corresponding colored Style icons.

- Preview icons for the colored Styles of the Relentor, Luglock and Firecrack cosmetic items are displaying the default item icon instead of their corresponding colored Style icon on the Quest Reward screens.

• Terrain may clip into and overlap with road surface on several tracks.

- Some tracks may display rendering issues, including terrain elements like rocks, ground or lava clipping into the road or appearing incorrectly.