Epic is rumored to be starting up 15 new servers around the world relatively soon, one of which will be based in the Middle East.
Online multiplayer gaming is very much the order of the day in 2019. Although many gamers still enjoy a good single-player, offline story mode, as was given to us via Marvel's Spider-Man, for the most part, everyone is playing their games online. It is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has certainly come a long way in the past few years.
That being said, there is one aspect of online gaming that we are fearful will never go away, not entirely. Lag. When you're playing a game and either yours or your opponent's connection speed doesn't match up. It is enough to drive a gamer insane, and we would hazard to guess is the leading reason why controllers end up embedded in our drywall.
Count yourself lucky if you live somewhere like the US or the UK as believe it or not, you are experiencing lag much less often than those in other parts of the world. Take the Middle East, for example. Gamers in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran who are hooked on Fortnite have to rely on Epic servers situated in a completely different continent, Europe.
Well, not for much longer, at least according to Fortnite Leaks on Twitter. The account has reported that Epic will be launching 15 new servers around the world soon, and one of them is in the Middle East. Bahrain, to be exact, which means players in the countries already mentioned and others surrounding them will no longer ping servers in Europe.
Fortnite Leaks has also supplied the IPs for all 15 servers so players can test them out before Epic presumably makes them go live for Fortnite. However, according to Dot Esports, Middle Eastern players who have tried it aren't reporting an improvement. That is likely due to the servers not being officially launched yet. Plus, there is no official word on them even being used for Fortnite as of right now, but that seems likely at this point.