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One of the reasons why many players want to find these versions is because they contain a lot of information about the game that has never seen the light of day. For example, in version 6.5 a discarded enemy called "Werewolf"<ref>https://twitter.com/XylicSTW/status/1416343323330088960</ref> was discovered that would appear in the "Fortnitemares" event.
One of the reasons why many players want to find these versions is because they contain a lot of information about the game that has never seen the light of day. For example, in version 6.5 a discarded enemy called "Werewolf"<ref>https://twitter.com/XylicSTW/status/1416343323330088960</ref> was discovered that would appear in the "Fortnitemares" event.


==The non-public versions:==
==The non-public versions:==
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===Update July 2022:===
===Update July 2022:===
Some time ago one of the private builds of Epic Games was discovered, the build is exactly the "'''Project Fortress'''", it was obtained by a data breach of Epic Games a few years ago, but no one had released information about this build until now, it contains lots of information about the game, including the '''original story of the game'''.
Some time ago one of the private builds of Epic Games was discovered, the build is exactly the "'''Project Fortress'''", but no one had released information about this build until now, it contains lots of information about the game, including the '''original story of the game,''' you can see a '''gameplay''' of this version [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbY7cslwXw here].


[[File:W2L.png|thumb|335x335px|The Limbo]]
[[File:W2L.png|thumb|335x335px|The LimboIn this build, Limbo's home to the mist creatures. Players could enter under certain conditions. Rare minable resources abound! A giant center obelisk fuels the gate to Earth. Closing the gate's the endgame.]]
[[File:Stronghold.png|thumb|342x342px|Stronghold ]]
[[File:Stronghold.png|thumb|342x342px|StrongholdThese great structures were called Strongholds. Strongholds were massive mist monster fortresses that represented one of the major challenges for players to work towards conquering.  Players who managed to retake all 3 Strongholds in the game world would "beat" the game. ]]
'''The original story of the game:'''
'''The original story of the game:'''


In this build, Limbo's home to the mist creatures. Players could enter under certain conditions. Rare minable resources abound! A giant center obelisk fuels the gate to Earth. Closing the gate's the endgame.  
The design document states that periodically, non-player-created buildings in the world would be enveloped in a mist creature storm.  When this happens, all players in the building are killed, and when the storm finally passes, the building will be replaced with a brand new building (thus keeping a steady stream of new loot opportunities introduced into the map)
 
However, if the players place their power generator in the building before it's consumed by the storm, then all the players inside the building instead get transported to Limbo, the mist creature's home world.
 
Because it's night time when this happens, Limbo is mostly empty of monster creatures, so the player's can explore and mine unique resources from Limbo. There is a giant obelisk at the center of Limbo which is the gateway between their world and our world.  The player's ultimate goal in the game is to destroy or "plug up" the obelisk.
 
Players are eventually pulled out of Limbo and kicked back into the real world.  If they happen to be inside another "sucked into Limbo" human building, then they ride that building back into the real world and end up in a completely different map in the human world.  In this way, Limbo serves as a sort of hub allowing players to transfer between different human world maps.




'''Conclusion:'''


'''The Strongholds:'''
Maybe in this version of the game there would’ve been a normal and good ending where the normal ending is to destroy the strongholds and the good ending is where you destroy the limbo gateway '''(this is a theory)'''.
 
[[File:Fortnight.png|thumb|487x487px|Fortnight logo]]
'''The original name of Fortnite:'''
 
In the build "Project Fortress" an early version of the '''Fortnite VGA trailer''' from 2011 was found, the most curious thing is that at the end of this version instead of "'''Fornite'''" appearing "'''Fortnight'''", this indicates that '''the original name for the game was that'''.
 
You can watch the video of the early version of the trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrRiZ7u5fo here].
 
[[File:Game menu.png|thumb|452x452px|The game menu looked like this]]
'''Extra things:'''
 
[[File:Iconexe.png|thumb|207x207px|Game icon ]]
The game menu looked very simple and without details, this is because it is a private version of Epic Games (it was never tested with the public as it happened with the Online Tests), the game icon is the weirdest thing about this.


These great structures were called Strongholds. Strongholds were massive mist monster fortresses that represented one of the major challenges for players to work towards conquering.  Players who managed to retake all 3 Strongholds in the game world would "beat" the game.




'''Conclusion:'''


Maybe in this version of the game there would’ve been a normal and good ending where the normal ending is to destroy the strongholds and the good ending is where you destroy the limbo gateway.


'''More info will be added over time.'''
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! style="background-color:gray" | Version name
! style="background-color:gray" |Version name
(Not In Real Life Test)
(Not In Real Life Test)
! style="background-color:gray" |Engine version
! style="background-color:gray" |Engine version
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|<span style="color:green;">'''Found (Private)'''</span>
|<span style="color:green;">'''Found (Private)'''</span>
|-
|-
| colspan="4" |     <small>There are more builds but the exact or approximate amount of them is not known</small>
| colspan="4" |<small>There are more builds but the exact or approximate amount of them is not known</small>
|}
|}


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==The search to find the Online Tests: ==
==The search to find the Online Tests:==
Finding the Online Test 6.5 (discovered in 2021) was '''pure luck''', because the vast majority of users who played in the Online Tests '''have not saved images, videos and files of the versions.''' That is why it is very difficult to find someone that still has Online Test files. People have tried to contact users with the role "Alpha Explorers" on the official Fortnite Discord server, but '''all''' have already said that they no longer have any files from any Online Test.
Finding the Online Test 6.5 (discovered in 2021) was '''pure luck''', because the vast majority of users who played in the Online Tests '''have not saved images, videos and files of the versions.''' That is why it is very difficult to find someone that still has Online Test files. People have tried to contact users with the role "Alpha Explorers" on the official Fortnite Discord server, but '''all''' have already said that they no longer have any files from any Online Test.


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|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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|-
|Online Test 8.2<ref>http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161011224957/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot82-release-notes</ref>||4.13.0-3114236|| 2016-09-28
|Online Test 8.2<ref>http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161011224957/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot82-release-notes</ref>||4.13.0-3114236||2016-09-28
|Unknown
|Unknown
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|-
|-
|Online Test 11<ref>http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170524052603/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/</ref>|| 4.16.0-3472679||Unknown
|Online Test 11<ref>http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170524052603/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/</ref>||4.16.0-3472679||Unknown
|2017-06-22
|2017-06-22
|<span style="color:green;">'''Found (PS4)'''</span>
|<span style="color:green;">'''Found (PS4)'''</span>
|-
|-
|Online Test 11.0.5<ref>https://imgur.com/a/bf21VoO</ref>||Unknown ||2017-06-22
|Online Test 11.0.5<ref>https://imgur.com/a/bf21VoO</ref>||Unknown||2017-06-22
|2017-07-07
|2017-07-07
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|-
|-
|Online Test 11.1.0<ref>https://imgur.com/a/77WIzjY</ref>||Unknown|| 2017-07-07
|Online Test 11.1.0<ref>https://imgur.com/a/77WIzjY</ref>||Unknown||2017-07-07
| 2017-07-15
|2017-07-15
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|}
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Revision as of 22:24, 6 July 2022

Fortnite2012.jpg

Image of Fortnite from 2012-2013.

Status: Partially found

Fortnite Beta (October 12th 2013)

The Online Tests:

Fortnite Online Test 6.5
Fortnite Werewolf

The Online Tests versions are the oldest versions of Fortnite. In order to participate in one, you had to receive an invitation. The players who participated in these versions received exclusive banners within the game. In addition, many players have confirmed that they had direct contact with the developers to give them feedback. Currently, only version 6.5 has been fully recovered[1] and version 10 partially (this is located inside the O.T. 6.5 archives folder).

Fortnite Early Prototype shown off in GDC 2013 (Unknown build)

There were 11 Online Tests (the exact amount with the extra versions is 20). Playing an O.T. was completely free, but you had to have a code or an invitation to play them. They were designed in Unreal Engine 4 and some in Unreal Engine 3 .


One of the reasons why many players want to find these versions is because they contain a lot of information about the game that has never seen the light of day. For example, in version 6.5 a discarded enemy called "Werewolf"[2] was discovered that would appear in the "Fortnitemares" event.


The non-public versions:

The game obviously had non-public versions (the amount is unknown) that only the workers of Epic Games (the company that created the video game) have. One of the few images of this version is this one that was seen at the 2013 Game Developers Conference. The design is very similar to the "final" version of the first Online Test of the game, they were designed in Unreal Engine 3.

Update July 2022:

Some time ago one of the private builds of Epic Games was discovered, the build is exactly the "Project Fortress", but no one had released information about this build until now, it contains lots of information about the game, including the original story of the game, you can see a gameplay of this version here.

The LimboIn this build, Limbo's home to the mist creatures. Players could enter under certain conditions. Rare minable resources abound! A giant center obelisk fuels the gate to Earth. Closing the gate's the endgame.
StrongholdThese great structures were called Strongholds. Strongholds were massive mist monster fortresses that represented one of the major challenges for players to work towards conquering. Players who managed to retake all 3 Strongholds in the game world would "beat" the game.

The original story of the game:

The design document states that periodically, non-player-created buildings in the world would be enveloped in a mist creature storm. When this happens, all players in the building are killed, and when the storm finally passes, the building will be replaced with a brand new building (thus keeping a steady stream of new loot opportunities introduced into the map)

However, if the players place their power generator in the building before it's consumed by the storm, then all the players inside the building instead get transported to Limbo, the mist creature's home world.

Because it's night time when this happens, Limbo is mostly empty of monster creatures, so the player's can explore and mine unique resources from Limbo. There is a giant obelisk at the center of Limbo which is the gateway between their world and our world. The player's ultimate goal in the game is to destroy or "plug up" the obelisk.

Players are eventually pulled out of Limbo and kicked back into the real world. If they happen to be inside another "sucked into Limbo" human building, then they ride that building back into the real world and end up in a completely different map in the human world. In this way, Limbo serves as a sort of hub allowing players to transfer between different human world maps.


Conclusion:

Maybe in this version of the game there would’ve been a normal and good ending where the normal ending is to destroy the strongholds and the good ending is where you destroy the limbo gateway (this is a theory).

Fortnight logo

The original name of Fortnite:

In the build "Project Fortress" an early version of the Fortnite VGA trailer from 2011 was found, the most curious thing is that at the end of this version instead of "Fornite" appearing "Fortnight", this indicates that the original name for the game was that.

You can watch the video of the early version of the trailer here.

The game menu looked like this

Extra things:

Game icon

The game menu looked very simple and without details, this is because it is a private version of Epic Games (it was never tested with the public as it happened with the Online Tests), the game icon is the weirdest thing about this.



Version name

(Not In Real Life Test)

Engine version Build date Status
Project Fortress 3.9.8-1298812 (Probably) 2012-06-03 Found (Private)
There are more builds but the exact or approximate amount of them is not known


The original Fortnite PvP mode:

Fortnite PvP mode

Something that should be emphasized is that in these versions there was no "Battle Royale" mode, so everything was about the original game mode called "Save The World" (Funfact: in these versions, a PvP mode was being planned that would become closest to what Battle Royale is now, and some tests were done with players[3][4]).


The search to find the Online Tests:

Finding the Online Test 6.5 (discovered in 2021) was pure luck, because the vast majority of users who played in the Online Tests have not saved images, videos and files of the versions. That is why it is very difficult to find someone that still has Online Test files. People have tried to contact users with the role "Alpha Explorers" on the official Fortnite Discord server, but all have already said that they no longer have any files from any Online Test.

There is little knowledge of these versions and little information on the internet because Epic Games was very strict about sharing photos and videos, including making streams showing the game, since it was, as indicated in the Online Test 6.5, a, "Top Secret Alpha Test!!"

Version name

(In Real Life Test)

Engine version Build release date Build end date Status
Online Test 1[5] Unknown 2014-12-02 2014-12-19[6] Lost
Online Test 2[7] Unknown 2015-03-24 2015-04-14[8] Lost
Online Test 3[9] 4.8.0-2604755 2015-06-29 2015-07-21[10] Lost
Online Test 4[11] 4.9.0-2671876 2015-08-24 Unknown Lost
Online Test 5[12] 4.9.0-2682676 2015-09-29 2015-11-10 Lost
Online Test 5.5[13] 4.9.0-2760281 2015-11-10 Unknown Lost
Online Test 6[14] 4.11.0-2801990 2015-12-15 2016-02-28 Lost
Online Test 6.5[15] 4.12.0-2870186 2016-02-28 2016-03-01 Found (PC)
Online Test 6.6[16] Unknown 2016-03-01 2016-03-22 Lost
Online Test 6.7[17] 4.12.0-2919741 2016-03-22 Unknown Lost
Online Test 7[18] 4.12.0-3012530 2016-06-14 Unknown Lost
Online Test 8[19] 4.13.0-3062755 2016-07-25 2016-09-06 Lost
Online Test 8.1[20] Unknown 2016-09-06 2016-09-28 Lost
Online Test 8.2[21] 4.13.0-3114236 2016-09-28 Unknown Lost
Online Test 9[22] 4.14.0-3151232 2016-10-19 2016-11-08[23] Lost
Online Test 10[24] Unknown 2016-12-22 Unknown Partially found (PC)
Online Test 10.1[25] Unknown Unknown Unknown Lost
Online Test 11[26] 4.16.0-3472679 Unknown 2017-06-22 Found (PS4)
Online Test 11.0.5[27] Unknown 2017-06-22 2017-07-07 Lost
Online Test 11.1.0[28] Unknown 2017-07-07 2017-07-15 Lost


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References:

  1. ↑ https://github.com/notsamicc/Fortnite-Builds
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/XylicSTW/status/1416343323330088960
  3. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20160402082202/https://www.fortnite.com/blog/first-pvp-test
  4. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20160402032525/https://www.fortnite.com/blog/pvp-test-two
  5. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170606013540/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/alpha-is-here
  6. ↑ https://www.polygon.com/2014/12/1/7316937/fortnite-alpha-sign-ups-epic-games
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbVprGIfMO0&t
  8. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/FORTnITE/comments/2zhnme/fortnite_alpha_online_test_2_giveaway/
  9. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013054339/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot3-release-notes
  10. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/FORTnITE/comments/3bin63/fortnite_alpha_online_test_3_giveaway/
  11. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013072948/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot4-release-notes
  12. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013051645/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot5-release-notes
  13. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170606013540/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/ot55-release-notes
  14. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013072932/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot6-release-notes
  15. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170606013540/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot65-release-notes
  16. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013015856/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot66-release-notes
  17. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013012704/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot67-release-notes
  18. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013072941/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot7-release-notes
  19. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161013133127/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot8-release-notes
  20. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161011204754/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot81-release-notes
  21. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20161011224957/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot82-release-notes
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170115230705/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot9-release-notes
  23. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170115230705/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/blog/fortnite-ot9-release-notes
  24. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170128213638/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/
  25. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170209023107/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/
  26. ↑ http://web-old.archive.org/web/20170524052603/https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/
  27. ↑ https://imgur.com/a/bf21VoO
  28. ↑ https://imgur.com/a/77WIzjY
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