Fortnite (partially found alpha builds of massively multiplayer online game; 2014-2017)

Image of Fortnite from 2012-2013.

Status: Partially found

Fortnite Beta (October 12th, 2013)

The Online Tests:

Anyone who wants to provide information or anything related to this can contact Crunnie#0001 on Discord.

Fortnite Online Test 6.5

The Online Test versions are the earliest publicly released builds of Fortnite. In order to participate in one, you had to receive an invitation or redeem a code, however either way they were completely free. 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 OT6.5 has been fully found, along with a portion of OT10, included in the files for OT6.5.

Fortnite early prototype shown off at GDC 2013 (Unknown build)

There were 11 total Online Tests.

Project Fortress:

A while ago, a build of the game from 2012 was found under the name of "Project Fortress." The build was created in Unreal Engine 3, and is not public. You can see gameplay of this build here.

The Limbo: In this build, Limbo's home to the mist creatures. Players could enter under certain conditions. Rare minable resources are found everywhere, and a giant center obelisk fuels the gate to Earth. Closing the gate is the endgame.

Stronghold: 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.

Limbo: 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 nighttime when this happens, Limbo is mostly empty of monster creatures so that the players 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.

Fortnight logo

The original name of the game.

In the "Project Fortress" build an early version of the Fortnite VGA trailer from 2011 was found. You can watch the video of the early version of the trailer here.

The music in the "Project Fortress" build:

The names of the tracks used in the "Project Fortress" build have been found, they are the following:

• Breathing Trouble (FOUND)
• Death by Drowning (FOUND)
• Descent
• Eon
• Gas
• Low Flow (FOUND)
• Luma (FOUND)
• New Combat ("Or" in Spotify) (FOUND)
• Torul
• Unlighted (FOUND)

The found tracks have been compiled into this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hq37IvKnK5hA57KVj5jzt?si=e84c47abbfa5459f

Project Fortress menu

Project Fortress EXE icon

Version name	Engine version	Build date	Status
Project Fortress	3.9.8-1298812 (Probably)	2012-06-03 (Probably)	Found (Private)

The original Fortnite PvP mode:

In these versions there was no "Battle Royale" mode, so everything was about the original game mode, which was later renamed to "Save the World." In these versions, a PvP mode was being developed, and some tests were done with players.

The public versions:

The vast majority of users who played in the Online Tests have not saved images, videos or files of the versions, making it 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, as players were required to sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) to participate in the Online Tests.

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

Videos:

Fortnite Early Prototype Trailer (2011).

Fortnite Interview - Gamescom 2014.

Fortnite - Preview from GameSpot.

Fortnite: Mac Showcase - 2015 Apple Demo.