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Early Fortnite Gameplay Footage From 2012 Comic-Con Demo Surfaces Online

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Some of the earliest known gameplay footage of Fortnite has resurfaced online, nearly 14 years after it was first shown behind closed doors at Comic-Con 2012. Reddit user u/kleuscher posted the clip to YouTube, saying they'd kept it saved on a USB drive since 2012, when they originally got the footage from a Russian forum. Apparently, uploading it back then earned them a copyright strike from Epic Games. The nearly five-minute clip is rough around the edges quality-wise, but it's a neat look at what Fortnite looked like before Battle Royale took over. The footage shows early versions of Save the World, Epic's cooperative survival mode, with resource gathering and wall-building already present in some form. Save the World eventually launched alongside the rest of Fortnite in July 2017, years after this demo, and didn't go free-to-play until 2020. It's a nice little reminder of how different Fortnite's original pitch was, and how the game evolved. Epic once described Save the World as a

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