Pre-Season

Pre-Season
Beginning Date	September 12, 2017
Ending Date	October 24, 2017
New Locations	Dusty Depot Pleasant Park Loot Lake Salty Springs Anarchy Acres Wailing Woods Greasy Grove Retail Row Moisty Mire Fatal Fields Lonely Lodge Tomato Town Flush Factory
Days Lasted	43

The Pre-Season, sometimes referred to as Season 0, was the season in Fortnite: Battle Royale before Season 1. There was not much going on in this season, and it was more of a “test” phase for Battle Royale.

Features and Updates

Update v1.6 (September 12th, 2017)

• New
  • Fortnite: Battle Royale added, multiple mechanics reworked for Battle Royale.
  • Crouch ability.
  • Battle Bus

Update v1.6.3 (September 26th, 2017)

• New
  • Squads
  • Scoped Assault Rifle
  • Tactical Submachine Gun

• Multiple QOL changes.

Update v1.6.4 (September 29th, 2017)

• Balance changes to the Assault Rifle

• Hotfix (October 4th, 2017)
  • New
    • Duos
    • Supply Drop
    • Zapotron

Update v1.7 (October 5th, 2017)

• Bug fixes and QOL Changes.

• Removed
  • Zapotron

• Hotfix (October 6th, 2017)
  • Changes to the Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle, Scoped Assault Rifle, Grenade, Grenade Launcher,

Rocket Launcher, Submachine Gun.

• • Renamed "Semi-Auto Rifle" to Assault Rifle (Burst)
  • Renamed "Semi-Auto Handgun" to Pistol
  • Renamed "Semi-Auto Shotgun" to Tactical Shotgun

Update v1.7.1 (October 12th, 2017)

• Stats added.
• BattlEye added to Anti-Cheat detection
• Multiple QOL changes.

Update v1.7.2 (October 17th, 2017)

• Voice Chat added to PC only.
• Multiple QOL changes and Bug fixes.

• Hotfix (October 19th, 2017)
  • Added Brazil and Asia servers to PC and PS4.

Notes

• In some of the early stages of Battle Royale, gamemodes such as Duos were yet to be released. The only gamemodes available were Solos and Squads.
• The Battle Pass did not yet exist, nor did any cosmetics for that matter.
• The map had been created, first with 9 named locations, and then Dusty Depot, Salty Springs and Tomato Town were named on October 12th, 2017.