Fortress Forever

Fortress Forever
Developer(s)Fortress Forever Development Team
EngineSource
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
ReleaseSeptember 13, 2007,[1] March 27, 2015 (Steam)
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Fortress Forever is a multiplayer first-person shooter modification of Half-Life 2. The game is based on Team Fortress Classic, and was created by the Fortress Forever development team. The intended scope of Fortress Forever is to please older Team Fortress Classic fans, while at the same time creating a game enjoyable enough to players new to Team Fortress styled games.

Development

Fortress Forever was in development for more than a year before the Half-Life 2 SDK was released, according to a developer team member.[2][3] Fortress Forever was originally released as a modification for Half-Life 2 on September 13, 2007.[1] The game is now freely available to all who have a Steam account. On May 24, 2013, Fortress Forever updated to version 2.46.[4][5] On October 16, 2013, Fortress Forever was greenlit for Steam.[6] Version 2.46 was the last version of Fortress Forever released before the game and future updates were released on Steam. On March 27, 2015, Fortress Forever was released on Steam.[7] On June 5, 2016, the latest version, version 2.6 was released.[8]

Port to Source Engine 2013

In January 2024, development was started on a project to update Fortress Forever to the 2013 branch of the Source Engine.[9] The project was made available as a beta branch on Steam and later formally announced on October 12th, 2024. [10]

References

  1. ^ a b Fortress Forever news (2007-09-13). Official release date: September 13th. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
  2. ^ The Far2Cool Network forums. TFC:S 3rd Party MOD - Fortress Forever Announced Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
  3. ^ The Catacombs forums. Fortress Forever - A Team Fortress Mod for HL2 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
  4. ^ Fortress Forever News (6th May, 2013). 2.46 Released!. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  5. ^ Fortress Forever 2.46 Released! News - Mod DB. 2.46 Released!. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  6. ^ "Steam Workshop :: October 16th Batch of Greenlight Titles". Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  7. ^ O'Conner, Alice (30 March 2015). "Classic Team Fortress: Steam Release For Fortress Forever". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  8. ^ Steam Community :: Fortress Forever v2.6 Released (June 2016). Fortress Forever v2.6 Released (June 2016). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  9. ^ "fortressforever-2013". GitHub. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Patch v3.0.0 Beta / SDK2013 Port Announcement". Steam. Retrieved 13 October 2024.