Team Fortress
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| Basic Information | |
| Released: |
International: August 24, 1996 |
| Developer: |
Team Fortress Software |
| Engine: |
Quake Engine |
| Genre: |
First-person shooter |
| Modes: |
Multiplayer |
| Designer(s): |
Robin Walker, John Cook, Ian Caughley |
| Platform: |
Windows |
Team Fortress is a team and class based online multiplayer First Person Shooter game. The first iteration of Team Fortress, also known as QWTF (Quake World Team Fortress), was designed and written by Robin Walker, John Cook, and Ian Caughley in 1996. Because of its popularity, it spawned endless amounts of ports and modifications, until Valve took interest and hired the three creators to work on a stand-alone sequel, Team Fortress Classic released in 1999, and later Team Fortress 2 released in 2007.
Gameplay
Team Fortress has a high emphasis on teamwork and cooperation involving two teams, red and blue, with 9 classes on each team. In the case of QWTF and TFC, some maps also had a yellow and green team, while there is only red and blue teams in TF2. The players battle each other to complete an objective. This often involved Capture the Flag, Control Point, Attack/Defend, and Escort modes in QWTF and TFC. TF2 also brought the introduction of Territorial Control, Payload, Payload Race and Arena gametypes.
Every iteration of Team Fortress has these 9 classes:
Most popular maps
No official maps were ever made for this mod. The community picked the best custom maps to make an unofficial "map list". Nearly all gametypes in the rest of the Team Fortress games had their origins in unofficial QWTF maps. The most popular maps were:
- Bam4
- 2fort4
- Aztec1
- Border1
- Canalzone
- Rock
History of QWTF
- August 24, 1996 - Version 1.0 released on the Quake engine with the Scout, Sniper, Soldier, Demolitions Man and Combat Medic classes.
- August 31, 1996 - Version 1.1, Heavy Weapons Guy and 2Fort added.
- December 22, 1996 - Version 2.0 released on the Quakeworld engine.
- January 22, 1997 - Civilian class added.
- April 4, 1997 - TF Software Incorporated formed.
- April 13, 1997 - Version 2.5, Spy and Engineer classes added.
Intro Video
The original Team Fortress (Version 2.5)
External links
- Team Fortress - Wikipedia's Team Fortress article
- Team Fortress Classic - Wikipedia's Team Fortress Classic article
- Planet Fortress
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