Valve's Team Fortress
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Canceled |
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GoldSrc engine |
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Valve's Team Fortress was the working title for the class-based multiplayer game Team Fortress 2 in 1998, before the release of Team Fortress Classic, until the title switched to Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms.
Overview
The game was planned to be realistic class-based first-person shooter with large battlefields, vehicles, and real-time strategy elements.
Classes
Commander
The main, non-physical class of the game. He would be able to see the entire battlefield as well as through teammates' eyes and Engineers' cameras, to make and control squads and groups, and to issue orders on fly.
Light Infantry
A lightweight class, similar to the Scout, equipped with an Uzi.
Field Medic
A class wielding an M16 with the ability to heal teammates, and always wearing a first aid bag and a Red Cross bandage. Prototype of the Medic.
Heavy Infantry
A machine gunner, prototype of the Heavy Weapons Guy.
Rocket Infantry
Heavy soldier equipped with SMAW rocket launcher. Could fire only in crouch and prone stances.
Sniper
The lightest class in the game, equipped with a M40A1 sniper rifle.
Commando
A Demoman prototype, equipped with the grenade launcher.
Spy
A stealth class equipped with a garrot wire; was able to cloak as the enemies he killed.
Engineer
A builder that was able to construct Sentry Guns with placeholder Half-Life models and cameras. Known as Medium Infantry on later stages of development.
Weapons
Most of the weapons in-game are the weapons used by the Template:W. Most of the automatic weapons had the ability to switch fire mode.
Personal
Uzi
The Template:W is a submachine gun used by the Light Infantry and later by the Spy.
M16A2
The Template:W is an assault rifle used by the Field Medic.
SMAW
The Template:W (SMAW) is an one-shot rocket launcher used by the Rocket Infantry. It can be only fired in crouch and prone stances, has exhaust, and rockets take 20 meters to arm.
M40A1
The Template:W is a bolt-action sniper rifle used only by the Sniper.
MP5
The Template:W (with a temporary pre-release Half-Life model) is a submachine gun seen only on Template:W 1998, possibly as a placeholder model.
First-person view.
Third-person view.
Grenade Launcher
An unknown multi-shot grenade launcher was used by the Commando.
Stationary
M2 Browning
The Template:W is a .50-caliber machine gun. It used Half-Life brush-based mesh before it was replaced by a model.
Sentry Gun
The Sentry Gun was originally to be built by the Engineer. It used the Half-Life model, but developers were planning to replace it with a bigger model.[1]
The Sentry Gun model.
The Sentry Gun getting built by the Medium Infantry, a later version of the Engineer.
A built Sentry Gun.
M198 howitzer
The Template:W is a manned howitzer with a low rate of fire. It used the Half-Life brush-based mesh.
The M198 mesh.
An M198 aimed at the blue team.
Vehicles
M1A1 Abrams
The Template:W is a main battle tank. It used the enhanced version of its Half-Life mesh.
M2A3 Bradley
The Template:W is an armored personnel carrier (APC) armed with a machine gun and Template:W launcher. It used the Half-Life brush-based mesh with two skins, one is used in Half-Life, one never seen in Half-Life, but included in Half-Life texture files.
The Bradley with Half-Life skin.
The Bradley with different skin.
The Bradley with Half-Life skin in-game.
The Bradley with different skin in-game.
Inside the Bradley.
M35 cargo truck
The Template:W is a truck used to transport soldiers. It used the Half-Life brush-based mesh with slight changes.
The M35 mesh of which the Team Fortress mesh is based upon.
An M35 convoy.
