Team Fortress

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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

Intro Video

The original Team Fortress (Version 2.5)

External links