''Fortress Forever'' is a

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total conversion

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for ''

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''. The game is based on ''

Team Fortress Classic ''Team Fortress Classic'' is a first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation, Valve and published by Sierra Studios. It was originally released in April 1999 for Windows, and is based on ''Team Fortress'', a Mod (video gaming), mod f ...

'', and has been 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 ( planning phase) for more than a year before the

SDK was released, according to a developer team member. ''Fortress Forever'' was originally released as a modification for

on September 13, 2007, where anyone who owned a copy of the game could play the modification. The game is now freely available to all who have a Steam account. On May 24, 2013, ''Fortress Forever'' updated to version 2.46.Fortress Forever News (6th May, 2013)
2.46 Released!
Retrieved 2013-05-06.Fortress Forever 2.46 Released! News - Mod DB
2.46 Released!
Retrieved 2013-05-06. Version 2.46 incorporated an auto-updater for future client updates. On October 16, 2013, FF was 'greenlit' on

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, meaning the game would be coming to

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soon. Version 2.46 was the last version of Fortress Forever released before the game and future updates released on Steam. On March 20, 2015, it was announced that Fortress Forever would be released for download on Steam on March 27, 2015 and they did release as planned with version 2.5. On June 5, 2016, the latest version, version 2.6 was released.Steam Community :: Fortress Forever v2.6 Released (June 2016)
Fortress Forever v2.6 Released (June 2016)
Retrieved 2013-06-05. This was also the first major update (the first update with a version number) since the Steam release.

Reception

Fortress Forever had a very successful launch but only one month later, Team Fortress 2 was released. It began to lose many players and was considered dead until the Steam re-release in 2015.

References

External links

Official website
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