Not free as in FOSS because it’s limited to non-commercial projects, but they’re Valve. Devs will probably be able to strike deals if their monetization schemes aren’t exploitative.
Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions
Submitted 3 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 months ago
riscwarez@feddit.online 3 months ago
IIRC, the price for a Source engine license is $50K, Valve also has been picky about who gets them these days because people kept leaking stuff.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Most of the FOSS community seems to hate business anyway
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m ready for tf2 on a pdf file
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
It’d probably run at a cool 60 mpf
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
I’d love to see someone make a “TF2 Classic” where it’s the game as it was on release, but with all the current QOS and fixes; none of the unlockables and hats and all that bullshit. Just pure fucking fun.
happydoors@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Google tf2 classic and be amazed. What you speak of has existed for years
Baguette@lemm.ee 3 months ago
demoknight and direct hit soldier are like some of the most fun loadouts though
Even trolldier is fun (granted I suck at it)
off_brand_@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Man I remember the last time I successfully played spy as a kid, with the, “turn left/right 170 degrees and backstab” commands you input right as you pass by someone.
Doable by hand, but now I have a cat on my desk at all times and the range of motion requires to whip around that fast isn’t gonna happen.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I had made a script that would allow me to set timers for my stickies as a demo. Spray a CP with 'em, set the timer to, like, 60 seconds and then go spam regular nades somewhere and just wait for someone to explode a minute later.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Putting the game out to pasture after years of neglect… Sad that they’ll never restore the actual game to its pre-matchmaking glory days. Hopefully this will result in a proper vanilla experience, but it’s pretty painful that the actual game (which will always attract the most players) is being left to rot like this.
happydoors@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Look into TF2 Classic. It’s essentially ~2011 tf2 with just a few different items and game modes. No stupid hats, manageable and balanced weapons. I love it! Been playing for years now with no bot issues. I believe it will be added to the official steam store sometime soon
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 3 months ago
I believe it will be added to the official steam store sometime soon
Assuming nothing explodes, yes. The devs have confirmed they’re working on porting TF2C to use the newly-released codebase and plan to release on Steam now that they’re legally allowed to do so.
Might not be “soon” though. I suspect porting will take a lot of work.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yeah I’ve touched both TF2 Classic and Open Fortress in the past. They’re certainly better than post-2016 TF2, but a) they have very low player-counts, and b) they’re definitely not trying to be vanilla TF2. Each has their own unique vision and balance.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Should’ve always been that way.
Ghost33313@beehaw.org 3 months ago
TF3 confirmed?
viking@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Deadlock is pretty much TF3, haha.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Hell yeah
Vitaly@feddit.uk 3 months ago
This is like classic doom!
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 3 months ago
Will be very neat to see the community reaction to this. To this day dooms open source engine is prolific. I imagine this will be amazing for fan and indie games
ryokimball@infosec.pub 3 months ago
… I use TTS at a pretty fast rate, and instead of “…will be amazing for fan and indie games,” I heard, “…will be amazing for profanity games.”
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 3 months ago
I mean, it’s not wrong. I expect quite a lot of lewd and rude content as well.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Are you visually impaired if you dont mind me asking? Or using TTS for some other reason? Wondering how accessible lemmy is for blind folks and what apps you would be using.
bl4kers@beehaw.org 3 months ago
I don’t think this includes the engine
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 months ago
Hasn’t the Source SDK been out there for much longer?