New mod needing to be added to the Cortex game engines!

Fortress Forever " http://www.fortress-forever.com/ " is one of the latest mods for the HL2 engine, looking to release in Sept!

"FF Dev Team- ... a short overview of our goals and the mod's background.
Fortress Forever is a Team Fortress mod for Half-life 2's Source Engine. Our independent team is creating this mod entirely from scratch.
Fortress Forever should please those who have stuck with or been a part Half-life: TFC over the years while at the same time doing more for new TF players than any prior Fortress attempt.
Fortress Forever will be free to those who purchase Half-life 2."


My question? I am wondering if there will be room to add this mod to the next Cortex update, so that we do not have to run it as a modified HL2 game?

We have not seen the server files yet, so I am truly not sure they are set up to run like CSS or DODS but I am hoping the engine will stand alone. If not, then be able to mod the Cortex to let it install as TFC does now. I will be adding the necessary files to the games HL2 engine so that I will just be able to install a HL2 server and have the FF files include if it is not possible.

I suppose we will see after release this month what is truly needed, I wanted to give a shout out and let it be known that some Cortex users may need a new mod added to the host of available Cortex games.

Please do not post to this thread some dumb remark like, this is the way you add a mod, or this has been covered before, as I have already played with several mods that were not included in the Cortex game engines. I am just opening the topic for future reference and the possibility of a new game that may need to be added to the Cortex games list.

Yeah this game rocks hard!

This is definitely a fun game. Wonder though if the TF2 beta release today will drop the fan base though.

Not sure Doc, i come from years of TFC since its release in 96.
Word on the street is FF is for the TFC community by the community and TF2 is not.

Oh, yea!

Looks like FF installed as a HL2 mod so no problem getting Cortex to run it if you install HL2. had to add "-game FortressForever" to the addtional start command line (No qoutes of corse). It runs smooth through Cortex even got SourceMod running as an admin program using Metamod Source (MM:S).

Now when TF2 comes out of Beta that will need a Cortex Engine update I am sure but havent attemted a HLDS install yet, I will need to look into it more.


I got to play FF, It is true to TFC. these guys have worked hard on this. I find the Character modles are less than disirable but not to bad. The game play is very nice, I am impressed. Everything TFC had is there. I like what they did to the Class strengths, as they have rebalanced them. The Pyro is now some one to run from. The scout can now accually get some were before dieng of low health. I was able to shake some rust off and conc accros Shutdown with the enemys flag for the cap. Cant wait to play more...

I also bought the Orange Box for EP2 as 45$ is a deal for the 5 games you get and as you can imagine I love TFC, think FF is the bomb, but I gota get some of this TF2 stuff going on. Well it turns out I need some upgrades to my machine or They need to come out of beta as there are about 5% of the players machines that will not load the game with out changing the games start commands to windowed mode, grrr. I did get to play and I have to admit the Cartoon characters had me laughing and the animations that they do is just to much, but there are no more gernades so how the hell are we going to conc, how do I shotty you in the face 3 times then drop the EMP on you! So if you loved TFC for the fast playing gernade dominating Conc skillin, well I am sorry to say TF2 will not take the entire TFC communty away, but it is fun to play and I will play some more.

So I would say you want some good old TFC then play some Fortress Forever. If you wana play with the kids and have a great time laughing it up with some buds Try out some TF2 next month when its out of Beta.

IMO FF is more true to TFC than TF2. TF2 is a beautiful game with great action but it does not feel the same as TFC. When I play FF I feel like I am playing TFC with better graphics. Also TF2 is an entirely new source engine and mods don't work on it yet, this give FF another advantage with admin mods.

I have spoke to a few TFC die hards and they feel the same way. I see the majority of the TFC crowd going the FF route. Just my opinion.