Team Fortress Classic

Developer: Valve L.L.C. Publisher: Sierra On-Line, Inc. Release Date: April 7, 1999 Chat-Room: #tfc For Physical: patch Half-life to 1.0.0.9 Buy Digital: Steam

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Team Fortress is an online action game that features a wide variety of character classes -- from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man -- enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare.

Originally released in 1996 by Austrailian based Team Fortress Software, TF has been downloaded by millions of people as it has evolved and become one of the most popular online action games of all time.

This incarnation of this multiplayer phenomenon, Team Fortress 1.5, is available as a free add-on for Half-Life and adds an advanced user-interface system (V-GUI), new networking and server technologies, new scenarios, and spectator modes.

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How-to-play On-line

The digital version requires the proprietary Steam client, which is not available on most platforms. The multi-player there works, but is incompatible with any other version. You need to port-forward 27015 (UDP) in order to host a server.

The original disc release is not playable. Several alternatives to WON.net existed, but they're varying in quality, up-time and most importantly player count. They're only an option if you're playing with friends.