Valve have truly opened the floodgates for Team Fortress 2 mod teams when they added TF2 to the Source SDK, with Team Fortress 2 Legacy announced for a Steam release. Not to be confused with Team Fortress 2 Classic which is also coming to Steam.
Appearing live on Steam with a Coming Soon page today, Team Fortress 2 Legacy is described as "a project that provides some post-2008 and pre-release Team Fortress 2 features on pre-2008 Team Fortress 2 gameplay basis, with quality-of-life features and improvements made by community as well as with our own hands".
It will include:
- Enhanced third person gamemode that provides a new comfortable way for old gameplay mechanics!
- Lightning fast Deathmatch gamemode that changes the way how you played Team Fortress before!
- 4-Team gamemode. Now you can play as YLW (Yellow) and GRN (Green) Teams with corresponding item and cosmetic colors!
- Performance enhancements (now even old MediaTek can handle it)!
- Expanded options for creating custom weapons and cosmetics.
There's no current release date for it as the developers said they are hoping to have it ready this year. But they're not rushing it to ensure it works well.
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Linas 4 days ago
I have to admit that yes, I am totally confused about the difference between Team Fortress 2 Legacy and Team Fortress 2 Classic. 
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Leahi84 4 days ago
I wish I knew why Team Fortress 2 was so popular. I just don't get it.
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Philadelphus 4 days ago
Wait, didn't Team Fortress 2 Classic also do YLW and GRN teams? *checks link* Oh, yeah, they did. Guess it's a popular addition. 
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I wish I knew why Team Fortress 2 was so popular. I just don't get it.Eh, fun is subjective; something either clicks for you or it doesn't. There are plenty of popular games out there that I just don't find interesting for whatever reason, even if I'm sure they're well-designed games. TF2 has nine pretty-well-balanced classes catering to a variety of playstyles (even more with all the weapons and sub-classes like Demoknight), with a high skill ceiling such that even after hundreds of hours of play you can still be growing and improving. There's everything from high-level competitive tournaments to mucking about on community 2Fort servers as a friendly, with a number of different gamemodes for different tastes, including PvE if you don't fancy fighting other people. And if none of that personally appeals to you, that's fine! No game attracts everyone equally. (I didn't think I'd find it interesting either, but as a college student when it went free-to-play in 2011 on the lookout for free games I fired it up expecting to play for a few hours, get wasted by a bunch of old-timers, and uninstall it. And here I am, 1,435 hours later…
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Calinou 4 days ago
I wish I knew why Team Fortress 2 was so popular. I just don't get it.
Mann vs Machine (the PvE mode in TF2) is still pretty good by today's standards and doesn't have a lot of competition, especially since Overwatch 2 dropped the ball on this aspect.
Last edited by Calinou on 9 Apr 2025 at 12:16 am UTC
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Cyba.Cowboy 3 days ago
This is supposed to be Valve's version of 'Fortnite: Battle Royale', isn't it?
Or is it completely different?
Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 9 Apr 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC
Or is it completely different?
Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 9 Apr 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC
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Philadelphus a day ago
This is supposed to be Valve's version of 'Fortnite: Battle Royale', isn't it?I'm unclear on what "this" refers to here – Mann vs. Machine? Team Fortress 2 as a whole? I've not played Fortnite, but it sounds like the closest thing to it in TF 2 would be Arena mode, where two 12-player teams compete to be the last man standing. But I get the feeling that's one of the less popular modes (I haven't played it in probably close to a decade), so there's not much overlap.
Or is it completely different?
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Liam Dawe a day ago
No it’s absolutely nothing like Fortnite. TF2 is a class-based team shooter, much more like Overwatch.
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