Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam
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Goddamn, I miss those days! Got a real graphics card for TF2 so I could see through water. Rocket jumping and cluster bombs, ahhhh. There was a mod with a grappling hook that was amazing.
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Exactly.
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The server list is still there fwiw. But yeah the matchmaking update was awful.
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3dfx cards were cheating! I can't see through water with my 1998 Packard Bell!
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Sup, fellow old person. I had a Voodoo 2 with 12MB of VRAM on my 200MHz Packard Bell.
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This functionality has been ripped out of the game
Nope, see the server browser ingame
The game has been dead, riddled with bots
Not anymore!
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it only took 18 years and also several years of radio silence after some mod authors asked them to clarify the legality of their work
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Valve has made an emasculatingly large amount of money this way. Following in the footsteps of Id Software, Valve has been very open with their development tools. I don't know about the very earliest copies but the ZOMG GOTY edition of the original Half Life included its SDK on the disc. Counter Strike and Team Fortress started out as mods that Valve just...hired.
Releasing the tools to their customer base and then hiring the cream that rises to the top is a strategy I struggle to get mad at.
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You're a good doctor!
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I would say the marketplace is a form of enshittification. They're not burrowing headfirst into the shit like some platforms, but it's an inevitable trend regardless.
Plus who knows what happens when gabe isn't around any more. Best case scenario is he leaves the company to the workers as a co-op and then it has a chance to be a lasting legacy, but maybe it goes to someone who puts it up to be publicly traded and that's game over.
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Nice to see Epic isn’t the only company that cares about games. I might check this out just to learn
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Epic isn’t the only company that cares about games
Bait so low quality it rotted away already
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You can't do whatever you want with open source either. One big stipulation of copyleft licenses is the share-alike clause, which means you can't make modifications and then decide your program is now closed-source, so it protects the code from being enclosed again.
I mean yes you can make whatever modifications you want, generally, but it's not totally unrestricted.
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What's the point in switching to TFC anyway when QWTF was still quite alive and well with tons of mods!
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Thinking back, HL had a ridiculous quantity of high quality mods and TCs back in the day. Hell, Valve have even allowed HL to be remade and sold on steam.
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It does harken back to the original HL mod scene though - some high quality stuff came out of that (and valve picked up the Devs too)
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I swear I see most trolls from lemmy. ca and feddit. uk
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"We'd prefer you didn't use the word "Source" in the game title. You wanna sell Black Mesa on Steam?"
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MPlayer. Your gaming cred checks out. How are your knees doing these days?
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This!
(upvotes are to the left FYI)
