Team Fortress: Source 2, a fan undertaking looking for to port Valve’s basic shooter to the Source 2 engine, is formally useless. The news was announced following a DMCA takedown demand from Valve that blocked the group’s GitHub repositories. It joins Portal 64, which was additionally canceled lower than every week after the discharge of its “First Slice.”
The takedown was the “nail within the coffin” for the undertaking, the announcement learn, which had have already got been on shaky floor earlier than Valve stepped in.
“Whereas we had been discussing the undertaking’s future internally lately, we already got here to the conclusion to cease the event of the undertaking as a result of present state of the code being unusable anymore with s&field’s current main engine adjustments, and that we total moved on from it,” the announcement learn.
“Sadly, this implies this DMCA takedown is the nail within the coffin. We can’t convey it again and we have hit Valve’s consideration, it looks like they positively don’t need us to make use of their IP (which is completely truthful and authorized from them). From the underside of our hearts at Amper, it has been an honour to develop this undertaking with all of you and the unbelievable crew behind, we can’t be grateful sufficient for all of your assist and enthusiasms during the last 3 years. We’re so glad we acquired this far.”
In improvement since at the very least 2021, Team Fortress: Source 2 was envisioned as a brand new model of the basic recreation on Garry’s Mod non secular successor s&field. With Team Fortress 2 now 17 years previous and largely overrun by bots, Team Fortress: Source 2 was supposed to inject recent life into Valve’s beloved shooter. The crew at one level had greater than 20 volunteers serving to to port property from the bottom recreation and rebuild Team Fortress 2 mechanics.
Portal 64, in the meantime is being shuttered as a result of undertaking “relying on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries,” in response to an update on the project’s Patreon. Like Team Fortress, Portal 64 sought to revive Valve’s 2007 basic, however on Nintendo 64 {hardware}. Its developer celebrated the discharge of its “First Slice” demonstrating its progress on January 5.
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