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Shout out to that moment back in 2009 when Robin Walker of Valve once wrote that they started working on Team Fortress 2 back in 1987. (www.teamfortress.com)

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(2nd paragraph) ...which would have put the development of TF2 11 years before the first Team Fortress came out. Nice one, Robin.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is a typo, possibly supposed to be 11 or 12? Is 1998 too early for TF2 design to be occurring?

Team Fortress 2 was announced in 1998

According to Wikipedia. So that looks plausible.

The post however talks about gathering feedback from players of TFC, which didn't come out until 99. Maybe Robin meant the original mod, which he also worked on, or maybe he just misremembered at what point TFC came out or when they actually explored the death stuff that resulted in the freezecam.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember reading a preview for it back in 98. Completely different game than what we got.

Here's some preview footage from 1998. They clearly scrapped the game and started over at some point

https://youtu.be/evFhDGUWI4Y?si=pZr513q1qe0Q3RM1