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been thinking about like, posting just FF related media in the downtime, not just maps but the menu music & iconography and whatnot.

i dont know, maybe i should reconsider what i want this blog to be - come up with a sophisticated tagging system, think aboout what i'll actually be posting, et cetera. there's no real reason for me to stick to being a copy of utaesthetics but for FF on this blog, and the poll resulted the way it did, so i might get to doing that tomorrow.

speaking of the downtime! the FF SDK2013CE port is 100% (well, 99.97%) complete and literally the only reason i hadn't resumed activity for months after i did that other post was because i forgot about this blog LMAO, however things in my personal life are shifting right now and soon i'll have a good excuse to dedicate my time to the blog, so i might actually ACTUALLY do the thing with this blog very soon (if i don't in a week-ish time PLEASE somebody remind me!)

TL;DR - damn i could do more with this blog, i'll have to think about that, oh and soon i'll have a good excuse to do something with it at all, stay tuned lol

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kneejerk reactions

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custom capture the flag map

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me after i shark on water 🥰

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to be honest i should probably advertise this here more but you can play this for FREE!! RIGHT NOW!!

games in the Official Discord happen nearly every day, not every hour but it's been growing steadily over the last 2 years and it eventually might get to the point. we're really welcoming towards new players, end everyone is free to join & at least try the game (it's only 5 gigabytes)

the discord has a bot that scans pub servers for activity and notifies a role when a game is live, and a competitive* pickup game system *the competitive aspect is superficial as really everyone just plays it purely for fun, it's just using a competitive ruleset

i was iffy reblogging this on ffgalley instead of just on my own blog, cause this kind of defeats the point, but the blog is in hibernation at the moment anyway and it's a message that matters

hey, remember this shit? yeah, that kinda sucked, huh?

i made it better

ff_carpark_a2 (alpha 2)

ignore the fact there's still dev texture assets i couldn't be bothered with this version 💔

(excuse my shoddy virtual photography skills)

the laptop i made this on has a desaturated screen & looking at this on my phone for the first time jumpscared me

also i was gonna composite the images in a grid but then realized i didn't want to do that because you couldn't see detail at a glance

also also the runoff tunnel caps of with matsys_regressiontest/background.vmt, this has been the case for as long as the tunnel has been present

also also also here's the unedited loadingscreen screenshot

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hey should i keep this blog straight to the point like it was originally intended or should i occasionally stray from the one purpose and post goofy shit like FF related shitposts?

(he says as if anyone gives a fuck about the blog anyway)

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hey should i keep this blog straight to the point like it was originally intended or should i occasionally stray from the one purpose and post goofy shit like FF related shitposts?

(he says as if anyone gives a fuck about the blog anyway)

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oh hey uhm THIS blog exists gee whiz, it's almost like it's been in the back of my mind nonstop,

right so this won't be very formal but iv'e been meaning to write this for some time now; i originally put this blog on "hiatus" because of some engine issues with the game which resulted in graphical bugs regarding cubemaps ( models in HDR using LDR cubemaps which for whatever reason had a gigantic exponent making every metallic model glow like the sun, the game refusing to build/pack cubemaps for different dynamic ranges, other jank ) and other things. the issues COULD be manually fixed but at the time i didn't want to bother with every map i'd go over, having to spending hours fixing one bug.

howEVER, Fortress Forever has recieved an engine upgrade to SDK2013CE, which fixes many graphical bugs, and with like zero extra work makes SDK 2006 compiled maps look like 2 times better. the beta branch on steam has been live for like a week now & is intended to go public tomorrow ( as of me first writing this ). the update introduces some graphical issues of it's own ( namely, the engine versions handle alpha channels on shaders differently, so transparency looks quite different where it's used, especially on water, which is either almost invisible or almost fully opaque ) but it's LIKELY to be patched while in beta.

this means that MAYBE this blog will return to operation. when? idk lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but there's a high chance it will. i'll probably queue up like every map i can so the blog just coasts on it's own without chance of me fucking something up again, but i'm not sure on that yet. when i start with the "new wave" of posts i'll probably private the old SDK2006 posts.

i forgot what else i wanted to say with this post oh right Yes, people still play this game. Every day. :) we wouldn't have a new steam beta & an engine port if nobody played it dumbass. you can know when ( & how ) to play in the official discord, everyone is invited to join in on the fun, we've got both pubs and pickups organized nearly every day, most if not all timezones are covered.

okay i actually can't think of anything else to say now

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ff_banderas

custom unique mode map

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thanks @bananaseller2

ff_fusion

vanilla Invade Defend the Zone map

image limit be damned i'll have to split this into 2 parts

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ff_fusion

vanilla Invade Defend the Zone map

image limit be damned i'll have to split this into 2 parts

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read the pinned post, dude.

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custom capture the flag map

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ff_2fort

vanilla Capture the Flag map

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ff_argon_beta_1

custom reverse capture the flag map

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ff_openfire

vanilla Capture the Flag map.

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Index.

list of maps covered and acknowledged as candidates for the blog.

list will be expanded in the future, and updated with hyperlinks to the map's respective posts.

ff_2fort - covered | overviewed

ff_2morforever - planned

ff_aardvark - considered

ff_anticitizen - considered

ff_argon_beta_1 - covered | overviewed

ff_banderas - covered | overviewed

ff_bases - covered | overviewed

ff_blockfort - considered

ff_congestus - covered | overviewed

ff_destroy - considered

ff_descent_a0 - considered

ff_dropdown - considered

ff_dustbowl - considered

ff_flare - planned

ff_flag4sky - considered

ff_flowb2 - planned

ff_fusion - covered | overviewed

ff_genesis - considered

ff_hellion - considered

ff_hold - considered

ff_monkey - planned

ff_openfire - covered | overviewed

ff_orbit_b1 - considered

ff_palermo - planned

ff_phantom_pu - planned

ff_plunder - considered

ff_r123 - considered

ff_raze_b2 - considered

ff_session - planned

ff_ships_a1 - considered

ff_stowaway_b2 - planned

ff_snopenfire - considered

ff_training - considered

ff_verdun_xmas - considered

ff_vertigo - considered

ff_waldo - considered

ff_warpath - planned

ff_xpress_b2 - considered

MasterPost.

WARNING! major parts and functions of this blog are as of yet undecided on.

profile banner and icon are placeholders and will be replaced.

screenshot "aesthetic" blog inspired by @utaesthetics & @bsptourist focused on cataloging visually notable Fortress Forever maps made over the years.

1 post will focus on 1 map, attempting to showcase it's primary and secondary routes, highlighting notable details; and showcase details usually overlooked, such as intricate ceiling geometry, inaccesible rooms, and mapper signatures, if any are present.

although not decided yet, polls may be hosted on which screenshots in a post best "represent" the map, to be later edited into a collage. collages will be appended to their respective map's main post in a reblog. additionally a "dissection" and rating of a map may come in a reblog.

reblogs of this post may in the future append an index of maps already covered, a collection of data for geeks, CFG parameters used when taking screenshots, et cetera.

YES people still play this game and OFTEN!!! pubs get to 6v6 regularly and comptetitive pickups are played consistently through the whole week. this is primarily possible because of the Fortress Forever Discord which has bots for handling pickup matches and for scanning pub activity, if you're interested in the game join the server to not miss games when they happen. new players are very welcome and if by a miracle you've played before you're very welcome to get back in to the community.

if you wih to ask for a map to be covered; want to submit a small scene you've made yourself; want to ask about the game, or plans for this blog; the ask box is open. any questions tangentially related to Fortress Forever are welcome.

this post is subject to change, when i realize that i made a stupid mistake or miscalculation, or when i decide on certain aspects.

blog managed by @gumbuk9

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Good day. Source for such claims? Any cited papers?

congrats on being the only person to ever know fortress forever exists

why thank you fellow bearer of the forgotten arts

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custom capture the flag map