Welcome to the forum! Info and rules here

[Leslie Clarke]

Greetings mercenaries, and welcome to the unofficial TF2 Classic-forum! Thank you for checking this place out and enjoy your stay.

As the name would suggest, this is a forum for everyone who plays or is interested in the Source-mod Team Fortress 2 Classic. Artistic works, exciting gameplay-footage, haranguing about what weapon is the best, and a healthy dose of memes… All are welcome here!

Also as the name would suggest, this is an unofficial forum. It has no connection to and is not managed by TF2 Classic’s developers! There are other, official gathering-spots for the game’s community, however, and they are linked below.

This forum was originally created in February, 2022. After a short while it was, sadly, abandoned, left to be prayed upon by every TF2-player’s arch-enemy: spam-bots. However, in June, 2024, the forum was relaunched, the dust having been wiped off and all of the spam and spam-accounts ruthlessly dealt with.

The rules

• Respect ProBoard’s Terms of Service. This forum is kindly hosted by ProBoards and all users are expected to respect their rules as well.
• Be kind to one another. No-one wants to deal with a jerk, so treat others with respect and engage them in good faith. This includes respecting people’s pronouns and gender- or sexual identities, opinions, religious beliefs, etc. You too should expect to be treated respectfully by others! Hate, harassment, and threats have no place here.
• No porn, gore, or other shock-content. This place isn’t necessarily meant to be child-friendly, but you should be able to view it while on the bus without having to worry. (Obviously you can post images of gibbed players. )
• Do not post instructions on exploits or cheats. The less a cheat / exploit is spread the better; it’s therefore against the rules to post (links to) cheats or instructions for performing exploits. This rule does not apply to patched exploits or methods of cheating, and it’s also OK to make informative posts as long as it’s kept vague enough that one couldn’t reproduce the exploit. Exploits / methods of cheating should be responsibly disclosed to TF2 Classic’s developers and/or, if applicable, Valve. This rule applies to all exploits and cheats regardless of whether such a responsible disclosure has been made.
  
• Keep to the topic. Adhere to the topic of the board and thread you’re in. If the discussion starts veering off consider spinning it off as its own thread on a relevant board. (This rule is somewhat relaxed, but still in effect, for the “Memes”- and “Off-topic memes”-boards.)
• Spam stickies, not posts. Spam is not allowed, be it adverts for products or services, community-services, or just noise. Don’t unnecessarily tag people, especially repeatedly or en masse. Unduly long thread-titles also count as spam. (This rule is somewhat relaxed, but still in effect, for the “Memes”- and “Off-topic memes”-boards.)
• Give credit where credit is due. When posting things others have made (e.g. a gameplay-video, custom model, or an animation), credit the original author(s). Ideally you should also provide a link to one or more of their social media-accounts or to their website if they have one. You should link to the thing they made directly rather than mirroring it by uploading it elsewhere.
• No offensive display- or usernames. If you’re using a dubious display-name you may be asked to change it; if your username is concerned you may be asked to come back with another one. (In the latter case your forum-account will be deleted.)
  

These rules are in place to keep this forum a friendly and nice place for everyone, so please respect them. They are enforced by the forum’s moderators: currently just Leslie Clarke . (Hey, being the lone staff-member means job-security! ) When enforcing the rules, dialogue is favoured over sanctions. Repeated and/or particularly egregious offences will lead to being banned, however.

Some boards have local rules, stickied to the top of the board, in addition to the rules above. Sometimes the rules are amended; when they are, an announcement is made on the “Announcements”-board.

By the way…

• …if you’ve registered with the forum, feel free to introduce yourself on the “Welcome”-board! (Wondering what to say? Here’s an example.)
  
• …you can ask questions about the forum or suggest things for it on the “Suggestions and questions”-board.
• …this forum uses the Extended Thread Titles-plugin, giving you a whopping 200 (two hundred!) characters to play with.
• …your profile has fields for your pronouns, Steam-ID, favourite map, class, etc.
• …attachments have been disabled on this forum, so files you add to your posts will have to be linked.
• …threads are locked when over 30 days have passed without new replies.
• …if you include pictures in your post, please give them alt-texts for the benefit of users who use screen-readers.
  

Some links

• TF2 Classic’s official website (tf2classic.com)
• Download / update the game!
  
• Official wiki
• Server-list (lists the “official” VaultF4-servers and voluntarily verified servers)
  
• Official socials:
  • Discord-server
  • Twitter-account for the game (@⁠tf2classic) and Eminoma (@⁠EminomaTeam)
  • YouTube-channel
  • Subreddit (r/tf2classic)
  • Steam-group
    
• Competitive community Discord-server
• Mapping-community Discord-server
  
• Mods on GameBanana
• VaultF4’s forum