LogInYou can no longer play Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64.
The fan project Team Fortress: Source 2, which aimed to bring Valve's iconic multiplayer to the Source 2 engine, has been shut down. The project faced development challenges and was essentially on hold since September 2023, and now Valve's DMCA takedown has ended it, as the creators explained on Twitter.
"The TF2 assets have been ported to Source 2 without permission and are being redistributed by Amper Software in a game mode for Facepunch's S@box. Facepunch has not licensed any Valve assets for S@box. The unauthorized porting and redistributing of Valve's assets without a license violates Valve's IP," reads the notice.
Well, it seems that the creators of Team Fortress: Source 2 wanted to halt the project even earlier, due to major changes in the s&box engine.
Earlier, the developer of Portal 64, a fan-made version of Portal for the Nintendo 64, also revealed that Valve had banned the project. James Lambert stated that the company contacted him and requested that the project be shut down because it uses proprietary Nintendo libraries. Speaking of which, at the end of 2023, the developer released a demo version of the fan-made game, its "First Slice".
Valve is actually known for not prohibiting fan projects for its games, yet in the case of Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64, the company could have found some serious violations if it came to that decision.
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