Is the free version of TFC compatible with the Steam version?

[JMacGill]

Is the free version of Team Fortress Classic (for Half-Life) compatible with the Steam version of TFC for online play? And why is the Steam version not free?

[MλRCO]

Just buy it. 4.99 is actually cheap

[Narcis14]

can u give me the link of that tfc if it's legal..

[pizzahut]

I'm assuming you got an old copy of Half-Life which was published by Sierra or Vivendi. In this case you can use the product key with Steam and get TFC with it.

[urban360]

Is the free version of Team Fortress Classic (for Half-Life) compatible with the Steam version of TFC for online play? And why is the Steam version not free?

there is no free version. if i ever hear some place giving away free steam game i will be scared to even go to such place. the odds free versions is most likely someone trying to hijack your account. if it sounds too good to be true it most likely not.

[callmesuspect]

there is no free version. if i ever hear some place giving away free steam game i will be scared to even go to such place. the odds free versions is most likely someone trying to hijack your account. if it sounds too good to be true it most likely not.

He bought an old copy of Half-Life that has TFC with it.

Simply enter your Serial into steam and it will then gift it to you on your account.

[JMacGill]

there is no free version. if i ever hear some place giving away free steam game i will be scared to even go to such place. the odds free versions is most likely someone trying to hijack your account. if it sounds too good to be true it most likely not.

Actually there is a free version. Team Fortress started as a free mod for Quake and then became Team Fortress Classic, a free mod for Half-Life. It's still available to download, free, and legal. It's just not available on Steam as they now want to charge you for it. It was made for the original retail version of Half Life, but I would be surprised if it didn't work if installed in the Steam version of Hal-Life. I was asking if anyone knows if it's online play compatible with the Steam version of Half-Life but I guess nobody understands the question or knows the answer as I never really got an answer to the question I asked.

Also, I heard that you can no longer register the old half life games on Steam.

[pizzahut]

I was asking if anyone knows if it's online play compatible with the Steam version of Half-Life
No it's not compatible, sorry.

Also, I heard that you can no longer register the old half life games on Steam.
Are you sure? The support article (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601#which) still lists the old 4-5-4 CD key format. I would just try it if you have one of them. I got almost the whole back catalog (http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9341/valvebackcatalog.png) when I registered Blue Shift long time ago, only Condition Zero and Deleted Scenes were missing.

[Sinnah]

Actually there is a free version. Team Fortress started as a free mod for Quake and then became Team Fortress Classic, a free mod for Half-Life. It's still available to download, free, and legal. It's just not available on Steam as they now want to charge you for it. It was made for the original retail version of Half Life, but I would be surprised if it didn't work if installed in the Steam version of Hal-Life. I was asking if anyone knows if it's online play compatible with the Steam version of Half-Life but I guess nobody understands the question or knows the answer as I never really got an answer to the question I asked.


If memory serves me, the free download was the original TFC, which you could then patch up to version 1.5. Since the current Steam version is 1.6, and the free download doesn't come with a CD Key or any other way to register it with Steam, I would suspect it is incompatible.

As others have said, if you have any of the original HL games, even an original pre-Steam CD, registering them with Steam should give you the current version of TFC anyway. I automatically got HL, Op4, BlueShift, CStrike, and TFC when I registered my original HL CD key.

[orangensaft]

Actually, you CAN play with that version on the servers without version check. That would be the Argentinian, Russian and German server. (Localstrike, AIMaster, #Noobi-Heaven)
Although I am almost sure that you need to have TFC as mod in your Steam Half-Life, but I actually only tried it this way.

[Sinnah]

Do you mean you can join 1.6 servers while using the 1.5 client, or are these servers hosting with version 1.5 as if it were a third party mod?

I wasn't aware that it was even possible to join a game that's running a different version from the client. Especially when you consider how different the Steam and free versions of TFC are (teleporters and such).

Obviously, I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I wasn't aware that it could.

[orangensaft]

Well I'm not completely sure about that, and even if it works you will most certainly have to expect errors and crashes at some point, which doesn't mean you couldn't play for some time. But again, I'm not sure. Someone would have to try that, and I don't have the "WON-version" of HL anymore, so.. :|

[Dinosaur Gas]

You can run older versions of TFC as third party mods. I have done this with the 1.1.0.6 version of TFC, which has the uncapped bhop.