There's a Mod For That: Modder Recreates Splatoon in Team Fortress 2

Steven Bogos

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There's a Mod For That: Modder Recreates Splatoon in Team Fortress 2

Splat Fortress does an admirable job of porting Nintendo's ink-based shooter to PC.

If you want to play Team Fortress 2 [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/splatoon] modder has gone about porting Nintendo's ink-based shooter to the PC. Splat Fortress is very, very rough around the edges, but all of the basics of Splatoon are there. You paint the floor and the walls with a paint gun, and splat your opponents with said gun. You can turn into a squid to swim rapidly through your own team's ink, and that stupid cat even shows up at the end to tally up the scores (though his TF2 incarnation is considerably more grumpy).

There are quite a few limitations, though. You can only play as the demoman, and the paint is shot out of your grenade launcher in big blocky squares, rather than the inky splotches of Splatoon, and there is just the one weapon and one map so far. Nonetheless, it is an impressive effort, and shows off just how versatile Team Fortress 2 is, even after all these years.

The mod is not available to the public yet, but we'll keep an eye on it and let you know when it gets a release.

Source: Steam [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/drlilrobotsmodels#]

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CardinalPiggles

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Anyone else remember that TF2 mod for Minecraft? Imagine Splatoon within TF2 within Minecraft.

*Head explodes*
 

MonsterCrit

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You're a Trout now You're a scout Now. You're a trout you're a Scout, you're a Trout you're a Scout..

This is why they call it the PC Master Race. We see something we like. We make a Mod for that Shit.
 

Redlin5_v1legacy

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The fact TF2 is considered an old game just reminds me of how slow I am at getting games... <.<

Feels like yesterday.

Anyway, I will play this.
 

vallorn

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Well that didn't take very long. I look forwards to running around as a Demoman with a paint launcher when that's publicly released.

MonsterCrit said:
You're a Trout now You're a scout Now. You're a trout you're a Scout, you're a Trout you're a Scout..
That's... Beautiful.

This is why they call it the PC Master Race. We see something we like. We make a Mod for that Shit.
 

PinkiePyro

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*headesk* i like Tf2 and all but this is just lame compared to the real thing its like real cream cheese vs that tofu crap
 

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MonsterCrit said:
You're a Trout now You're a scout Now. You're a trout you're a Scout, you're a Trout you're a Scout..
http://i.imgur.com/9XQ1zCL.gif
There has to be a full version of this!

OT: Wow... So far, it looks like it has even less content than Splatoon on Day 1... If this mod ever goes public, it better have more than 3 5 maps, at least...
 

Fijiman

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TheSYLOH said:
You would think that with Portal 2's paint mechanic, this would look better....
One would think, but I'm sure the guy who made this is far from done. Or at least he better not be.
 

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Fijiman said:
TheSYLOH said:
You would think that with Portal 2's paint mechanic, this would look better....
One would think, but I'm sure the guy who made this is far from done. Or at least he better not be.
Article notes this mod isnt available to everyone yet, so one assumes not.
 

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TheSYLOH said:
You would think that with Portal 2's paint mechanic, this would look better....
Fijiman said:
One would think, but I'm sure the guy who made this is far from done. Or at least he better not be.
Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2 run on entirely different builds of the Source engine. Sadly, the fact of the matter is, the TF2 build just doesn't have the dynamic fluid/paint effect system that the P2 build has.

Now, the modders could, hypothetically, crowbar the paint system into the TF2 build, but that would require turning the mod into a stand-alone, since they'd have to effectively rebuild the engine or port the content over to the P2 build.
 

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Redlin5 said:
The fact TF2 is considered an old game just reminds me of how slow I am at getting games... <.<

Feels like yesterday.

Anyway, I will play this.
Nah, it just shows how timeless TF2 really is. All thanks to that art style, and despite the eh... blemishes on said art style thanks to certain updates.
 

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Why does Nintendo have to be such a colossal jerk about it? Unless the videos were monetized, they shouldn't worry one bit..