Status of the project

[ghost]

Perhaps I am very much a latecomer but I've finally tried the Steam release and can't catch anyone on. Development seems to be at a standstill. I would be more than willing to help out but I would need to use Wine for virtually anything since I've been a dedicated Linux user for over 5 years now (this is a flaw with Valve tools being virtually un-portable outside of Windows, i.e Hammer). Are the developers still around and is there a "roadmap" for the future, or is FF essentially done for/complete?

I was looking at issue #331 and I think its a good question. Porting FF to a newer version of Source, perhaps Source 2013, would not only improve graphical fidelity but should also allow exporting to OSX/Linux and fix some legacy cruft. For example, it seems that FF uses Internet Explorer to download custom content. I'm not sure if this was a behavior of Source or the mod, but I'm assuming that Source at the time did this, as I have not seen such behavior from newer versions of Source (even the Windows ports).

I'm just asking this because FF is outside the "casual" status, meaning I only ever see people on FF for pickups instead of just playing casually. Its a shame as someone who mostly plays TFC (which itself is at the mercy of the few people who still get on).

[gumbuknine]

pubs with a decent amount of people very much happen multiple times a week; you can join the discord server to know when those are happening, we've got a bot that notifies anyone when enough people have gathered ingame, you can also queue up for the pickups there as it's where they're handled too. you're more than welcome to join, here's the link

[ghost]

I switched to Riot/Element from Discord years ago, but good to know.