Tactical Ops: Crossfire Release Date

Well this is actually April 1 news (I’m a day late), but it’s not April Fools. Do any of you remember the alias MadOnion? He was the head of TOST, that Tactical Ops anticheat app way back when, and I had lots of chats with him back in the day. Anyways now he’s the lead coder for TO:C, that’s Tactical Ops: Crossfire for UT2004, the mod that was announced on April 1 of last year. Well on year later, they are ready to go. They have announced an April 28 launch date for their first public release. Actually it will be a slam BANG of a release, since they will prep the community to be up and running from the first minute. Here’s how: Downloads of the server app will be made available one week earlier, on April 21. Also the client will be made available for download on that day via bittorrent, but it will be password-encrypted. The password will be released on the official launch day, April 28, when the normal http and ftp download links go live.

In case you missed the original Tactical Ops, it was a semi-realism shooter, that became the most popular mod for the old Unreal Tournament (UT99). TO:Crossfire, like the original, will stay true to its action-oriented roots with well-planned multipathed maps but with beautifully updated looks for the UT2004 engine– that maps are just stunning. Updated screenshots are available at the official site, and the Mac member of the team, Petter, let me know of the ModDB feature URL on TO:C.

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