Smash Fortress

Smash Fortress
Smash Fortress is a popular Team fortress 2 mod-gamemode. It uses custom-made maps and requires a plugin to play. Smash Fortress is a private mod. The plugin isn’t available to the public. Because of this there are only roughly 4 servers in total running the mod. Smash Fortress was crated November, 2012. Smash Fortress is where players have to knock each other off floating platform maps. Smash Fortress was inspired by Super Smash Brothers by Nintendo.

Gameplay
The goal of this gamemode is to knock off as many players as possible for your team in a round. To gain knockouts the player must knock the opponent off the map and into the void. When a new round starts each player is granted 3 lives once you get to zero you will not respawn for the rest of the round. Depending on the map, and number of players on the server rounds can end in 2 ways. 1, the most common way a round ends is that everyone on one team runs out of extra lives before the timer runs out and the other team is declared the winner because you lost all of your teammates. Or 2: the timer runs out before everyone on a team is defeated leaving some left alive. If this situation arises the team with more remaining players and lives wins. The main mechanic of Smash Fortress is the health system used in gameplay. In Smash Fortress rather then health being depleted by receiving damage, player’s have an on-screen heath percentage number that will increase because of damage. This number acts as a multiplier of how much knockback a player will take. Basically players become easier and easier to push back the more damage they take after hits. So players who have a high percentage will be more likely to be pushed off the map. This mechanic of the health system mocks: Super Smash Brothers and it's sequels. Commonly on most servers Super Smash Brothers music is played in the background during the match.