Team Fortress Classic
The final build is Release Candidate (RC) 3.0 which was released on April 18, 2005. FA was originally created by Caspar Milan Nielsen, Christian Øelund, and Brian Fuller. Versions 2.0 through (RC) 2.5 were developed under the leadership and lead programming of Eric Smith (Zerk). Firearms 2.4 was included in the "Counter-Strike" retail package and was later awarded "PC Gamer"'s Mod of the Year award and "PC Gamer"'s Best Multiplayer Game of the Year Runner-up in the year 2000. Firearms was at one time the #3 most popular mod based on the Half-Life engine, after "Counter-Strike" and "Team Fortress Classic". Later versions, (RC) 2.6 through (RC) 3.0, were developed under the direction of Ben Irwin.