The Weapons Factory (also abbreviated as WF) is a series of video gamecapture the flagclass-basedmods, originally created for Quake II by brothers Tom "Tumorhead" Reno and Gregg "Headache" Reno. It since has had several incarnations (six plus three currently in development) on most of the predominant FPS games released since 1998 (in the Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and ''Tribes series...).
The Weapons Factory is partly based on the Team Fortress mod for QuakeWorld. Its idea sprung when Quake II was announced but the Team Fortress development team decided to join Valve Software and work on a Half-Life sequel to the mod instead of a Quake II one. It consists of two teams of six players each who can choose between seven to ten classes of combatants (depending on the incarnation of WF) each having their own specificities and special abilities, amongst which is a grappling hook (Weapons Factory's signature).
In the Quake Series
Weapons Factory (Quake II)
History
Gregg Reno started programming Weapons Factory (WF or Q2WF) as an experiment to learn how to create a Quake 2 mod while his brother started looking at how to build maps. Weapons Factory was the first CTF-type mod to be released (on March 61998), only two days after Zoid's Q2 CTF source was published and as such got some press and early success. They soon decided to merge with another mod, Star Troopers by John "Cryect" Rittenhouse on May 11998, which had a vast arsenal of weapons that WF lacked. The initial versions of WF featuring only three classes (notably version 2.1b, the "merger" one), they had to bring this number up to six (final beta version 2.2) and then nine (version 3.0) simply to have somebody to give the weapons to. In that configuration, it fulfilled their goal of creating something close to a Team Fortress for Quake II.
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