A new patch is in the works for the Half-Life 2 fan mod, Fortress-Forever. The team will make use of a distribution service dubbed Crosus, a system that is "similar to Steam."
DrEvil of the FF team states..There will be torrents also available that features the full 1.1 download (597MB) of the mod as well as an incremental update for 1.0 > 1.1 (87.1MB).
There is a lot to gain by having the ability to provide small incremental updates to the game, especially for a small team. Had we released 1.0 on CrosuS we could have been rolling out more frequent updates all this time. The 'release early and often' concept is very difficult to pull off on a small team. Alot of effort goes into just the packaging and uploading of distributable content, finding mirrors, etc. CrosuS saves time on the developer and user side.
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