Melee Fort

Melee Fort is a series of maps created by The Asylum of the Devitory for Team Fortress 2. They cover almost every gametype in TF2, including some non-supported gametypes. At its final update, there were ten released Melee Fort maps, with two additional ancillary maps.

Map Gametypes

 * Arena
 * Event
 * Control Points
 * Capture the Flag
 * Deathmatch
 * Duel
 * King of the Hill
 * Payload Race
 * Reverse Capture the Flag
 * Special Delivery
 * Chooser
 * Random Chooser

Meleefort
Prior to Melee Fort, Asylum had developed a series of maps called Meleefort, early into his mapmaking career, prior to the Medic Update in 2008. These maps utilized sending kill inputs to players' weapons, stripping all but their melee weapons. When the inventory system was introduced with the Medic Update, these inputs caused the game to crash. This, coupled with the maps using sv_cheats console commands to enable weapon stripping, significantly hampered Meleefort gaining popularity. Unable to develop a workaround without using server-side plugins, Asylum chose to retire the Meleefort series.

Rebirth as Melee Fort
In 2010, when the kill input crash was fixed, Asylum took to rebuilding Meleefort from the ground up, renamed to Melee Fort. On 13 February 2010, Asylum posted a screenshot of a rebuilt Slobberknocker Storehouse Control Point on TF2Maps.net, announcing his intentions to the world.

Initially, only five builds of Melee Fort were made- Arena, CP, CTF, DM, and KOTH. With the A4 release, DUEL was added as a gametype. A5 introduced the Titantron gimmicks, where a button inside the stage spawns could be hit to play a video and music in the corresponding team's courtyard. A6 included the first incarnation of the Chooser map. While A9 removed the Chooser due to technical problems, A10 introduced PLR, and A11 provided RCTF. After a disastrous preliminary build, SD was added as a gametype in A13, which also enabled Engineers to build Dispensers and Teleporters. A13 also came with a new and improved Chooser, as well as a melee-only failsafe system. The last build released was A16, which presented the Random Chooser.

On 6 July 2015, after a yearlong hiatus from mapmaking, Asylum announced that Melee Fort had been discontinued, due to the shrinking of the funmap scene in TF2.