Teams

In Team Fortress 2 Classic, two teams compete against each other: RED (Reliable Excavation & Demolition) and BLU (Builders League United). These teams make up the two teams in regular maps. There are also two more teams, GRN (Global Radio Network) and YLW (Yard Logistics Workers), which a player can join if they are playing in a Four-Team map.

In-game

During a game, players work with their team to fulfill the objectives of the game mode they're playing. In certain gamemodes such as Attack / Defense, the team's roles may be asymmetrical, in which case, RED is the defending team and BLU is the attacking team.

Some classes have weapons that are designed to interact with a player's team, for example, the Medic's Medi Gun is used to heal teammates and the Civilian's Umbrella, once ready, grants a teammate Mini-crits.

Team Selection

RED

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  RED (Reliable Excavation & Demolition) logo

BLU

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  BLU (Builders League United) logo

GRN

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  GRN (Global Radio Network) logo
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  Early GRN architecture concept - Blaholtzen
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  A similar early GRN architecture concept - Blaholtzen

YLW

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  YLW (Yard Logistics Workers) Logo
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  Early YLW architecture concept - Blaholtzen
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  A similar early YLW architecture concept - Blaholtzen
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  A concept of a YLW base, halfway through creating the designs​ - Mazern

All

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  Four-Team Shape Language - Mazern

Classes

Main article: Classes

A team can consist of a maximum of 32 players on Two-Team, and 16 players on Four-Team, each being one of nine main Classes. Each class is designed to be functionally different than the others and has weapons, to fulfill a particular role within a team. All of the main nine classes are split into 3 sub-groups: Offense, Defense and Support. TF2C also introduces a special class, the Civilian, who by default only appears in the VIP and VIP Race gamemodes, but can be made accessible in other gamemodes by setting tf2c_allow_special_classes to 1 in the console.

Spectator

In Spectator Mode, a player can watch the match through any participating player's eyes, in either first or third person view, or alternately switch to freecam mode. Spectators can freely move around the map, in or out of bounds. Spectators cannot use weapons, nor pick a class. Unlike in live TF2, switching to spectator does not remove dominations.