Hey again! It's been a long while since my last post here, huh?
It is almost the twelfth birthday of Dispenz0r's Fun Server already, and I can't believe that it has already almost been a year since our big finale event.

Perhaps you were (once again) expecting a reboot of the servers, or some sort of new DFS game.
But we have something else a little special prepared for you instead.

To be quite honest, I had been saving this video for something big, or to post it during the day of the 12th birthday of DFS, but who has the time or patience for that, right? Let's consider this an early access release instead.
With no website to broadcast to, Heavich and I decided to return to the roots, and make an encore video for those who still linger somewhere around the web, and for those who have missed the finale event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIhSHiJ_TE

I've seen ripples from the end of the DFS servers in the TF2 community, and it was very heartening.
Now DFS only exists as a memory, as we've moved onto bigger things, and although we still have the occasional get-togethers, the special times are enclosed in the past, as they should be.

My biggest thanks to everyone who has been sticking around, being a part of and contributing to DFS in any way during its lifetime, it's time to move on.

The DFS Discord[discord.com] is still around for the community to hang around and relive the nostalgia in.

Thanks for watching, reading, and enjoy the rest of your lifetime. Farewell everyone.

And that wraps up the finale event!

Thanks for dropping in for our last DFS event ever! We've had more ideas for the finale event that we've unfortunately had to scrap out of concern for instability, but we hope you've enjoyed it regardless!

The DFS Discord[discord.com] may be around for the future if you'd like to get in touch with the community members.

If you haven't seen it already, please check out Heavich's Meet The Random Fortress: Finale below!
https://youtu.be/Fp6f1E8spFk
If you've missed them, here are the group photoshoots we took during both of the finale events
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028298737 (40 players)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028828634
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028821272 (a whopping 64 players on both servers at the same time!)


We also have surprise project(s) in the works that might happen if everything lines up; stick around to find out!

It has certainly been a very long ride. I'm glad to have contributed to a lot of smiles, fun memories, and new friendships.
Growing up with DFS and my friends within the community since childhood meant everything to me, and I'm sure there are many others who feel the same.

Regardless, thank you so much for being a part of this amazing last decade alongside me.

I'll see you on the other side. Take care, everyone.

Hey all, it's been a while!

Valve has finally pushed out their big Summer update(s) fairly recently, while we were expecting something different and bigger, we're pretty thankful that none of our systems and plugins broke down in a bad manner.

Now that everything is mostly prepared and ready, we'll be scheduling to launch our Finale event on 30th and 31st of August.

Due to the community poll decision made in DFS Discord[dfs.tf], we've opted to make a calmer, less plugin intense event with up to 64 players maximum.

The finale event will last two days, we'll be hosting a shorter event on August 30th and a longer event on August 31st.

The second day of the event will last the entire day, giving players enough time to chime in whenever they want, spend as much time as they would like to, and say their farewells to fellow community members on our last DFS event ever.

Feel free to join The DFS Discord[dfs.tf], where we'll be sharing a more detailed schedule for the finale event soon!

We hope to see you all at our final DFS event!

Hey again!
This is a follow-up post on the recent DFS Finale Announcement to inform you all on details of the upcoming finale event.

For starters, I can't say I'm too shocked for Valve to release important TF2 news only 10 days after we announced our DFS news, after many years of no blog posts involving upcoming TF2 updates.

You may remember that we've put an important note in the last announcement regarding the finale event & closure date not being set in stone, this will come into effect today.
After a discussion between me and the higherup staff team, we've decided to delay the finale event and server closure until summer.

This will give us more time to prepare, flesh out and expand on our DFS Finale event, while letting us see where the state of TF2 is headed with the upcoming major update.

Please note: The DFS Finale event will happen, and not be delayed any further than Summer 2023. If any other important changes involving DFS ever happen, we'll make sure to let you know in advance.

In the meantime, I've added a ton of new custom maps for all gamemodes, as well as TF2 Chaos Mod, a RNG based gamemode by Mikusch, as a voteable gamemode to all Vanilla maps for everyone to enjoy and to have fun with!

When the time is right, the date and all details of the finale event will be announced in advance.

Feel free to join us anytime on The DFS Discord[dfs.tf]


As someone who has been around this community and game for more than a decade, I once again give all my thanks to those who have stuck around and supported us over the years.

Please look forward to the Finale event as we aim to make it as special as possible for the entire community!

Hey all! It's still hard to believe that it's been months since the tenth birthday of DFS, isn't it?
Life has been changing a lot in the last few years which I'm sure a lot of you can relate to, time flies really fast doesn't it? After a ton of changes and a multitude of drafts or so of this announcement, it is finally ready to be posted.

I'm sure many of you came in with a lot of different expectations, ranging from a reboot of the servers to continuation of that ancient DFS RPG game. But this announcement is for a different cause; a very important message to the entire DFS community.

First of all, I wish to thank everyone who has been a part of Dispenz0r's Fun Server in any way during its lifetime.

The community regulars who've always been actively playing and shitposting in the servers, those who stuck around from the earlier days, Moderators who have watched over the servers so often to keep things clean and fun for everyone, Developers who have contributed exceptional, unique and unparalleled kind of content & support for the servers, even the individuals who vowed revenge after being banned; thank you so much for being a part of this wild ride.

It's truly been a long time, one filled with amazing and wonderful moments, it has been a one of a kind experience for me and I'm sure many others too. We started this as a stupid little friends server and ended up as a stupid big friends server.
I've seen so many come and go, so many friendships and memories being made, I've even had the honor of having DFS partake in multiple TF2 charity events in the past, and it truly has been heartwarming.

As for myself, DFS is where I grew up. I was so extremely young back then that I had the not so smart idea of implementing paid admins, but all that side of the past aside, I was really enjoying crafting and doing all sorts of new things with the servers and having many others enjoy my experiments brought me bliss. Unfortunately, the same sort of free time is no longer available to me and I'm sure many others too. We all wish we could go back to our childhood when there used to be seasonal major TF2 updates now don't we?
Sadly, not everything lasts forever, and shouldn't be forced to. All good things eventually must come to an end.

What made DFS unique was.. quite frankly, varied few and far between, most of the gamemodes were taken from other communities, our only exclusive gamemode Sandbox was inspired purely by Gmod. The maps were weird but pretty and unique in their own way, the playermodels that brought wackiness to the servers, the plugins being the heart & core of the servers.
But it was always the community and its evolution that made DFS very special, and it is not something that I can easily get back.

As sad as it is for me to say this, I have personally moved on and currently have no intention of returning to tending the DFS servers due to the lack of motivation, the ideas I have had for DFS will need to move on as well.

All that being said; The DFS TF2 servers will be taken down by March 10th, 2023.
Important note: The closure & finale date is not set in stone. If any important change of plans, migration or ownership change of sort happens by said date, we'll make sure to let you know in advance.

The DFS Discord[discord.com] server may continue to live on and will likely be reformed as the community is active around. Feel free to join us anytime.

In these long 10 years, just when you thought we were done with the series after the tenth installment, Heavich presents you with yet another big surprise.

https://youtu.be/Fp6f1E8spFk


I will also be personally holding a DFS finale event, where we experience pleasant nostalgia as we go through the history of DFS together, while saying our last goodbyes before departing from Team Fortress 2, and it will be a big one.

Finale is a linear event with multiple showings. The event will likely be over an hour long and will take you back through the history of Dispenz0r's Fun Server by going through all of our previous main maps one by one. The event will take place throughout early March, and as we approach the date, more information will be revealed and posted on Steam & Discord. Hope to see you all soon!