![]() When he found there was no legal ground to stop the FA2 Team, he lent them his conditional support. Eventually, the FA Team prevailed upon former FA Team Leader Eric “Zerk” Smith to intervene. The FA Team argued with the FA2 Team for quite awhile, to no avail. For a while, they redirected to the site of our follow-up mod, World at War. The server takeover didn't affect the domain names, so the FA Team still controls those. As a result, this website was rebuilt from archived sites. ![]() Every single team member and most of the forum admin/mod staff were banned, and we lost all of our art source and personal files stored on the server. The same can't be said for the Firearms 2 Team, who kicked off their mod in August 2005 by hijacking the Firearms Forums, FTP, and servers using back-door access supplied by our server provider, ReconGamer. They could recreate FA from scratch, but they agreed to not use our name. When Source was out and FA was still in production, a Source mod started up under the name “Firearms: Revival.” We, the FA Team, spoke with them and came to an agreement. If someone wants to steal or take over your mod and use its name, there is nothing you can do. This is an official public service announcement. Firearms was a great mod, wasn't it? Here was the final news post and all the content of what remains of the site: ![]() ![]() I saw this at the Firearms site and knowing that not everyone will visit their site I thought I should post it here. ![]()
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