FortRounds

Forts-style building inside ROUNDS. Spend a regenerating energy bar to drop bracing, armor and auto-firing guns onto the map mid-fight.

Concept and design by Jeremiah Justis. A fan mod: it ships no assets from either game. Forts is by EarthWork Games, ROUNDS is by Landfall.

Playing

The card bar appears at the bottom of the screen whenever a fight is on.

• 1-8: pick a piece (press again to put it away)
• 9: scrap tool, click one of your pieces to remove it for half its cost back
• Left click: place at the cursor
• R: rotate a strut 45°, or flip which way a gun faces
• Right click: cancel

While a card is selected, the mouse builds instead of shooting and blocking.

Rules

• Pieces must be within reach of your player and joined to solid ground, directly or through other struts. Guns sit on ground or on a strut.
• Anything that loses its connection to the ground collapses, and takes its guns with it.
• Struts are solid for every player and have no weight limit. Only damage and lost support bring a piece down.
• Your team's bullets pass through your team's pieces. Enemy bullets hit them.
• Guns pick their own targets: enemy players first, then enemy guns.
• Flak ignores players. It fires at enemy bullets and bursts beside them, deleting every enemy bullet in the blast.
• Everything is cleared between points, and energy resets.

Energy and costs

The bar holds 10 energy, starts each point at 5 and refills 1 every 2.8 seconds. Costs come from the prices in Forts' own data files, with metal and energy folded into one number and squeezed onto the 1-10 bar.

| Piece | Cost | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Bracing | 1 | | | Machine Gun | 2 | 7-round bursts | | Sniper | 3 | Long range, one hard-hitting shot | | Armor | 4 | | | Flak | 4 | Shoots bullets, not players | | Minigun | 4 | Spins up, 13-round bursts | | Mortar | 5 | Lobs over walls, splash damage | | Cannon | 9 | Slow, wrecks whatever it hits |

Playing with friends

Host and invite through ROUNDS as usual. Everyone in the game needs FortRounds; if someone doesn't have it, building stays off and the match plays as plain ROUNDS.

Test mode (single player)

Open the Sandbox. The same card bar appears, plus F6 fast energy, F7 drop a hostile fort at the cursor, F8 clear every piece.

Limits

Building is mouse-driven, so a controller player cannot build. Pieces only anchor to solid scenery, not to swinging or falling map objects.

License

MIT: use it, change it, remix it, and keep the credit line.