Soldier Front · Dragonfly, 2004 · Soldier Front Legacy by TeamVanilla, 2026

Build 1 · protocol 24

OpenSFSoldier Front Legacy
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OpenSFSoldier Front Legacy

Soldier Front, reconstructed as a new game and a new server that play the original's 40 maps, 82 weapons and 12 forces. Sign in once with a Team Vanilla account and play on any server, or run one of your own.

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In the game

Taken from the game itself on DirectX 12 at 1920 x 1080, by its own automated walk through every screen.

Desert Camp in third person, which a room may allow: running past the truck

Desert Camp in third person, which a room may allow: running past the truck

  • Desert Camp in third person, which a room may allow: running past the truck
  • Pirate Mode on the Pirate Ship: pirates and marines fight over three strongholds on the beach
  • Desert Camp: firing beside the helicopter, with the four-kill streak's Special Force mark and the kill feed
  • Sentosa: the monorail over the street
  • Horror Mode 2 on Village Horror: an undead at arm's length, your health down to 43
  • The waiting room: two sides of bots, the map's briefing and the room's five options
  • Manning one of the Pirate Ship's cannons: fire shoots it, E leaves it
  • The Weapon Shop: each gun for 7, 30 or 90 days, or for good
  • The emblem maker: a clan's emblem built from shapes and pictures, shown at 64, 32 and 16 pixels
  • Snow Camp from a spawn
  • The staff panel's Events, kept by SFLegacy Staff: the calendar, each event with its bonuses, quests and banner

Every screenshot, by part of the game

What OpenSF is

The game

legacysf.exe plays Soldier Front's own maps, weapons, soldiers, sounds and lobby art, read from the game's data where it lies. The program around them is new: the renderer, the menus, the netcode, the options.

The server

LegacySFServer is the same server Team Vanilla runs, for anyone to run on Windows or Linux. It plays all 12 game types, with bots, recordings, its own staff, channels, shop and content.

One account

Team Vanilla's account service keeps each player's sign-in, rank, record, SP, items, clan and friends, and lists the servers. It is the same everywhere, so nobody starts over on a new server.

Anyone can run a server, the game reads one public list of them, and a server can add content that players download as they join. Through all of it a player keeps one Team Vanilla account and one record, on every server.

What is new

What a player of the original notices first, and what a server owner gets.

Past the old frame cap

The original client holds itself to 32 frames a second. Soldier Front Legacy has no cap of its own: the frame limit is yours, from 30 to 360 frames a second, 144 to begin with, and vertical sync is a switch.

  • DirectX 12 first, then DirectX 11, then OpenGL. A renderer that cannot start hands over to the next and says so.
  • Real pixels at any Windows scaling: a 2880 x 1800 screen at 125% is drawn at 2880 x 1800.
  • A window or the whole screen (borderless, so Alt+Tab is instant), in 4:3, 5:4, 16:10, 16:9 or 21:9, stretched as the original was on a wide screen or kept in shape between black bars.
  • Anti-aliasing at 2x, 4x or 8x, and texture filtering up to 16x.

The options

Venezia with the net graph on, drawn larger in the box: 141 frames a second, the lowest 102 over the last few seconds, at a 14 ms ping
Venezia with the net graph on, drawn larger in the box: 141 frames a second, the lowest 102 over the last few seconds, at a 14 ms ping

Controllers as well as the mouse

Xbox controllers (anything XInput), DualShock 4 and DualSense, by cable or Bluetooth.

  • Every action is a button you set as you set a key: click its plate, press the button. Out of the box, A jumps, RT fires, LT scopes and the d-pad opens the radio lists.
  • In the menus the left stick is the pointer and A clicks, so every lobby page works without a mouse.
  • Look speed, up and down against across, dead zones, invert, a smooth or a linear stick, and vibration for hits, blasts and shots.
  • No aim assist. A controller plays the same match as a mouse, on the same terms.

Controls and controllers

Options, Controls, Controller: the sticks, dead zones and vibration on the left, each action's button on the right
Options, Controls, Controller: the sticks, dead zones and vibration on the left, each action's button on the right

One account on every server

  • Make a Team Vanilla account in the game: a username and a password, no email address.
  • Your rank, record, SP, Coins, weapons, clan, friends and mail are Team Vanilla's to keep and follow you to every server, official or community.
  • A server never sees your password. Your game shows it a short-lived ticket that Team Vanilla signed.
  • Friends, whispers and mail go between your game and Team Vanilla directly, never through the server you are on, so no server owner can read them.

Your account

The first page: the server list with its All, Official, Community and Favourites tabs, and This PC to play and host on your own machine
The first page: the server list with its All, Official, Community and Favourites tabs, and This PC to play and host on your own machine

A server of your own

  • One program for Windows, or for Linux on x86-64 and ARM64, with a systemd unit and a container file.
  • Register it on Team Vanilla's control panel. It is listed once Team Vanilla can reach it from the internet.
  • Name your own staff (Admin, Game Master, Moderator), set the channels and the message of the day, and choose who may join: a rank range, a kill/death ratio, a password.
  • Add your own weapons, maps and characters as packs, which players download as they join (50 MB in all), and sell them in your server's shop for SP.
  • Matches on your server count toward rank and record as they do anywhere else.

Running a server

The staff panel's Shop: what the server sells, for how long and for how much
The staff panel's Shop: what the server sells, for how long and for how much

Every game type

All 12 game types of the original's waiting room, each played by its own rules on the server: Team Battle with its Destroy, Take Back, Escape and Dual missions, Team Deathmatch, Single Battle, Sniper Mode, Capture the Captain, Captain Mode, Horror Mode, Horror Mode 2, Team Slayer, Occupy, Pirate Mode and Training, across 40 maps.

Bots fill a room and play the objective: they plant and defuse, carry the item home, take the consoles and the strongholds.

The game types

Pirate Mode on the Pirate Ship: pirates and marines fight over three strongholds on the beach
Pirate Mode on the Pirate Ship: pirates and marines fight over three strongholds on the beach

The same game for everyone

  • Base weapons, forces and parts keep their official numbers on every server. An owner can add; nobody can rebalance.
  • No server can sell a base item below Team Vanilla's price, or spend your SP without your say.
  • Team Vanilla checks every match report, and one that could not have happened is refused.
  • Report a player or call a vote to kick from the match menu. Staff see the reports and the match recordings.
  • A map keeps its own light, hour and sky, and smoke and flash-bangs are drawn in full: no option thins them.

Fair play

The match menu: resume, settings, report a player, a vote to kick, the staff panel, leave
The match menu: resume, settings, report a player, a vote to kick, the staff panel, leave

Windows, Linux, macOS and Android

Made to play on all four and to host on Windows and Linux. Every server takes players from every system alike: one account, one record, the same match.

Windows

DirectX 12, then DirectX 11, then OpenGL. Xbox, DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers. The game and the server.

The game and the server are in build 1

Linux

OpenGL ES 3 on your own graphics driver, on X11 or on Wayland through XWayland. Xbox, DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers. Plays and hosts, with This PC as on Windows; the server runs on x86-64 and ARM64, as a service or in a container.

The game and the server are in build 1

macOS

Apple Silicon, through ANGLE on Metal, with Apple's own game controller support. Plays on every server; a Mac holds no server.

Built on a Mac: not in build 1 yet

Android

OpenGL ES 3, the Soldier Front data carried in its own package. Touch controls made for the match, or a controller. Plays on every server; a phone holds no server.

The game is in build 1

Platforms in full

Why we made it

Every official Soldier Front server has been shut down, and the game is not sold anywhere today. What is left is a 2004 client that holds itself to 32 frames a second, knows no controller, and can only reach the servers it was built for.

We reconstructed Soldier Front so it can be played on today's PCs and hosted by anyone who wants to, with one account and one record for every player, and without changing what Soldier Front was: the maps, their light and hours, the weapons and their numbers are the original's.

Why we made it, and what it does for everyone

Get playing

  1. DownloadDrag the game (6.3 MB) into your Soldier Front folder, beside its data, and run legacysf.exe there. Nothing is installed.
  2. Make your accountOn the first page choose Sign in, then make an account: a username and a password. Then choose your code name and first force.
  3. Pick a serverTeam Vanilla's servers are listed first, community servers below them. This PC plays on your own machine, with bots or friends on your network.
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The current release

Build 1 protocol 24 · pack format 1 · 5 October 2026

  • The game for Windows, and the first server anyone can run, for Windows and for Linux (x86-64 and ARM64).
  • Sign-in with a Team Vanilla account; rank, record, SP, Coins, base items, clans, friends and mail kept by Team Vanilla for every server.
  • The server list: Team Vanilla's servers first, then everyone's, each listed once it can be reached.
  • Server roles (Owner, Admin, Game Master, Moderator), channels, the game types and maps each server plays, the server's own shop and capsules, and packs downloaded on joining.

What is in it