Team Fortress 2 News

13/5/25 A new update published by Valve confirms that voice commands and party chat have been re-enabled for all players, regardless of account status.

In the new Team Fortress 2 update, Valve says that it has "relaxed in-game chat restrictions for certain accounts." On the surface, that would seem to suggest that anybody playing TF2 for free will now be able to use the in-game text and chat functions again - since 2020, those features have been unavailable to anybody without a premium account. However, while some free players report that the chat systems are, indeed, usable now, others say that they are not. Half-Life 3 may be Valve's biggest mystery, but something strange is happening in TF2.

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• Fixed some players not being able to start Friends Only servers
  

• Fixed some players not being able to start Friends Only servers
  

• Re-enabled all players to be able to use voice commands and party chat
  
• Added more detailed options for server visibility and privacy when creating a server
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