1. Team Fortress 2
  2. News

Team Fortress 2 News

Valve says it sees 'how large' Team Fortress 2's bot problem is, and will actually do something




Valve continues to low-key maintain Team Fortress 2, but it remains one of the biggest games on Steam regardless—as I'm writing this, just over 75,000 people are playing. Not bad for a 15 year-old title, and the Team Fortress 2 community knows two things: it loves their game, and it hates bots...
Read more.

You can now play through Team Fortress 2's Meet the Spy short




Way back in the day, Valve had a wonderful idea for marketing Team Fortress 2—it made a bunch of high-quality shorts that were both funny and encapsulated something about the team member they focused on. Everyone has their favourite (Pyro is best, as always) but they're all pretty great, and one of the best was Meet the Spy...
Read more.

Team Fortress 2 actor wants Valve to fix the TF2 bot problem

While it's been going on for a while now, in the last week the community is giving a lot of attention to the ongoing Team Fortress 2 bot problem - and now, the TF2 medic voice actor Robin Atkin Downes has come out in support of the multiplayer game's issues, and will apparently speak with Valve about it.


Apparently starting with Team Fortress 2 player SquimJim, who posted a video (via IGN, which calls TF2 "literally unplayable" now) complaining about the two-plus years-long bot problem the long-running FPS game seems to be afflicted by - which some suspect could be tied to the leak of TF2's source code in 2020 - and urged the community to pressure Valve into doing something about it.


Now, it seems like even Team Fortress 2's voice actors are speaking out against the issue. It seems like concerned players were also pinging Robin Atkin Downes - who voices the Medic in TF2 and Kazuhira Miller in Metal Gear Solid 5, amongst many roles - who has now responded with his support.


Read the rest of the story...


RELATED LINKS:

Valve is making TF2 modding easier by waiving a $50K fee

Scream Fortress XIII is here to remind us that TF2 is at least undead, if not alive

Two major Team Fortress 2 mods are temporarily down "due to an arrangement with Valve"

The 2021 Winter Jam Showcase



Last month, the TF2 creative community wrapped on another annual creation jam and now you can check out the showcase of all the finished works! All made in the timeframe of 72 hours, this year's jam brought in 345 entries and raised $10,155.82 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!

Check out the Showcase thread HERE! Want to be involved next time or get into the thriving content creation community? Join the TF2Maps Discord!

The 2021 Winter Jam Showcase





Last month, the TF2 creative community wrapped on another annual creation jam and now you can check out the showcase of all the finished works! All made in the timeframe of 72 hours, this year's jam brought in 345 entries and raised $10,155.82 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!




Check out the Showcase thread HERE! Want to be involved next time or get into the thriving content creation community? Join the TF2Maps Discord!