Team Fortress 2 News

Valve responds to Team Fortress 2 fans' #SaveTF2 campaign

Good news for Team Fortress 2 fans, especially those participating in the recent #SaveTF2 campaign, a 'peaceful protest' aimed at reminding Valve that their FPS game is still loved and enjoyed by many players in spite of TF2's long standing bot woes. Valve has now officially acknowledged the problem - or, at least, felt moved enough to dig the password for the official TF2 twitter account out of a drawer and post for the first time in almost two years.

"TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things." Those are the words posted to the Team Fortress Twitter account - a small gesture of recognition, perhaps, but one that will come as very welcome to some fans who feel Valve has been too silent on the free-to-play game's recent troubles.

By far the game's most complained-about issue is bots, with a plague of aimbots affecting the game since the leak of TF2's source code in 2020. However, leading community figures also say they feel that a game that still regularly hits 75,000 concurrent players (currently sitting at number seven on the steam player charts at the time of writing) deserves regular updates that have been largely absent over the last few years.

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How Team Fortress 2's silly videos sparked a whole new era of shooters

Despite being almost 15 years old, Team Fortress 2's influence on the shooter genre continues. Specifically, it's impressive at its age that its cast is still recognisable to a younger portion of gaming fans. It's pretty wild, actually, that we all collectively know a game's characters and personalities without having needed to play the game, right? My first introduction to Team Fortress 2 wasn't through gameplay or through a friend's recommendation, it was through its animated character shorts...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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