Team Fortress 2 News

Team Fortress 2 protests acknowledged with first tweet in 2 years

Team Fortress 2 is often regarded as one of the best video games of all time and can be attributed to the rise of hero shooters that we've seen over the past decade. However, it's far from a perfect game and its players have been suffering a lot over the last couple of years with rampant issues with bot accounts - despite Valve's efforts to deter them. Now, after members of the Team Fortress 2 community banded together to get Valve's attention with the hashtag #savetf2, Valve has broken it's social media silence with the following message:

" 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."

The statement above, that was posted at 00:40 GMT on May 27 is the first message posted on the official Team Fortress 2 social media account since July 18, 2020, and a retweeted Valve tweet on October 3, 2020.

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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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