Team Fortress 2 News

If Valve won't remake Team Fortress 2, these modders will

It's no secret that Team Fortress 2 doesn't get the love it ought to in 2021. At the ripe age of 14, ongoing updates for Valve's exceptional FPS have slowed to a crawl. The TF2 of today is essentially in maintenance mode, seeing occasional bug fixes and bot-battling updates from the presumably small crew of Valve employees still working on it...
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The Ten Best Source Filmmaker Movies

Valve's film making tools have been in the wild for over 24 hours now, meaning the internet has had time to run every meme and pop culture reference through Source Filmmaker's ultra-handy auto lip-syncing tool.

We've stuck a couple of those in our list of the Best Source Filmmaker Movies, alongside some that genuinely made us laugh, cry, shriek with delight and tremble with solemn appreciation.

Take a look, and head to the Source Filmmaker website if you want take a pop at animation yourself. You could become the next Jimmy Pixar.

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After the recent patches, Team Fortress 2 hit an all-time high

It's been a long road for Valve fighting against bots in Team Fortress 2 but it looks like the community has been overall quite happy with the latest changes.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/after-the-recent-patches-team-fortress-2-hit-an-all-time-high

Team Fortress 2 hits all-time player high following anti-bot patch

The free-to-play 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2 has hit a new all-time high player count, with 151,253 people online in the evening UTC. Today's counts are similarly high, with a peak of over 147,000 players online. This high follows a similar spike to a record high in December of last year...
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Team Fortress 2 just hit an all-time concurrent player peak

Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer game that came out way back in 2007, just saw its all-time concurrent player count record broken as more than 150,000 scouts, soldiers, heavies, spies, and the rest swarmed the servers Friday. According to SteamDB, it's Team Fortress 2's best day ever from a player count perspective, exceeding the previous high of 147,360 set last December.

At 19:50 UTC June 25, Team Fortress 2 had 151,253 concurrent players in-game. What's driving the surge isn't entirely clear - a new patch arrived this week, which added the new Summer 2021 cosmetic case and a few new tools for managing kick votes and other administrative tasks on servers.

There's some disagreement about what's actually going on in Team Fortress 2, as it turns out. Some players are reporting surprisingly bot-free experiences in the team FPS game, while others are convinced that the surge is primarily attributable to bot creators figuring out some new method of circumventing whatever anti-bot measures have been added in the latest update.

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