Valve Responds to 'Team Fortress 2' Fans, 'Working to Improve Things'

April Fowell, Tech Times 27 May 2022, 01:05 am

Valve has responded to the Team Fortress 2 community movement via a tweet and reassured them that they are "working to improve things."

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Valve's tweet reads, "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 bot infestation has caused the servers of the game to be overrun by spam messages, flawless snipers, and more recent bots that can crash the entire game or orchestrate coordinated kicking of human players.

Even more frustrating is that players can't even have the satisfaction of watching bots fight each other as a huge chunck of bots contain a whitelist of other bots that lets them focus on deleting human players.

Also Read: Some 'Team Fortress 2' Players Create 'Good' Bots That Target Cheaters

The Strength of the Community

The hashtag #SaveTF2 that the Team Fortress 2 community has adopted in the last few days really caught on that Valve opened its Twitter account again after being dormant since 2020.

The community is pushing for the massive botting problem to be resolved as it has been ongoing since 2020.

On May 7, Team Fortress 2 content creator SquimJim published a video lamenting the botting issues with the game. In the video, he encouraged his audience to reach out to both media and Valve employees in hopes that enough pressure will force the developer to do something about it.

SquimKim also offered an email template and a list of both media tiplines and publicly-available Valve employee emails.

A Peaceful Protest

The community reassures that they have an ongoing peaceful protest about the state of the game.

Although the individuals that are using the hashtag may have different motives, a huge part of the group only hopes for some level of acknowledgment from Valve paired with a fix, ideally.

Others hope that the renewed attention on Team Fortress 2 may result in the game getting regular updates again given the huge community that are interested in it.

After all, the only new content that has been added to it since Jungle Inferno is community-created cosmetics, taunts, and war paints.

That said, Team Fortress 2 is over ten years old, but it still remains to be popular. An average between 70,000 and 90,000 players play it every month for the last year. With that, it only makes sense that the game developer delivers regular updates to enhance the gaming experience considering the thousands of players who still play the game.

What are Valve's Plans?

For now, there are no clear plans yet from Valve. However, the Twitter acknowledgment is a first step toward resolving a long-standing issue in the game. Hopefully, this can get Team Fortress 2 in more stable grounds and players will be able to enjoy a smooth experience once again.

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Written by April Fowell