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Team Fortress 2 update lightly addresses the ongoing bot problem

Valve is slowly but surely addressing some of the classic shooter’s long-standing issues.

Following months of campaigning by Team Fortress 2 fans, Valve is finally taking action against the bot issues. Sort of, anyway.

On Thursday, an update for Team Fortress 2 came out. It addresses numerous exploits, including text chat clears, enabling cheats on official servers, teleporter swapping via class changes, a bizarre dispenser healing bug, and loads more. Some of these fixes only acknowledge decade-old glitches, but it’s a start. 

For months, the Team Fortress 2 community has been screaming for Valve to address cheating and spamming brought about by bots. The “SaveTF2” campaign got a response from Valve recently, and this patch adds some means of combating bot nonsense. In particular, the two more vote kick options should help players boot bots. Removing mid-match name changes should help since bots often automatically rename themselves to actual players within matches. Check out the complete patch notes below.

June 21st 2022 Update Patch Notes. Thoughts? from tf2

None of this mentions bots specifically, but Valve likely is adding backend fixes too. Highlighting solutions in official patch notes could inadvertently let the people that make cheat problems come up with workarounds. Not that security through obscurity always works, but it’s worth keeping in mind.

Regardless, let’s hope this is only one of many Team Fortress 2 updates from Valve.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Valve will finally address Team Fortress 2’s bot problem

Fans have been begging for this.

For years, Team Fortress 2 fans have been dealing with a massive bot problem, and Valve may finally be doing something about it.

Since about 2020, bots have been flooding Team Fortress 2 with all sorts of nasty nonsense. Chat logs overflow with hateful messages, auto-aim brings matches to a standstill, and entire servers go offline. It’s an utter nightmare for fans. 

The Team Fortress 2 community has been begging Valve to address the problem in recent months, specifically with the #SaveTF2 initiative. At long last, there was a response.

“Team Fortress 2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too,” Valve said on Twitter. “We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.”

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Hopefully, Valve follows through on this. The company has a reputation for not communicating well with fans on things like this. Frankly, Team Fortress 2 is an all-timer and deserves better than what’s happening. Far too many hours of my teen years were moving the payload and making dispensers.

Despite being more than ten years old, Team Fortress 2 is still popular. According to Steamcharts, over 80,000 players log in daily. Granted, lots of those are bots right now, but that’ll change soon. Fingers crossed, anyway.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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