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Yesterday, Valve released a new update for Team Fortress 2 that fixes and modifies a lot of things, but many gamers are excited about the changes in the way voting and usernames work, in the hope that it will be easier. Fight all the annoying robots that keep hitting the class-based multiplayer shooting game.
On June 21, Valve released the new update for Team Fortress 2 on PC via Steam. TF2 first came out in 2007 and is one of the company’s most successful and popular games. You’ve also had some serious problems with robots in recent years, which you’ll probably read about if you’ve been to Kotaku. And while this new update won’t solve the overall bot problem, it at least offers players more ways to fight.
Specifically, as noted in the update patch notes, Valve is reworking how voting works to kick out problematic players. Before, you could only have one vote at a time. Now, they can be in the process of multiple voting, both team-specific and global at the same time. Valve also fixed an exploit that allowed players or robots to change the name of the game during a game, which was sometimes used by robots to make it harder to detect who was real and who was a dirty, disgusting AI.
In theory, these changes should allow human players to eliminate robots more quickly and efficiently, which celebrates Redditors and the like. However, they could theoretically make bots full of bots to expel human players even faster. Of course, most bots’ servers hurt to play with them anyway, so most players only bounce in games full of bots instead of staying to fight.
Kotaku contacted Valve about the new update and asked about the future plans of the creator of Half-Life to continue cleaning TF2.
The active community of Team Fortress 2 is understandably fed up with the annoying boat infestation of recent years. Recently, many gamers began to protest email and other methods of trying to get Valve’s attention. While some have criticized how the player base made its digital protest, the ongoing outcry has led Valve and the TF2 team to recognize the bot’s problem.
While this update is a positive step forward, it will take much longer than that to eliminate the endemic problems of TF2 bots. Hopefully, for the good of the TF2 community, Valve has more updates and remedies underway.