Valve released a new update for Team Fortress 2 on Tuesday, almost a month after a fan campaign orchestrated by the game’s player base drew to the developer’s attention several debilitating exploits and bugs.
In May, fans of Team Fortress 2 went to the headquarters of Reddit, Twitter and Valve to launch a “Save TF2” campaign to urge Valve to act in the face of the growing number of robots that have affected the game in recent years. “It’s not the funny guy [of bots] “Mann VS Machine,” wrote Reddit user diamondDNF. it has more robots than humans. ”
In response, Valve tweeted from Team Fortress 2’s Twitter account for the first time in more than two years to announce improvements were under way.
TF2 community, we listen to you! We love this game and know you too. We see how big this problem has become and we work to make it better.
– Team Fortress 2 (@TeamFortress) May 26, 2022
The update addresses several exploits used to harass players, including the elimination of the ability to enter cheat codes into the game developer console on secure servers, the elimination of the ability to change names in the middle of a game, and improving the game’s voting system as well as other quality of life adjustments. . The general consensus among TF2 players is that Valve’s latest update is a “good start”, dealing with some long-standing bugs, but not enough to fix all the problems in the game.
“These are some great quality of life changes, especially double voting and not being able to change your name during a game,” wrote Reddit user dilbert_gaming. “Don’t worry about who the real player is and who the bot who stole their name is.”
Only time will tell if these changes will avoid the robot problem in Team Fortress 2, but the fact that Valve has deemed it appropriate to actively address the still popular 15-year-old game is an encouraging sign.
The list of changes to Valve’s patch notes can be read below.
- Fixed an issue with deleting text chat from the game
- Fixed an exploit in which players could use sv_cheats on secure servers
- Fixed an issue where players could teleport back to their own generator by changing load / class while knocking on the other team’s door without entry.
- Fixed a feat with Huntsman in which a player could change the load to cancel the speed disadvantage when loading
- An exploit has been fixed with the Ap-Sap where players could send junk noises
- Fixed an issue where dispensers could be cured through glass on some maps
- An exploit has been fixed in which a spy could disguise himself and create an invisible shield that blocked bullets at his feet.
- Delayed animations on heads, skeletons, ghosts, and other Halloween-like creatures have been fixed
- Fixed spyware that used incorrect disguise weapons when disguised as a soldier, pyro, heavyweight, or engineer with no members of the same class on the opposing team.
- Fixed projectiles that sometimes collided with teammates too soon / late
- The possibility of changing the names during a matchmaking game has been fixed
- Fixed some HUD images that were blurry when using low-text settings
- Simulated spy deaths have been fixed with the dead bell that did not appear in the matchmaking team’s status bar
- Fixed% killername% and other placemark names that sometimes appeared on the statistics screen and the killer camera
- The ability of servers to send disconnection reasons to clients has been reactivated
- Added ConVar net_disconnect_reason to use the reason for disconnection sent from client
- The hat option has been removed from the Mann Co. catalog drop-down list
- Updated voting system
- Both teams can have a kick vote running at the same time
- It may have a running global vote at the same time as an initial vote
- It has been fixed that sometimes it was not possible to vote on the maps at the end of the round
- The Fiestibrero has been updated to fix a problem with the model
- Some tournament medals have been updated / added
- Location files updated