Fans Get Signs of Life and Hope with the New Team Fortress 2.
Team Fortress 2fans organized an online protest last month to highlight the bot problem of the shooter. Developer Valve was very quiet about the issues raised in the community. However, the #SaveTF2 campaign caught their attention and stated that the team would be improving things. Team Fortress 2 received a new update last night. While it doesn’t fix the bot issue completely, it does show players that the team is working to resolve the long-standing problems.
As they are written on Steam, the patch notes mention fixing various exploits, HUD images,s and lagging animations that date back to the game’s Halloween event. These issues have been present since 2013. A few patches address the bot problem in Team Fortress 2. There are a few patch notes in which bots have invaded public servers, disrupting games and sequestering users to private servers.
This update stops players (and bots!) from clearing in-game chat. This was an annoying behavior that bots used to do, and it prevented players from communicating properly with one another. Bots cannot change their usernames during matchmaking. Some would change their names to look like other players’ so that the human player is not mistakenly kicked out. These are just a few examples of Valve making small adjustments on the way (hopefully!) to a bigger solution.
The team fortress 2 update to vote allows players to kick more troublesome players and, in turn, the bots. This is one of the biggest quality-of-life changes that players are excited about. Both teams can now hold a kick vote simultaneously. This allows players to eliminate bots quickly.
Short, one member of the #SaveTF2 protest said this had encouraged the Team Fortress 2 community. The quick turnaround in addressing these issues and fixing problems that have been years in the making feels like the most Valve has paid to ongoing problems in a very long time.
“People are pleased that they’re taking small steps, but due to this strange, old bug fix, people think Valve might just be getting ready for more bug fixes and getting stuff fixed. Shrek tells Fanbyte that it looks promising that they are doing things this way.
The community hopes that Valve’s public acknowledgment of the campaign will make the company accountable for these issues. Although there hasn’t been any direct communication between the company and the community, numbers from social media engagement indicated to ShorK that Valve was aware of the community’s concerns.
short states that although many people were skeptical, there was a lot of trust in ShorK’s assertion. “Many people didn’t want to respond to this large of an offer without really wanting to do it,” ShorK said. “And now, we’ve seen part one of something. We hope it is the first part of something.
