Tag Archives: Team Fortress 2

While Valve has given Team Fortress 2 less attention than its other team-based shooter, Counter-Strike 2, it has not been abandoned. The game has received small updates at irregular intervals. The most recent update, however, is more significant than usual since it finally moves Valve's 17-year-old shooter into the 64-bit …

Back in 2007 Valve and EA partnered with one another to bring the now iconic Orange Box package to PC as well as 7th-gen consoles – consisting of Half-Life 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. After maintaining online functionality for more than 15 years, Team Fortress 2’s servers will finally …

Back in May, Valve officially responded to fan-outcry over the state of Team Fortress 2. For years, the game has been left plagued by bugs and bots that would actively ruin games for legitimate players. The first patch aimed at addressing these issues has since gone live, and now, TF2 …

Last year, Team Fortress 2 hit a new peak all-time player count following the game's summer update, which was supposed to solve some major issues with the game in its current state. Unfortunately, bots still run rampant in online lobbies almost a year later. The community protested this last week …

Team Fortress 2 recently had a resurgence in players but Valve hasn't really capitalised on that with new content updates. As we've seen with other Source games over the years, the modding community is now taking things into its own hands, with a new project aiming to rebuild Team Fortress …

Team Fortress 2 has just hit a new all-time high player record on Steam. Valve's classic 2007 shooter has remained popular over the years, but the player base has dwindled due to various issues, the most significant being bot players. Valve finally tackled this problem and as a result, over …

Over the last couple of days, Valve has faced some criticism from Linux players after reports came in that automatic VAC bans were being passed down to those with ‘catbot' in their Linux username. For those who don't know, a catbot is an aiming cheat for Team Fortress 2, for …

Valve has announced that it will be cracking down on sites that allow people to gamble with their Team Fortress 2 game skins. It the short term it will be banning accounts associated with the sites, putting users at risk of losing items. In the future though, it may well look …

Back in April last year, Valve announced that matchmaking in Team Fortress 2 was a ‘high priority' feature and just last week, the update finally came to the game. Unfortunately though, a lot of Team Fortress 2 players aren't particularly happy with how things work right now and as a result, …

Team Fortress 2 should now be a fairer place to play, whether competitively or just for fun, as Valve's latest update to its Valve-Anti-Cheat (VAC) defence system has been detecting users of the LMAOBOX software all weekend. It's led to many players being banned from the game, including almost 170 professional players …

Team fortress 2 is set to get its first major update in quite some time, with new maps, challenges and guns soon to head to the game. This new update will consist of both free and premium content, there will also be a new campaign by the name of ‘Gun Mettle', …

Apparently competitive matchmaking will be making its way to Team Fortress 2 soon, a feature that has been sought after for quite some time by the community. The feature is currently said to be a “high priority” over at Valve, which has not given TF2 many significant content updates as …

It's no secret that Valve's self-perpetuating user-made content trading on Team Fortress 2 and DotA 2 has been a massive success. Tens of millions of dollars have been made by the players, with Valve taking a cut of every transaction that goes on. It's not all about the money of course, as …

Blizzard's upcoming shooter, Overwatch, may need to undergo a name change after the US Patent and Trademark Office suspended the Overwatch application last week. The game was initially announced at Blizzcon last year and there has been a high level of excitement for it ever since. The US Patent an …

Valve's item system for Team Fortress 2 has been a resounding success, but it's seen an unscrupulous few, idle in games simply to get their hands on new ones. No longer though, as Valve has updated the game, meaning you have to be actively playing in order to receive the …

Gabe Newell has been speaking out about the future of Steam quite a bit recently, with a lot of focus of expanding its reach and giving better opportunities to smaller developers. However, he's also been thinking about having much less Valve involvement, replacing its current gatekeeper like system with an …