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[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 87 points 6 months ago (3 children)

TF2 is in a near unplayable state. Valve has neglected it and as a result it's not hard for people to bypass the anti-cheat. This has resulted in bots overtaking the game. This has been a problem for years, but there have been some recent pushes to get Valve's attention. First was #savetf2 which resulted in Valve tweeting that the "heard us" and had things planned. Well nothing happened and now we're trying again. #fixtf2 is the newest push and has come with extra steps from the community. Many people, including myself, have switched our reviews of TF2 to negative to hopefully get Valve's attention.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Valve is probably ignoring TF2 so that fans switch to deadlock which is tf2-overwatch-dota2 adjacent.

[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That seems malicious, never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence. Valve's non-standard employee structure means nobody has to work on TF2. There are a lot of other fun things to work on at Valve, not some decades old game that doesn't make a ton (relative) of money anymore. This is probably the biggest flaw of Valve.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're probably all too busy working on Half Life 3

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They don't really work on things that have already been done, but not the way Apple does it. HF3 will never happen, if it does you bet it won't be the same medium. (think Alyx)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 6 months ago

Half Life 3 will be the debut game for direct neural connections. You will be Gordon Freeman.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 10 points 6 months ago

I re-installed (I have about 500 hours total) and joined for a game for the first time in years (so I'm level 0, whatever that means; I guess that was added after I quit) and had a blast. Not sure if it's only in the higher levels or because of region (I'm based in Japan). Only had time for one game on a quick work break, so not enough sample size .

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's been steadily overrun by bots, and I guess the community hit a breaking point

[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That suck. Nobody like bots.

Bot like cheat bot or bot like play bot?

[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

play bot? I'm not quite sure what you mean, but ya all sorts of bots are flooding TF2. There are the normal aim-bots, but they also spam noise makers, voice chat, and text chat. They will also try and vote kick and normal player.

Maybe a "play bot" is like, when you run the practice mode the game pits you against bots instead of real players. I've seen cases of older games starting to spawn in bots like that so that the few remaining players don't realize how empty all the servers are.

Then there's cheat bots which...I'm not sure why people do that?

[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I see, thank you.