Team Fortress 2’s Latest Update Has Community Optimistic, But Isn’t a Magic Fix for Botting Problems
After a series of community protests about Team Fortress 2’s bot riding, Valve is a new game with tentatively promising changes, even if the patch itself isn’t all a magical solution. An update has been released.
The updatePushed yesterday, it contains a lot of bugs and exploit fixes, most of which have nothing to do with botting in practice. For example, there’s a fix for an enemy animation issue that only appears during Halloween events, and a one-year-old bug fix that sometimes shows the player’s placeholder name on killcams and statistics screens.
Many of these issues have been around for years and most were annoying, but they didn’t break the game. Therefore, while those fixes are welcome, they are not significant changes to fight bots.
However, there are some changes to the updates that have made the Team Fortress 2 community cautiously optimistic. The biggest change is the voting system. Previously, Team Fortress 2 could only kick a player with one vote at a time, so it was tedious and time consuming to remove multiple bots from a match, especially as they were quickly replaced by many bots. With the new update, both teams will be able to vote at the same time, and on top of that, global voting will be possible to kick players.
Valve has also removed the ability to rename during matchmaking games. This was a feature that bots abused by changing the name to be the same as the player’s name in the match, often causing inadvertent kicks by the actual player rather than the bot.
Although it’s a small fix, the Team Fortress 2 community has responded well to the fix, many of which are for bugs that have been around for years. However, it is not enough to permanently solve the botting problem.in the meantime One Reddit thread Other commenters have pointed out that the number of players has dropped significantly after the update and the bot issue seems to have been temporarily resolved, this is due to the incompatibility of the first bot with the new update. I point out that it happens every time-they always come back in a few days, so past update It has been proven to try to curb the problem.
This time around, what’s encouraging the Team Fortress 2 community is that Valve has actually publicly announced something that shows that it’s aware of this issue and is working on it.
Over the past few months, the Team Fortress 2 community has been overwhelmed by years of overwhelming bot issues that have overrun public casual servers with spam messages, perfect snipers, and more recently bots that can crash. I have been protesting the state of the game. The whole game.
Last month, the official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account acknowledged the botting issue in response to the protest and said it was “working to improve things.”
Apart from that tweet, it’s unclear if future updates may be included on the card to keep cracking down on Team Fortress 2 bots. Although the community is happy with the recent updates When It seems that they are mainly aware that large updates will take time.There is also Feel this is another band-aid Applying to a much larger problem than a valve is willing to tackle in the long run. Given the historically harsh nature of valve priorities, waiting seems to be the only way to know what the future holds for Team Fortress 2.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN.She can be found on twitter @duckvalentine..
