Valve has launched Team Fortress 2’s large Summer 2024 replace, leaving followers hopeful that it builds upon latest efforts to fight the recreation’s bot drawback.
The Team Fortress 2 group got here collectively in June in an try and brute-force Valve into fixing a bot drawback that had plagued the recreation for years.
Disgruntled gamers of the close to 17-year-old hero shooter, which stays one among the most-played video games on Steam, prompted Team Fortress 2’s Steam consumer assessment score to plummet to ‘principally adverse,’ with just about all the feedback about bots.
Valve launched a banwave that appeared to stamp out Team Fortress 2’s bot drawback, and revealed a no-nonsense FAQ outlining its robust stance on the matter. Current Steam opinions recovered to ‘blended’, and gamers praised Valve for taking motion.
Now, Valve has launched Team Fortress 2’s summer season replace, and whereas it contains anticipated content material corresponding to community-made maps, cosmetics, and results, there’s additionally an imprecise line in the patch notes that’s left followers hopeful that the troublesome bots are gone for good: “Safety and stability enhancements.”
Whereas Valve didn’t element precisely what these enhancements concerned, the hope is the developer has constructed upon the good work performed final month to maintain Team Fortress 2’s bots at bay.
Valve continues to function the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and Left 4 Lifeless 2. In the meantime, gameplay leaks have revealed Valve’s alleged subsequent recreation, Impasse.
Valve’s final developed recreation to launch was aggressive first-person shooter Counter-Strike 2, which successfully changed Counter-Strike: World Offensive. Earlier than that, in 2020, Valve launched Half-Life: Alyx completely for digital actuality headsets. Valve has additionally launched a Dota-themed digital card recreation known as Artifact and a Dota auto chess recreation known as Dota Underlords, though each failed to search out as large of an viewers as the firm’s earlier titles.
All the whereas, the wait for Half-Life 3 continues. Again in 2020, a making-of for Half-Life: Alyx revealed a swathe of video games developed and shelved by Valve between the launch of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Valve’s newest VR recreation. That listing included particulars on a model of Half-Life 3 that was in improvement for round a 12 months, and an open-world Left 4 Lifeless 3.
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