Team Fortress 2’s Mann vs. Machine PvE mode is getting a “much-needed” replace, in response to developer Valve, and the studio is asking the sport’s neighborhood to assist make content material for it.
The mode, first launched as a part of a significant replace in 2012, sees gamers staff as much as defeat hordes of robots making an attempt to hold a bomb. Destroyed robots drop money that can be utilized to buy class upgrades. In keeping with the Team Fortress 2 wiki, there are at present 29 missions and 5 operations (teams of missions performed in sequence) for Mann vs. Machine.
Now, 13-years-later, Valve is trying to replace Mann vs. Machine with the neighborhood’s assist. Valve, within the signature comedic fashion it all the time makes use of when writing about Team Fortress 2, is asking gamers to submit Mann vs. Machine maps and missions by August 27 for doable inclusion within the replace.
Valve’s tongue-in-cheek blog post clarifies that the replace, or at the least a portion of it, will probably be arriving proper earlier than Halloween, however that the submitted maps don’t have to all be Halloween-themed (although a few of them could possibly be, Valve later states).
“The king of the fictional land the place this all occurred (historical Greece), decreed on stone tablets that though the replace was dropping proper across the historical Greek candy-harvest pageant of Halloween, the maps didn’t have to all be Halloween-themed (first pill) and actually should not be (second pill),” Valve writes.
It is not the primary time Valve has requested for assist to create new Team Fortress 2 content material. The category-based FPS obtained 14 new community-made maps as a part of a significant summer time replace in 2023. Valve earlier this yr launched Team Fortress 2’s total supply code, giving the neighborhood the facility to “change, prolong, or rewrite TF2.”
One in every of Team Fortress 2’s hottest mods, Team Fortress 2 Basic, is ready to formally be launched on Steam later this yr. The mod returns the sport to the way it was in 2008, albeit with new weapons, modes, and quality-of-life options.
Regardless of being practically 20-years-old, Team Fortress 2 nonetheless has a robust following on Steam and is without doubt one of the greatest free video games on Steam. Over the previous six months, the sport has maintained anyplace from round 40,000 to 56,000 concurrent gamers, and really reached a brand new concurrent participant peak of over 250,000 in 2023 following the discharge of the beforehand talked about summer time replace.