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Valve has lastly fastened an issue with Team Fortress 2 that’s been within the sport because it launched 17 years in the past.
Ever because the influential hero shooter got here out on October 10, 2007, the Scout’s pants on the blue aspect had been the incorrect shade. Now, amongst patch notes for a lately launched Team Fortress 2 replace, Valve buried the large information: Scout’s pants are actually fastened.
Right here’s the moderately innocuous line from the patch notes:
- Fastened BLU Scout utilizing the wrong staff shade pants
In typical Valve trend, it made the change with out rationalization or fanfare. No rationalization for why it’s taken 17 years to vary the colour of Scout’s pants, and no cause for why it’s carried out so solely now. Ever mysterious, Valve is.
It’s truthful to say the response from the Team Fortress 2 group has been a mixture of shock and pleasure. “They modified a personality design 17 years later! What!” X/Twitter consumer @heavyfortres requested.
THEY MADE BLU SCOUT’S PANTS BLUE
THEY CHANGED A CHARACTER DESIGN 17 YEARS LATER WHAT pic.twitter.com/WFPdYvwYzx
— heavy staff fortres 2 (@heavyfortres) October 24, 2024
“Truthfully I can not consider they did it,” redditor KyleTheWalrus added. “BLU Scout had grey pants and blue belt loops for 17 years, and he has a number of cosmetics that require the grey pants shade to work accurately.
“In the event that they fastened something, I used to be certain they’d simply make the belt loops grey as a result of it is simpler. However these loopy bastards took the onerous route.
“Now we wait one other 17 years for the remainder of Scout’s pants cosmetics to turn into the proper shade of blue. Hooray!”
Valve’s relationship with the Team Fortress 2 group has definitely had its ups and downs through the years. The sport’s had an terrible bot downside for a while, and exacerbated gamers typically name for Valve to do extra to clamp down. They’ve additionally requested for extra assist and content material for Team Fortress 2 from Valve, which, some say, is extra centered on its different, extra widespread video games. Team Fortress 2 stays extremely widespread, although, and is amongst considered one of Steam’s most performed video games forward of the likes of Warframe, Overwatch 2, and Future 2.
Final month, Team Fortress 2 gamers bought inventive within the combat towards the shooter’s rampant bot downside by turning a 340,000 signature sturdy petition into an precise ebook and delivering it to Valve headquarters.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.