Team Fortress 2’s Latest Update Makes It Easier To Kick All Those Bots
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Yesterday, Valve launched a brand new replace for Team Fortress 2 that fixes and tweaks plenty of issues, however many gamers are most excited in regards to the adjustments to how voting and usernames work, hopeful they’ll make it simpler to fight all of the annoying bots that proceed to plague the multiplayer, class-based shooter.
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On June 21, Valve pushed out the brand new replace for Team Fortress 2 on PC by way of Steam. TF2 first got here out method again in 2007, and is among the firm’s most profitable and fashionable video games. In current years it’s additionally had severe issues with bots, which you’ve most likely examine when you’ve been hangin’ round Kotaku. And whereas this new replace received’t repair the general bot drawback, it’s at the least giving gamers extra methods to combat again.
Specifically, as famous within the replace’s patch notes, Valve is remodeling how voting to kick problematic gamers works. Previously, you could possibly solely have one vote going at a time. Now, a number of kick votes, each team-specific and world, could be in course of on the similar time. Valve additionally fastened an exploit that permit gamers or bots change their in-game title throughout a match, which was generally utilized by bots to make it more durable to detect who was actual and who was a grimy, loathsome AI.
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In concept, these adjustments ought to permit human gamers to extra shortly and effectively take away bots, which has Redditors and the like celebrating. However, they may theoretically result in bot-filled servers having the ability to kick human gamers even sooner, too. Of course, bot-majority servers suck to play on anyway, so most gamers simply bounce from bot-filled matches as a substitute of sticking round to combat.
Kotaku’s contacted Valve in regards to the new replace and requested about any future plans the Half-Life creator has to proceed cleansing up TF2.
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Team Fortress 2’s energetic group is understandably fed up with the annoying bot infestation of the previous couple of years. Recently, many gamers started protesting by way of e mail and different strategies in an try and get Valve’s consideration. While some have criticized how the playerbase went about its digital protest, the continuing clamor did ultimately result in Valve and the TF2 group acknowledging the continuing bot concern.
While this replace is a optimistic step ahead, it is going to take much more than this to squash TF2’s endemic bot points. Hopefully for the TF2 group’s sake Valve has extra updates and treatments within the works.
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