Team Fortress 2 Summer Update Brings ‘Security and Stability Fixes’ – and Fans Hope Bots Are Gone for Good

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Valve has released a major Team Fortress 2 update scheduled for summer 2024, giving fans hope that it will follow up on recent efforts to combat the game’s botting problem.

This Team Fortress 2 the community came together in June to attempt to have Valve forcefully fix the botting issue that had plagued the game for years.

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Disgruntled players of the nearly 17-year-old hero shooter that is still one of the most popular games on Steam have caused Team Fortress 2’s Steam rating to drop to “Mostly Negative,” with most of the comments being about bots.

Team Fortress 2 fans are hoping that the game’s bot problem will finally be resolved.

Valve issued a ban wave that seemingly solved Team Fortress 2’s botting problem, and released a factual message Frequently asked questions presenting its demanding stance on the matter. Recent reviews on Steam have returned to “mixed,” with players praising Valve for taking action.

Now, Valve has released the Team Fortress 2 Summer Update, which includes anticipated content like community-made maps, cosmetics, and effects, but there’s also a blurry line Description of changes which gives fans hope that the pesky bots will be gone for good: “Security and stability fixes.”

While Valve hasn’t provided details on what exactly these improvements will be, there’s hope that the developer has built on the good work it’s done over the past month to keep Team Fortress 2 bots at bay.

Valve is still responsible for games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and Left 4 Dead 2. Meanwhile, gameplay leaks have revealed Valve’s alleged next game, Deadlock.

The last game Valve released was a competitive first-person shooter. Counterattack 2which effectively replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Before that, in 2020, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx exclusively for virtual reality headsets. Valve also released a Dota-themed digital card game called Artifact and the Dota automatic chess game called Dota Underlordsalthough none of them gained as huge an audience as the company’s previous titles.

The wait for Half-Life 3 continues. Coming back to 2020, The making-of for Half-Life: Alyx revealed a number of games developed and shelved by Valve between the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Valve’s latest VR game. That list included details about a version of Half-Life 3 that had been in development for about a year, and the open-world game Left 4 Dead 3.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @wyp100. You can contact Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

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