Valve simply dropped a small patch for Crew Fortress 2, the primary replace because it addressed the “Save TF2 (opens in new tab)” marketing campaign that noticed followers making as a lot noise as doable over the sport’s ever-growing bot drawback.
Does this patch (opens in new tab) immediately deal with any of the bot points? Not precisely, nevertheless it does repair some very previous bugs which have been quietly simmering within the background. Some have been knocking round for nearly a decade, like laggy animations on Halloween bosses and skeletons. That needs to be all patched up now, plus exploits like utilizing cheats on safe servers and gamers with the ability to teleport again to spawn by altering loadouts whereas touching the enemy’s spawn gate.
The Spy’s additionally had a little bit of a cleanup, fixing a difficulty the place he’d be holding his personal weapon whereas disguised as one other class. Useless Ringer has been fastened too and may now truly do a very good job of bamboozling individuals.
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Whereas there is no point out of particular patches to counter bots, a few modifications have followers hopeful that it will be simpler to cope with them. The voting system has had a refresh and now permits each groups to have a vote kick operating concurrently. It ought to make kicking bots lots swifter, with the addition of a world vote with the ability to run concurrently a kick vote. The power to alter title mid-match has already been eliminated, which some bots seemed to be utilizing to alter to the identical names as harmless gamers on the workforce.
It appears bizarre for the primary patch to be fixing a bunch of old-ass bugs, however followers are hopeful that it is a step in the fitting route in the direction of main modifications. “We gained a battle however not the conflict. We will not be content material with simply one other bandaid resolution,” one Reddit consumer mentioned (opens in new tab). One other mentioned (opens in new tab) that “most of those are QoL enhancements that assist eliminate the bots quicker.” Whether or not it’s going to truly work is one other story however, for now, Valve appears joyful to maintain the sport’s fanbase on tenterhooks.
