Workforce Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some purpose, developer Valve simply determined to jack the utmost variety of gamers who can be part of a server directly as much as 100. Valve doesn’t truly suggest you play with that many individuals, and warns that the sport doesn’t correctly help that many gamers, however that hasn’t stopped the group from creating chaotic 100-player TF2 servers.
Valve’s on-line class-based FPS, Workforce Fortress 2, isn’t a spring hen by any definition, having first been launched again in 2007 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. And whereas the console variations have been lengthy since deserted, the PC model on Steam has continued to obtain a whole bunch of tiny, medium-sized, and considerably massive updates, all of which have been free. The newest replace to the traditional shooter has supplied avid gamers with an choice to set the world on hearth and invite 99 different TF2 gamers right into a single server.
On July 25, Valve launched an replace for Workforce Fortress 2. The patch notes reveal a reasonably prolonged listing of tweaks and modifications, however the one change that caught the eye of many was the quiet announcement that the sport’s most participant rely had elevated from 32 to 100.
Valve: Don’t make 100-player servers, Avid gamers: LOL
Additionally within the patch notes? A warning from Valve letting gamers know that this new max participant rely is completely “unsupported” and “not really helpful.” In different phrases, Valve isn’t going to spend time fixing bugs launched by enjoying with 99 other people. If shit breaks, that’s simply the way it goes. You had been warned, in any case.
As you possibly can most likely guess, even with that warning, many gamers have already fired up servers with the brand new max participant rely, and the chaos that adopted was unimaginable. Watching folks play on 100-player servers seems like wanting into an alternate dimension by which Valve teamed up with Sega to place out a Complete Struggle: Workforce Fortress 2 spin-off.
Unsurprisingly, enjoying Workforce Fortress 2 with this many gamers causes some points. Gamers are reporting plenty of lag, poor framerates, damaged fashions, collision issues, and even some cases when the sport simply crashes utterly. That’s not shocking contemplating it is a 16-year-old sport that was by no means designed to deal with 75 folks, not to mention 100.
But additionally, I love this a lot. Good for you TF2! There’s something very spectacular about 100 folks in a single TF2 match. It’s like an previous automotive making a protracted highway journey after years with no tune-up. It would stall just a few occasions, overheat, and even lock up, but it surely will get the job carried out. Brings a tear to your eye, actually. It’s additionally an ideal time to let folks create high-player-count servers, as Workforce Fortress 2 is setting participant rely information on Steam following the final massive replace.
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