Team Fortress 2 was launched back in 2007 as part of Valve's The Orange Box compilation that also featured Half-Life 2 and its expansions, as well as Portal. In September, the Team Fortress 2 community introduced anti-cheating bots. Valve introduced a fix to try and tackle the problem, namely by stopping new players from using chat. In June 2020, it was reported that racist bots were running rampant in the game at the same time that the Black Lives Matter movement was picking up around the world following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police office Derek Chauvin. Last year, the bots in Team Fortress 2 started to grow in number and, erm, racism. That's on top of some minor cosmetic additions. This comes in the wake of Valve making a few changes to hinder Team Fortress 2's growing and persistent problem with bots in the game. Taking place from Friday, August 23rd, to Sunday, August 25th, the event will. Valve's free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2 hit a brand new concurrent user record last week.Īccording to SteamDB – and pointed out by the site's creator Pavel Djundik on Twitter – the title boasted 151,253 simultaneous players at around 19:50 BST on Friday, June 25th. The biggest event on the Competitive TF2 calendar is back again Teams and players from around the entire world will be heading to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, to the Insomnia Gaming Festival for their chance at glory and a share of the prize pool.
