As someone who bought a physical disc copy of The Orange Box on launch day, it…kinda slays me that TF2 is still running. It’s a very different game than it was in my day, and it is just wild hearing kids younger than the game talking about it. Gaming almost always moves on faster than this.
That launch day was amazing. We had a 2 day LAN party that weekend and played TF2 almost exclusively. This was with a group that had formed around TFC. Then about 6 years after launch I introduced my son to it and he became hooked and we played for years together. There’s a certain magic to all versions of TF that just doesn’t exist in other games.
(it’s probably the well balanced gameplay and dedicated servers)
I loaded up TF2 a few months ago just for a quick game, expecting to get into yet another round of I’m-so-over-it 2fort.
What happened instead of that was a completely nostalgic get-into-any-map-I-wanted round after round of full servers like I’d never put the game away. Dustbowl, Gravelpit, Steel, trying to re-learn all the maps, finding other players who had long since figured out new clever ways to use weapons and classes that I’d always thought of as sub-standard.
And I’m in a region where there should be less players.
I’ve always wondered if there was some weirdness going on with the player numbers. It felt like its been doing really well number-wise the past couple years despite being (relatively) abandoned by valve.
I remember seeing some people talk about that on the subreddit, but I don’t know what conclusion people arrived at. Are bots inflating that or is tf2 still really popular?
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Meanwhile Hotgarbage Infinite (halo) barely scrapes 38k
Man, if your attempt at a wordplay insult is so vague that you need to give away the meaning, you should probably go back to the drawing board.
Lmao
Not everyone plays xbox and would know it. I was just trying to be inclusive. My bad for that
I used to LOVE TF2. I wonder if they have updated it to run on 64bit Macs yet
AFAIK they haven’t. Which is a shame cuz I’d love to play it.
Whoa what’s happening with TF2?
There was an update
As someone who bought a physical disc copy of The Orange Box on launch day, it…kinda slays me that TF2 is still running. It’s a very different game than it was in my day, and it is just wild hearing kids younger than the game talking about it. Gaming almost always moves on faster than this.
That launch day was amazing. We had a 2 day LAN party that weekend and played TF2 almost exclusively. This was with a group that had formed around TFC. Then about 6 years after launch I introduced my son to it and he became hooked and we played for years together. There’s a certain magic to all versions of TF that just doesn’t exist in other games.
(it’s probably the well balanced gameplay and dedicated servers)
That explains why I still get random friend invites trying to buy my backpack/acct
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Great, more bots… Did they fix the horrible bot problem? I haven’t played in 6+ months due to this.
Ye they did (mostly) fix it! It was pretty solid last time I played
So guys, we did it
I loaded up TF2 a few months ago just for a quick game, expecting to get into yet another round of I’m-so-over-it 2fort.
What happened instead of that was a completely nostalgic get-into-any-map-I-wanted round after round of full servers like I’d never put the game away. Dustbowl, Gravelpit, Steel, trying to re-learn all the maps, finding other players who had long since figured out new clever ways to use weapons and classes that I’d always thought of as sub-standard.
And I’m in a region where there should be less players.
Ik, my brother was playing it by himself all last night. Jokes aside I’m really glad, I’m gonna round up the crew and mvm
Man I used to love TF2. Such a laugh and so many ways to play it. Mega chuffed it’s still going strong.
I’ve always wondered if there was some weirdness going on with the player numbers. It felt like its been doing really well number-wise the past couple years despite being (relatively) abandoned by valve.
I remember seeing some people talk about that on the subreddit, but I don’t know what conclusion people arrived at. Are bots inflating that or is tf2 still really popular?
Lots of botting probably
Is it actually playable now?
OMG TF2 is back? Did someone reboot the universe lately? Federated social media, old memes, TF2. Something is afoot.
Team Fortress 2 not Titanfall 2.
Noted and changed, I am ashamed that I didn’t do that in the first place as a titanfall fan.