Team Fortress 2 is Being Overrun by Bots
Dealing with cheaters, hackers, and bots in any online competitive game is a difficult task. The constant fight against the hacking situation in Call of Duty: Warzone is one such example, but one community that has seen next to no relief of its botting problem is Team Fortress 2.
Team Fortress 2 is rapidly approaching its fifteenth birthday, but that doesn't mean that it's an unloved game. TF2 still manages to see pretty consistently high user counts on the Steam platform, but many of the players aren't having a good time and are at the end of their rope.
Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Now Advertising Bot Immunity Services
Team Fortress 2 has been seeing a major botting problem since at least 2020, and it has arguably gotten worse instead of better. Valve initially addressed the problem in 2020 and made some changes to help limit who could access certain aspects of the game, like voice chat, but the TF2 patches were insufficient at the time and the botting problem continues. Players report that they can't play the game at all on Valve's casual match servers due to an overwhelming number of bots that automatically snipe opponents the moment they appear outside of their team's base.
However, the matter gets worse than that. Botters are now using tactics in order to purposefully troll legitimate players outside of simply getting kills. Botting players have begun impersonating legitimate users to get them booted from the server in order to bring more bots in. Add to that a constant onslaught of SPAM and hateful comments in the voice and text chat, and players are more than fed up.
The problem has gotten so bad that well-known Team Fortress 2 YouTuber SquimJim has taken to the platform to try and bring attention to the problem. Viewers
Read more on gamerant.com
