Team Fortress 2 is one of the elder statespeople of PC battle royale game, now's your chance.
On Tuesday, July 25, Valve's Team Fortress 2 team posted a new update that will apply to the multiplayer game the next time you start it up. Among fixes for Saxton Hale's weapons and some persistent crashing issues, the patch notes also explain that Team Fortress 2 servers are now getting bigger – much, much bigger.
"Unrestricted_maxplayers to raise the maxplayer count to 100," the Team Fortress 2 update notes say, followed by a useful disclaimer that the feature "is uned and not recommended." Nevertheless, Team Fortress 2 players have been trying out the new server size en masse, with often anarchic results. Take a look at the footage below from YouTuber 'S4 Videos.'
I mean, this is beautiful, in the way that if you drop a full tray of drinks on the floor, all the shrapnel, spray, and carnage can actually look kind of beautiful. With the Counter-Strike 2 release date drawing near, and a variety of recent updates pushing the TF2 player count to record heights (it hit a new, all-time peak two weeks ago), it's interesting to speculate how Team Fortress 2 might be changing.
Perhaps Valve is just laying the foundations for a new, fully ed battle royale mode. Or maybe this is some kind of field test for – dare we to dream – Team Fortress 3. Either way, it's a glorious sight, and perfect reason to go back to TF2, a real PC classic.
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