Trapped in spawn with my again towards the wall and a gaggle of pyros ready on the exit, I am unable to assist however suppose to myself that extra gamers in Workforce Fortress 2 servers will not be factor.
There’s been a ton of nice updates for Workforce Fortress 2 over the 12 months ever since Valve introduced its ‘Large Summer time Replace’. Full with 14 new maps and 25 cosmetics; there is a ton of recent and nice content material accessible to gamers. Like this replace, the latest announcement that the participant rely has been raised from 32 to 100 was not made by Valve, so it’s “unsupported and never beneficial”.
Whereas this new capability sounds intriguing, you may be hard-pressed to discover a server which really checks the bounds of all the pieces we all know Workforce Fortress 2 is able to. Sadly, for those who log onto the 16-year-old sport, it would not appear as if anybody is taking part in in these gigantic areas. As an alternative, many are nonetheless choosing the great outdated 32 gamers.
Regardless of lacking out on attending to see simply how chaotic these 100-player servers are, the TRG workforce did have the right excuse to dive again into TF2 and what the state of this iconic title was like.
The final time I ran round with a Scattergun was a couple of years in the past when my group of buddies had performed via each multiplayer sport recognized to man and had run out of concepts. At first, it was pleasantly enjoyable, however quickly we had been suffering from hordes of bots, all pointing their sniper rifle to the sky and downing us with one shot as quickly as we peeked out of spawn.
Fortunately this time round, there was nothing of the kind. I used to be fortunately shocked to not play cat and mouse, working away from bots from one server to the subsequent. As an alternative, we performed via whole video games with solely the occasional cheater rearing their head.
After the preliminary pleasure wore off, we acquired to play a correct sport of Workforce Fortress 2 for the primary time in years, and it went precisely as you’d count on. Whereas it is undoubtedly true that it performs higher than anticipated, as I used to be solely phased into the backrooms as soon as, it took a couple of video games for the workforce matchmaking to stability out.
Enjoying medic within the first few rounds meant that I spent most of my time trapped in spawn in a futile effort to present the heavy sufficient therapeutic to make a dent within the enemy workforce’s protection or at the least make a dent within the turret. Sadly, none of this labored out fairly the way in which we wished it to, as most of our video games ended fairly shortly.
Fortunately, by the tip, we managed to discover a match with balanced matchmaking. This was sufficient to remind me why I used to spend hours and hours taking part in Workforce Fortress 2 with my buddies as I sped across the map as Scout and had the thrilling fights that I had lengthy forgotten.
Regardless of our expertise in Workforce Fortress 2 being a blended bag, it is nice to see such a well-loved sport getting some consideration in any case these years. It could typically be laborious to clean up a title like this, so even when 100-player servers could also be laborious to understand and even more durable to seek out, it is at the least an indication that this multiplayer FPS continues to be alive and kicking.
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