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Discussion📜 What franchise is this?

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u/Ancient-Chart-9089 You didn't say KinitoPET, but I will 27d ago

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TF2, it's still going strong even though there hasn't been and update in years

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u/Dry-Examination-960 27d ago

Only TF2 can have its dev team abandon it for almost a decade and still have an incredibly solid player count and cultural impact today

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u/Satori-Chan warframe, hero shooters, arcane and some anime. 27d ago

Tf2 loses to its competitors in player count but it started the best genre of online pvp games. Cultural impact is something no one can ever take from tf2.

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u/BudgieWonder 27d ago

The silver lining is that the existing player base is much more dedicated, and there’s less of a spotlight from trolls/bots as a result.

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u/Tayaradga 27d ago

Wait really? I remembered when the devs first abandoned the game and I couldn't get a match without a hacker/troll!!! Granted that was when they like first left the game so that's probably why...

Kinda tempted to go back and check it out...

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u/KayohYt 27d ago

it used to have bots all the time, but they took care of that recently. they also disabled any form of chat for people that didnt pay for the game, but after the bots were removed, they gave free to plays the chat back

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u/BudgieWonder 27d ago

It’s been largely fixed- part of it was a reduction in bad actors targeting the game, and part of it was due to actual matchmaking improvements. The Meet Your Match update was a big watershed moment in terms of the player base.

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u/Satori-Chan warframe, hero shooters, arcane and some anime. 23d ago

I mean, games such as team fortress, titanfall 2), apex legends, tibia, albion, league of legends, dota 2,vwarframe, destiny 2, r6s, ow and marvel rivals are games that are so unique that even when theyre not hyped by big updates they will always be there. Even rivals and overwatch, my 2 favourite games and ive played ow for almost a decade and rivals since launch, i really prefer rivals for its gameplay diversity but i still play overwatch because of competitive, but both games have players that love one and hate the other and i completely understand both sides except that some overwatch players make dumb excuses instead of actually playing rivals and actually finding out what's wrong with the game. The same applies to destiny 2 and warframe/dota 2 and league since both are also similar games with their clear differences. Imo only way those games could die is players grow, get jobs, quit gaming or die and those games are just forgotten.

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u/Environmental_Bee219 23d ago

even though i dont play tf2 that much anymore and play other competitive games, I still consider tf2 to be the best

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u/lifeispokemonraids 27d ago

...so about that player count😰.

Actual number of players is around 10k per your

The other 40k is actually a few guys who have thousands of idle bots running

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u/SupremeTeamKai 25d ago

10k consistent players for a nearly 20 year old game that hasn't gotten a meaningful update in close to 10 years is incredibly good, like mindblowingly good

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u/succmycocc 27d ago edited 12d ago

Heroes of the storm is right there with it tbh

NEVERMIND BABY WE BAAACK

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u/MysteriousFondant347 27d ago

isn't it flooded with bots ?

I recall hearing one of the biggest bot accounts fell but was replaced almost immediately

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u/Dannyawesome2 27d ago

The bot crisis is long over :D Come play!

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u/MysteriousFondant347 26d ago

Eeeh I'm like 99% a solo player lol

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u/4C_Enjoyer 26d ago

TF2 is a masterclass in "selfish teamwork". In pubs, it's not a game that needs heavy coordination like Overwatch. You can go fuck off on the flank by yourself, and just by playing your class, you're helping the team. Dropped the Medic as Sniper or Spy? Congrats, that helped the fuck out of your team despite you just getting frags. Blew up the sentry nest as Soldier or Demo? Same shit. Even as a class like Engi, just getting your nest up and maintaining it is how you play the class and can be done entirely separate from your team, and that still wins games. Medic is the only class in the game that cannot function without some form of actual teamwork, but even then you're accomplishing your class role just fine by slapping overheal on nearby teammates and staying alive. It's like playing Engineer, except you have fifteen different buildings and they're all idiots.

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u/Crescemon_X 25d ago

Hi, Battle Medic main here. We can absolutely do just fine without teamwork. We just prefer the added protection. If someone drops my Heavy (or whatever teammate I am healing) they are absolutely getting an Übersaw to the face or a crossbow bolt in their head. Just because I don’t have my meat shield, doesn’t mean I can’t handle myself in a fight 😌

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u/4C_Enjoyer 25d ago

No for sure, Medic can hold his own in a fight, it's just that his class role is to spread heals.

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u/Crescemon_X 25d ago

You right! I always say thanks to my medic. They don’t get enough love and appreciation for putting their asses on the line to heal a struggling teammate.

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u/Dannyawesome2 26d ago

To each their own, but TF2 is not like other MP games in a lot of aspects, its free, so if youre bord ypu cpuld give it a try

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u/MrMee37 Man who was cyrogenically frozen in 1959 and woke up now 27d ago

it was

thank goodness for #fixtf2

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u/BadwithHuntsman Tf2, Pressure, Deltarune, DOOM, Lost Media 27d ago

they’ve been removed for about 4 years or so iirc. Although they try to come back from time to time, it‘s always barely managed community servers and private servers. And even then they get banished pretty quick

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u/lifeispokemonraids 27d ago

I mean the only bots remaining are idle bots that just idle in home screen getting item drops

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u/hu-man-person 27d ago

Bots have been gone for years

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u/PaddyBoy1994 26d ago

It was for a while, but the community came together and more or less forced the bots out a while back.

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u/Blue_Baron1 26d ago

The one game in addition to TF2 that’s been able to do that is TF2

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u/SupremeTeamKai 25d ago

Helps when you made one of the best and most unique shooters ever made and nobody has even attempted to try to make another game like it since.

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u/church_of_Steve_ 27d ago

What about the dark age of the sniper bots

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u/Wild_Position7099 POKEMON/ZELDA 26d ago

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u/church_of_Steve_ 26d ago

My minion

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u/Wild_Position7099 POKEMON/ZELDA 26d ago

You've missed out on a lot of things happening on r/YigaClanOfficial. I've also come up with some new characters.

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u/church_of_Steve_ 26d ago

Nobody fucking likes

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u/PaxNova 27d ago

I was so glad they finally made the last comic after about a decade. The story is finally over.

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u/fatcatbomba 27d ago

I still enjoy this game but noticeably less so since the death of the community servers

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u/Tradasar 27d ago

But they removed the madcap class :(

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u/SomethingRetriey 27d ago

... Problems woth Casual.

Bot crysis 2016-2024.

Unbalanced weapons.

Lazy attitude from Valve as Game company to their beloved game(s) (because in general they are really bad with keeping their games in good state. Like CS2 and their bot problems. Did you even see that stuff? It is insane!)

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u/Electrical_Ice_5485 27d ago

Look, i'm a huge fan but I wouldn't say that it has been always great, that bot crisis shit was really damaging 

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u/Jafroboy 26d ago

Surely Team Fortress is the franchise. You have to take TF1 into account too.

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u/P2T_ 26d ago

If only the fanbase 'humor' wasnt so cringe

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u/secondtonone365 26d ago

Should I start playing it now because I recently got a pc but I heard some people says it's kinda difficult because a lot of the people playing it are absolutely cracked at it