I mean TF 2 is 16 years old. They just don’t really support it anymore. I can’t comprehend how it’s still in or close to the top 10 steam games by player count when it’s been dead for years.
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Clbull@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’d be more supportive of Valve if Team Fortress 2 wasn’t a dumpster fire to play in 2024. The game is infested with bots that make anything outside of independently moderated community servers unplayable.
Even Counter Strike 2 has dogshit anticheat despite the boasts that VAC Live was a solution that could surpass Vanguard, to the point where the only good competitive experience you can have is to play on FaceIt or ESEA servers with their own ring 0 anticheat solution.
theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 9 months ago
Fontane@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
It got 14 new maps last year and hit a new concurrent player count record. It’s not even remotely dead.
theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 9 months ago
Yeah dead as in doesn’t receive much love from Valve
justJanne@startrek.website 9 months ago
If you can only have a good experience by installing malware, you don’t have a good experience.
I really should finish building that nvidia jetson based hardware anticheat that’d allow anyone to cheat even in vanguard protected games with perfect accuracy for just ~150$. Ring 0 anticheat’s only use is to spy on you and yet people will continue defending it until someone’s proven just how useless it is.
yamanii@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t play Valorant, but I never heard my friend that does getting pissed at cheaters over there, compared to my friends that play CS2.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can only speak for the higher ranks of both games but cs2 is currently unplayable above 25k elo since its almost guaranteed to have 1 out of 10 players cheating. While i only encounter a few cheaters each season in immortal in Valorant.