Group Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some motive, developer Valve simply determined to jack the utmost variety of gamers who can be part of a server without delay as much as 100. Valve doesn’t truly suggest you play with that many individuals, and warns that the sport doesn’t correctly help that many gamers, however that hasn’t stopped the group from creating chaotic 100-player TF2 servers.
Valve’s on-line class-based FPS, Group Fortress 2, isn’t a spring rooster by any definition, having first been launched again in 2007 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. And whereas the console variations have been lengthy since deserted, the PC model on Steam has continued to obtain a whole bunch of tiny, medium-sized, and considerably massive updates, all of which have been free. The most recent replace to the traditional shooter has offered players with an choice to set the world on hearth and invite 99 different TF2 gamers right into a single server.
On July 25, Valve launched an replace for Group Fortress 2. The patch notes reveal a reasonably prolonged listing of tweaks and adjustments, however the one change that caught the eye of many was the quiet announcement that the sport’s most participant depend had elevated from 32 to 100.
Valve: Don’t make 100-player servers, Avid gamers: LOL
Additionally within the patch notes? A warning from Valve letting gamers know that this new max participant depend is completely “unsupported” and “not really helpful.” In different phrases, Valve isn’t going to spend time fixing bugs launched by taking part in with 99 people. If shit breaks, that’s simply the way it goes. You had been warned, in any case.
As you’ll be able to in all probability guess, even with that warning, many gamers have already fired up servers with the brand new max participant depend, and the chaos that adopted was unimaginable. Watching individuals play on 100-player servers seems like trying into an alternate dimension by which Valve teamed up with Sega to place out a Complete Battle: Group Fortress 2 spin-off.
Unsurprisingly, taking part in Group Fortress 2 with this many gamers causes some points. Gamers are reporting plenty of lag, poor framerates, damaged fashions, collision issues, and even some situations when the sport simply crashes fully. That’s not shocking contemplating it is a 16-year-old sport that was by no means designed to deal with 75 individuals, not to mention 100.
But additionally, I like this a lot. Good for you TF2! There’s something very spectacular about 100 individuals in a single TF2 match. It’s like an outdated automobile making a protracted highway journey after years and not using a tune-up. It’d stall a couple of occasions, overheat, and even lock up, however it will get the job executed. Brings a tear to your eye, actually. It’s additionally an ideal time to let individuals create high-player-count servers, as Group Fortress 2 is setting participant depend data on Steam following the final huge replace.
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