Bots started causing serious issues for Team Fortress 2 earlier this summer, spamming the game's chat with racial and homophobic slurs, along with using game-breaking hacks and cheats like aimbot.

For the past two months, Team Fortress 2 has been under attack by a horde of racist, homophobic, sexist robots. Valve hasn't done anything about them.

Tired of waiting around for an official solution to cheaters, the community for Team Fortress 2 has taken matters into their own hands. Anti-cheating bots have been created to police the FPS game ...

A campaign to get rid of bots began in 2022 and gained the attention of Valve, which did improve Team Fortress 2 by initiating a bot ban. But the problem has grown again as time passed, with ...

Namely, Team Fortress 2 is being overrun by bots, whether they’re cheating aimbots or anti-bot bots. If this escalates, as some players suggest, it could risk flooding Team Fortress 2 with even ...

The free-to-play 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2 has hit a new all-time high player count, with 151,253 people online in the evening UTC. Today's counts are similarly high, with a peak of over ...

I wrote yesterday about the #SaveTF2 movement's latest campaign, mobilizing once again to pressure Valve into action against Team Fortress 2's rampant bot problem.The latest operation is a two ...

Team Fortress 2's bot problem has finally received acknowledgement from the powers-that-be. On Team Fortress 2's Twitter, developer Valve wrote, "TF2 community, we hear you… ...

First released in 2007, Team Fortress 2 is one of the most enduring online shooters around. However, as the game ages and players turn to more modern releases, it is operating on a skeleton crew .

Team Fortress 2 players have gotten creative in the fight against the shooter's rampant bot problem by turning a 340,000 signature strong petition into an actual book and delivering it to Valve ...