Group Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some purpose, developer Valve simply determined to jack the utmost variety of gamers who can be a part of a server without delay as much as 100. Valve doesn’t truly advocate you play with that many individuals, and warns that the sport doesn’t correctly assist that many gamers, however that hasn’t stopped the neighborhood 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 giant updates, all of which have been free. The newest replace to the traditional shooter has offered avid gamers with an choice to set the world on fireplace 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 checklist of tweaks and modifications, 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, Players: LOL
Additionally within the patch notes? A warning from Valve letting gamers know that this new max participant depend is completely “unsupported” and “not advisable.” In different phrases, Valve isn’t going to spend time fixing bugs launched by enjoying with 99 people. If shit breaks, that’s simply the way it goes. You had been warned, in any case.
As you may most likely 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 appears like trying into an alternate dimension by which Valve teamed up with Sega to place out a Whole Warfare: Group Fortress 2 spin-off.
Unsurprisingly, enjoying Group Fortress 2 with this many gamers causes some points. Gamers are reporting a number of lag, poor framerates, damaged fashions, collision issues, and even some cases when the sport simply crashes utterly. That’s not stunning contemplating this can be a 16-year-old sport that was by no means designed to deal with 75 individuals, not to mention 100.
But additionally, I love 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 an extended street journey after years with out a tune-up. It’d stall a number of occasions, overheat, and even lock up, nevertheless it will get the job performed. 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 large replace.
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