Team Fortress 2 Community - A free-to-play dress up game for grownups, gameplay fully automated! Waiting to be mercy killed...

[Rudy Coleman]

Yes, and they're all playing custom weapon servers. I am not exaggerating, the custom weapon servers are pretty much the majority at this point and the regular base game is pretty much exclusive to VaultF4 servers. These servers are pretty much all terrible.
Speaking of VaultF4, their ban page proudly lists ~5.4k bans. It is quite unclear what is the exact timeline for these bans but in 2022 (earliest archive.org snapshot I could find) they were hovering around ~2.8k. This seems like a lot for a mod that used to hover around 200-300 active daily players before being published on Steam. There was also some rumor that they had to mass unban people at some point because they ran out players but I haven't managed to find any details about that so far.

5.4k total bans for a server host that cannot even fill 2 matches of 24 people. brutal

 

[Shoresy]

5.4k total bans for a server host that cannot even fill 2 matches of 24 people. brutal

Gotta own the chuds right? RIGHT? Nah for real though, fuck VaultF4 and Eminoma. That's a hilariously sad statistic. If they were smart, they'd do a clemency thing like undoing any permabans for any offence that isn't blatant cheating, and ditching the server verification system entirely. That could be the only thing that could save TF2C at this point, but I think it's far too late to undo the damage Eminoma and VaultF4 have done to TF2C.

Official TF2 Wiki's Twitter account was suspended today for unknown reasons

Courtesy of their #tfwiki-staff IRC logs:

Tark seems to be the person in control of the Twitter account, whilst only being a sysop on the wiki itself. I also recognize his name from Knockout.chat, so he's probably some flavor of tranny too.

Also update to this situation, the official TF2 Wiki twitter account was suspended due to "brand impersonation" lmao:

 

[Rudy Coleman]

Gotta own the chuds right? RIGHT? Nah for real though, fuck VaultF4 and Eminoma. That's a hilariously sad statistic. If they were smart, they'd do a clemency thing like undoing any permabans for any offence that isn't blatant cheating, and ditching the server verification system entirely. That could be the only thing that could save TF2C at this point, but I think it's far too late to undo the damage Eminoma and VaultF4 have done to TF2C.

its so fucking bad that they would spend the better part of 10 years making a mod for a community that no longer exists because they banned them all.
whats crazy is that if you go back into their ban logs, when they started hosting the game in 2015 all of the bans they issued are for cheating, no homophobia or nazism.

 

[Enward Cullen]

Also update to this situation, the official TF2 Wiki twitter account was suspended due to "brand impersonation" lmao

What could possibly be the point of a wiki having a social media account?

 

[Average Russian Spy]

5.4k total bans for a server host that cannot even fill 2 matches of 24 people. brutal

That's embarrassing. Way to kneecap your own game, retards. I wonder what a majority of those bans were for.

 

[Conan]

I remember a guy got permabanned on vf4 because he had a joke name that was something obvious like Oswald Mosely or Francisco Franco, forget which one.

Either way the ban reason was: "actual fascist user name"

Like how the fuck do you allow furry futa pony porn sprays as a joke but then a dude can't have a username even reminiscent of bad think

 

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

Gotta own the chuds right? RIGHT?

94% of the peak player count was sacrificed for tranny freedom. WORTH IT

Like how the fuck do you allow furry futa pony porn sprays as a joke

Do you have an actual example of that happening? I was under impression that VF4 admins ban these types of sprays and will ban anything remotely sexual.

 

[Rudy Coleman]

That's embarrassing. Way to kneecap your own game, retards. I wonder what a majority of those bans were for.

A good amount of them are for cheating to be fair. However, most of them are for banavision so it's impossible to tell if these are people who used to cheat or were transphobic. Which kind of breaks my heart. To me that means they came back because they wanted to continue playing the game and were willing to behave going forward

 

[Newton Pud]

What could possibly be the point of a wiki having a social media account?

I would assume it’s to post website updates so they appear in followers’ feeds.

 

[Nonokay]

Wyświetl załącznik 914785194% of the peak player count was sacrificed for tranny freedom. WORTH IT

The astroturfing this mod received was insane. Dozens of videos with hundreds of thousands of views a piece. All of that for what? Just goes to show you how cheap and non-committal community attention is these days. What even is the community to begin with? Reddit will tell you that watching YouTube videos is enough to qualify you as a “fan” of something, but what does that mean?

I’ve noticed this in other places, this massive disconnect between the game and a surrounding fandom/community, as well as the general homogeneity of fans (groomer + grooming victims/rootless letzer mensch) across disparate communities. What if the game these people are playing isn’t even with WASD anymore, and it’s the simulated community that people care about, more than the thing itself? Because it seems like the type of person to post coal on Twitter about deltarune is posting coal on Twitter about TF2. Or the type of person to tune into daycare-center-content for one game is doing it in general. Nobody is playing TF2 Classified because the ideal TF2 Classified player in the mind of its jannymaxxed opportunist developers are the same people watching these YouTube videos—but those people don’t play. Same deal with Phoneyland. This dogshit map is showered with praise on Twitter, but when the people who aren’t tertiary fans object to its inclusion the creator loses his fucking mind and runs back into his hugbox on socials. Do you think he was expecting that level of disconnect?

The internet just hasn’t been the same since covid. Now it’s like there’s a horde of people living in their own Black Mirror episodes, completely rootless and hanging on to these digital communities for life, vying for whatever petty symbolic capital they can find.

 

[Conan]

Do you have an actual example of that happening? I was under impression that VF4 admins ban these types of sprays and will ban anything remotely sexual.

No I don't have a screenshot of the billionth example of tf2 spray porn saved from a specific server run by and frequented by the same people who consume said porn

But I played tf2c since it was a source mod and vf4 can say they have rules against porn all they want but that is not reality

 

[Shell Shocked Zoomer]

VF4 admins ban [furry futa pony porn] sprays and will ban anything remotely sexual.

@Conan is right; Admins don't do shit. When I would play TF2C, sprays would either be furry porn or trans shit, likely from the the same people since it all blends together.

 

[dogs 4 breakfast]

One of the first big slop tubers to admit there is something wrong.

 

[dogs 4 breakfast]

Sorry for doublepost, This guy uploaded a 1 hour video talking about how the tf2 community. I skimmed through it and he seems to really have a grasp of just how autistic it really is. He covers Zesty and his doxxing, the tf2 emporium, the bots, Scap.tf and the pedo owner, and much more.

 

[Rust Troony]

One of the first big slop tubers to admit there is something wrong.

I hate this "TF2 is the X most popular game on steam" when everyone knows the game is botted to all hell. Its not the 23rd most popular, its lucky to even be in the mid 80s. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if L4D2 has more actual players than TF2.

The game is dead. Stop trying to get Valve to care about the game when they obviously don't. Install a no hats mod, and play/create community servers.

 

[thhrang]

The game is dead. Stop trying to get Valve to care about the game when they obviously don't. Install a no hats mod

"Roll over, eat shit forever, and die"
Brilliant strategy!

 

[Rust Troony]

"Roll over, eat shit forever, and die"
Brilliant strategy!

"Valvo please fix the game no one plays and is %50-60 bots! We literally give you millions (probably "investors" who don't actually play the game) to do nothing and I know that's pennies to a company that makes billions buts its YOUR FAULT! FIX IT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!"

You're talking to a wall. No one at Valve cares enough to fix it, no news outlet is going to cover "Valve doesn't update dying game despite autistic screeching" because it isn't newsworthy, and any other chance of trying to get Valve to do something is going to fall on deaf ears because Valve only cares about its public image, so yes, it's worthless to try to fight it. Stop wasting your own time trying to do something that won't happen.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

"Valvo please fix the game no one plays and is %50-60 bots! We literally give you millions (probably "investors" who don't actually play the game) to do nothing and I know that's pennies to a company that makes billions buts its YOUR FAULT! FIX IT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!"

You're talking to a wall. No one at Valve cares enough to fix it, no news outlet is going to cover "Valve doesn't update dying game despite autistic screeching" because it isn't newsworthy, and any other chance of trying to get Valve to do something is going to fall on deaf ears because Valve only cares about its public image, so yes, it's worthless to try to fight it. Stop wasting your own time trying to do something that won't happen.

CS2 Timmy how many times do we have to tell you to get along with your TF2 brother? You cry and whine every time you play with him. You're both neglected, so why can't you get along?

 

[NeonFlux]

Want to know what's also sucks shit about modern gaming? The quality of the average person you meet online. It's not worth having voice chat or text chat on anymore. It doesn't matter that you don't use Discord, Discord will find you.

It seems like the number of faggots are slowly growing each year in Causal, Every year there are more and more of them. Slowly, but surely I'm getting kicked more and more. More and more, there are mentally ill retards who freak the fuck out at the drop of a hat.

Causal CTF/Payload race are basically second life servers where they constantly ERP or talk about how much they want to kill themselves.

It's like when you were in high school, your parents told you not to interact with the "cool kids" because you fuck up your life by being nearby them.

When you use voice/text chat, you're interacting with niggers like Joshua Jahn (The Texas 2025 ICE shooter) who will bring pain into your life.

Always have a VPN on if you troll or grief the dsygenic mutants.

 

[777-]

Want to know what's also sucks shit about modern gaming? The quality of the average person you meet online. It's not worth having voice chat or text chat on anymore. It doesn't matter that you don't use Discord, Discord will find you.

It seems like the number of faggots are slowly growing each year in Causal, Every year there are more and more of them. Slowly, but surely I'm getting kicked more and more. More and more, there are mentally ill retards who freak the fuck out at the drop of a hat.

Causal CTF/Payload race are basically second life servers where they constantly ERP or talk about how much they want to kill themselves.

It's like when you were in high school, your parents told you not to interact with the "cool kids" because you fuck up your life by being nearby them.

When you use voice/text chat, you're interacting with niggers like Joshua Jahn (The Texas 2025 ICE shooter) who will bring pain into your life.

Always have a VPN on if you troll or grief the dsygenic mutants.

this problem is easily solved by permamently banning everyone with a tranime/cartoon avatar on sight