Team Fortress 2 fans have desperately tried to get the attention of Valve for them to address the bot issues plaguing TF2.

Many fans would argue that Team Fortress 2 was Valve's breakthrough into the mainstream. It was the original Dota 2 – a mod turned into an actual game that became so successful that everyone forgot that it started out as a mod in the first place. The game remains popular even after fifteen years since its launch, with tens of thousands of concurrent users every day. In fact, the game just beat its concurrent user count record last year.

However, this player count is facing a terrible challenge – and their enemy isn't human. Instead, there's a huge bot problem plaguing TF2 right now, and this bot issue is causing a lot of frustration for the game's loyal player base. Bots have been swarming the public servers of the game, forcing players to either deal with headshotting auto-aim sniper bots and the obnoxious voice and chat spams, or find an existing community and play on private servers.

Of course, fans don't like either options, so they're looking into solving the root cause of the problem: bots. These bots started appearing two years ago when the Team Fortress 2 source code got leaked to the public. This allowed scripters and hackers to develop bots that can go around TF2's security features. Valve has since introduced additional measures to combat the bot problem, but it's clearly not enough.

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Now, fans are rallying behind TF2 content creator SquimJim, who posted a video last week that showcased Team Fortress 2's bot issues, calling upon his audience to take action. SquimJim encouraged fans to send letters to both the media and Valve to get more attention to the problem.

As for us, we're doing our part in putting this issue into light, hopefully adding to the pressure on Valve to address these bot issues once and for all. That's the least they can do to help the very people who have been supporting their game for decades.