Valve have quietly been tinkering under Team Fortess 2's hood for some time now, and today would like you to try and help them test something out: officially-sanctioned, AI-controlled "bots".

Following months of campaigning by Team Fortress 2 fans, Valve is finally taking action against the bot issues. Sort of, anyway. On Thursday, an update for Team Fortress 2 came out. It addresses ...

Team Fortress 2 update lets you boot bots faster, unless they kick you. A new Team Fortress 2 update aims to resolve the FPS game’s bot problems with improved vote kick tools and a fix to ...

Still, TF2 remains one of Steam’s top games, with tens of thousands of players online at any given time. Hughes said bots started appearing in TF2 in 2017 , though back then they were rare.

For years, Team Fortress 2 fans have been dealing with a massive bot problem, and Valve may finally be doing something about it. Since about 2020, bots have been flooding Team Fortress 2 with all ...

In 2022, Team Fortress 2 player megascatterbomb created a Discord bot with his friends to track the cheaters they encountered in their matches. TF2 was three years into its still ongoing bot ...

Team Fortress 2’s active community is understandably fed up with the annoying bot infestation of the last few years.Recently, many players began protesting via email and other methods in an ...

Original story (4/8): Reports of Team Fortress 2 crimes spiked over the weekend, with widespread accounts of a "lag bot" invasion ruining casual matchmaking. Malicious bots are not new to TF2, but ...