Recent reviews by Dribbleondo-Van-Pelt

2,138-ish hours was my time in Team Fortress 2 in 2019. Since then, it has gone up around 60 hours, and the stunted time is all down to the Bot issues and my repeated attempts to play it. The Bot problems of TF2 are a perfect encapsulation of why VAC doesn't work; it relies too little on automation, too much on manual waves, and there's no work being done in the background to satiate any player who just wants to play Casual.

"But just play community servers". That's NOT a solution to the problem, that is running away from the issue at hand and circumventing it. Praying to [Insert Local Deity of your Religion Here] would be just as effective a solution than just playing on community servers.

Here is the bitter Pill people don't want to swallow, the scroll of truth they continually throw away because what the sought after was too real for them: Valve likes Illegal Gambling. It likes loot boxes, it likes its storefront filled with shoddy asset-flipped games they can't be bothered to sift through or have any semblance of QA for. That is the reality, and people need to start accepting that.

Since 2015, Valve made it big with Lootboxes and weapon skins in CSGO, and since then, has had one thing on their mind, and that has been "How can we players part with their money while still looking like the good guys of PC Gaming?". Turns out, when you have rabid fans who will go for bat to defend you whenever you screw up, you can get away with a lot of stuff. Quelle Surprise that breeds complacency among users and a situation where you can't escape Steam.

The bots of TF2 are emblematic of Valve's Sloth-like tendencies. Unwilling to make any move to solve or fix a problem until they think it's perfection incarnate, lest they be seen as the bad guy or the solution is seen as unfit. VAC itself is antiquated, old hat, a leaky steam pipe system with so many cracks and buckets catching water that it's impossible to ignore. There's a reason players call VAC the derogatory nickname "Valve Allows Cheaters" because...well...they kinda do.

TF2 is infested with Bots because Valve doesn't have the cajones to try anything, because stopping the bots, stemming the flow, does not compute with their focus on making money off of skins, cosmetics, cards, taunts, or really anything else sold via TF2 or the marketplace. That is their goal, and they will not stop until we've left or the money runs dry.

Stop playing TF2, Stop using Steam or the very least try to limit your Steam usage (yes, I'm aware of the irony presented here) and play something else on some other platform. Hell, some games are DRM-Free and can be played away from Steam if you download them first.

If Valve has any sense, they'll listen to the feedback and the reviewbombing and the petition and the calls to action and make TF2 playable again by purging the bots, either with a more effective Anti-Cheat, or with some more technical wizardry. If not, and we're still in the same boat one year from now, well, we have our answer for the future.

#fixTF2

If you're missing the itch that Heisting Game II has given you for co-op bank robbing, then this will absolutely satisfy it. Behind the goofy exterior is a surprisingly well-made game, even if the objectives can be hard to find in stealth or obfuscated in loud.

If you've been burned by Heisting Game III, then play this instead. Jiggle your lockpicks to success!

Okay, this game has potential, but the steering is so loose, as if I were driving on butter, and the characters' voices are really repetitive, which stop me from playing it.

It's still one of the better kart racers on PC, but damn does it need work.

s'allright.

It's a bit on the easy side, but it's quite a unique game hack-n-slash game.

The best Hitman game there is.

It's Mortal Kombat with superhero's. Rewards combo chaining and the clash one liners are fantastic. No Mark Hamil though =/

It's a neat game.

I was skeptical about this game, and I was just as skeptical getting it. I regret nothing, as thios is undoubtedly one of my fave multiplayer games. And I'm a nintendo-nut so this game must be good.

A platformer that is the very definition of "I SWEAR I PRESSED THE A BUTTON!".