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If you want a fun game where you join servers close to your area, good control of cheaters, balanced gameplay, and good devs, go play something else. This game has none of this.


Problem #1 with this game: THE CHEATERS
The cheater problem with this game is massive. Bots crashing servers, groups up to 6 players with aimbots, teams with obvious cheaters not kicking them, and more. Valve could work on their 'anti cheat' (if you can call it that) system more to control this better but instead, they'd rather focus on CSGO skins and milking TF2 dry.

Back in the good old days where a majority of casual play were on community servers, cheating was controlled mainly by the community servers, so when someone would cheat, they would be out of that server very quickly.


Problem #2: The 'Matchmaking" system
They don't have a matchmaking system. Valve likes to call it one, but it isn't. A matchmaking system is made to match random players to a server that is close to their region and groups the players up in a balanced manner. A great matchmaking system also detects imbalance and tries to fix it.

TF2's does none of this except grabbing random players and placing them in a random server. It's literally a mixed bag. You'll get people who live in Florida joining Washington or LA servers.

The system also finds a way to make the game as imbalanced as possible. Most games you will join will have one team with a majority of veteran players and on the other team, players who just picked up a keyboard 8 minutes prior to launching the game.

You have 0 control over what kinds of servers you join. The only control you get is choosing what maps to join, but that's it. If you hate in-progress games, well too bad. Don't want to join servers that will give you 100+ ping? Too bad. I would say Valve could easily add these in, but with how terrible they have made this game, I am surprised they can even turn on a computer.


Problem #3: The Servers
The servers on this game run. That is really the only good thing I can say about them. Now, when it comes to freely choosing your team, kicking cheaters, or just spectating, you will be very dissapointed.

You don't get to choose what team to play on ever. The 'matching' system just grabs you and throws you into a random team. If, or to better worrd it, WHEN a cheater is on the other team, and they don't want to kick them, well your team won't be able to vote him out. When there is someone in the game who people are accusing of cheating, you cannot even spectate them to verify if they are or not.

Valve removed literally all those features from the casual servers. Features that literally helped control the game or give a better experience.


Problem #4: The updates
Valve should not be allowed to update their game anymore. Ever. The matchmaking update and pyro update justifies this.

With the matchmaking update, they basically killed community servers, which were the only servers able to control cheaters and most toxic players. They added their 'matchmaking system' which for a good while barely even worked at finding servers in general. The only actual improvement they made is now you can find a server in 10 seconds, but it will probably end in 30 seconds or is halfway across the country.

There is so much wrong with the matchmaking update. They should just revert the entire update and never touch an idea like that ever again.

The Pyro update shows how terrible they are with testing updates. They thought it would be a good idea to buff pyros so hard, they would kill nearly any class in just about 5 seconds with their flamethrower. Mix this with the new jetpack, and you got a flying sack of annoyance and BS that can only be beat by a vac medic or sniper.

After literal months of people complaining about Pyro's damage, they FINALLY nerfed it to a reasonable level. Keep in mind it took them months.


There is still so much wrong with TF2. There always was. But those problems used to be so tiny and miniscule that the game itself beat them. Valve has removed every feature that made the game fun and replaced it with some half-assed, buggy system or update. Don't play this game until Valve fixes the game.