But the players got no updates in 2020 or 2021, and were left instead with a burning question: Resilient fans did find ways to keep playing, patiently waiting for some kind of an update from Valve. Even during the worst of the crisis, TF2's average players per month never dipped below 65,000-although there is some question of just how many of these were, well, the bots. What had once been Valve's greatest multiplayer game was adrift, and no update arrived to right the ship.ĭedicated members of the community tried to make the best of it. Gone were the good times of the Jungle Inferno update (a glorious month for Pyro mains), gone were easy breezy 2Fort sniper fests, gone were demomen sticky jumping off cliffs. Unable to play on Valve's official lobbies, players migrated to community servers like Uncle Dane's Uncletopia and hunkered down for what would end up being a long, long winter. Frustrated, players took to social media and posted video after video about the situation.
