16 Years After Launch, Group Fortress 2 Getting A Main Replace

I do know it’s nonetheless accessible and being performed, however Group Fortress 2 can at instances really feel like a recreation from a unique age. Partly as a result of it is, but additionally as a result of it’s so previous—and has gone so lengthy and not using a main replace—that you simply’d be forgiven for pondering it was on its final legs. However no!

The sport’s web site—which charmingly hasn’t appeared to have been up to date because the recreation’s launch—hummed into life at this time, posting a information weblog referred to as “Consideration, Steam Workshop Creators!”. It says that not solely will the sport be getting a “a full-on update-sized replace” later this 12 months, with “with gadgets, maps, taunts, uncommon results, conflict paints and who is aware of what else?!”, however that the replace may even embrace some contributions from the sport’s group as nicely.

Steam Workshop Creators, can we have now your consideration please. The next message is so pressing, so time-sensitive, we made the chief determination to skip TikTok and Twitter solely and break the glass on essentially the most bleeding-edge communication know-how accessible.

Welcome to the longer term. Welcome… to a “blog-post”.

“Wow!” you’re in all probability pondering. “I forgot how exhausting studying is!” Yeah, it’s scary how briskly you lose that. Don’t fear, we’ll be temporary:

The previous few Group Fortress summer time occasions have solely been merchandise updates. However this 12 months, we’re planning on delivery a full-on update-sized replace — with gadgets, maps, taunts, uncommon results, conflict paints and who is aware of what else?! Which implies we’d like Steam Workshop content material! YOUR Steam Workshop content material!

So get to work! (Or again to work, for those who have been already working however received distracted when your complete web concurrently came upon about this state-of-the-art blog-post.) Make sure that to get your submissions into the Steam Workshop by Could 1st, to allow them to be thought of for this as-yet-unnamed, un-themed, however nonetheless very thrilling summer-situated (however not summer-themed) (until you needed to develop summer-themed stuff) replace.

That is the primary excellent news the sport’s group have had for some time, since over the previous few years the one issues outsiders have heard about Group Fortress 2 has been the large points the sport has had with bots, and the userbase’s subsequent protests about it.