Team Fortress 2's summer update is here, and a group of players have penned an open letter to Valve about matchmaking

A caller representation called Cargo, and cargo to beryllium delivered to Newell corp

Team Fortress 2, that shooter with wacky quality intro videos truthful bully I person to ticker each of them astatine slightest erstwhile each six months, got its 2025 summertime update precocious past week. There are a big of caller community-made maps, items, and taunts, successful summation to a just fewer bug fixes from Valve themselves.

Cool to see, though 1 vocal radical of players are keen to spot the developers delve backmost successful and marque immoderate changes to matchmaking, having penned an unfastened missive to the Steamy institution outlining hopes for the revised strategy that melds the precise aged old 1 with the somewhat little aged 1 the game's had since 2016's Meet Your Match update.

First of all, the summertime update. You tin work the afloat notes here, but the highlights arsenic follows. There are 10 caller assemblage maps, dubbed (clears throat) Citadel, Aquarius, Fulgur, Cargo, Conifer, Boardwalk, Blowout, Mannhole, Demolition, and Pressure. You tin adhd 23 caller community-made items and 14 antithetic effects to that, with the second being divided seven-seven betwixt hats and taunts.

Closing retired the additions are 4 caller taunts: The Final Score, Bear Hug, Texan Trickshot, and Flying Colours. I tin conjecture precisely what 2 of those'll look similar if done by a Heavy, the others are a spot much mysterious. Among the bug fixes are tweaks to outdated in-game tips, the Heavy's exemplary being updated to adhd a fittingly-named "bullets bodygroup for cosmetics", and "the Texas Half-Pants not afloat utilizing rimlight". That past one's astir apt reasonably boring successful practice, but it made maine snigger.

So, that's the update - bully and beefy for a crippled that's dilatory inching person to its 20th day (sorry if that's made you consciousness old).

Now, onto the letter. A radical of TF2 players dubbed BringBackQuickplay and YouTuber Megascatterbomb person penned an unfastened missive they accidental they're readying to nonstop disconnected to Valve, calling for the reintroduction of respective features from TF2's pre-2016 quickplay matchmaking system. The cardinal extremity is simply a determination distant from skill-based matchmaking, backmost to a strategy that puts community-run servers astatine the forefront and allows squad switching astatine will. As of writing, contempt the missive being cited arsenic from the full Team Fortress 2 community, those down it accidental its recommendations are based connected a survey that got astir 3.5k responses.

This besides isn't the archetypal clip successful caller past that Team Fortress 2 players person decided to ace unfastened a connection processor and constitute to Gabe Newell similar he's their MP. Earlier this year, a radical that looks to person included astatine slightest immoderate of the aforesaid folks enactment unneurotic different missive to Valve (in the nonstop aforesaid font) astir giving players who've not upgraded to a premium relationship backmost the quality to usage comms tools similar substance and dependable chat. That alteration debuted successful 2020 arsenic portion of Valve's efforts to combat bots, thing Team Fortress players came unneurotic nether the #SaveTF2 moniker to telephone for enactment on.

Basically, the crippled with the spy that goes boink hasn't been abbreviated connected run groups implicit the past fractional decade. We'll person to spot if this latest missive goes anywhere, oregon conscionable remains a happening that's garnered immoderate thumbs up from immoderate Team Fortressers who predominant Reddit.