https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6N9OItWg
inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5KBMhw87n8tweet: https://x.com/MezzSupport/status/1806509286836547992this is after the 16k ban wave, stay hopef

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1dqjwyi/person_used_his_real_accounts_to_host_bots_which/
This subreddit is dedicated to Team Fortress 2, created by Valve Corporation in 2007. ... Members Online • Stannis_Loyalist. ADMIN MOD Person used his real accounts to host bots, which has now been banned by Valve. He is having a meltdown accusing Valve dev of cheating ... Slug series: big bald man with heavy machinegun, knife and bombs; much

https://www.save.tf/
You can help by spreading the petition above, promoting the #FixTF2 and #SaveTF2 hashtags, as well as sharing this Save.TF website across any social media you have access to. Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Youtube, TikTok, whatever you want, just let loose and inform as many people as we possibly can. You can share resources about the bot crisis

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/the-savetf2-campaign-to-get-valve-to-beat-the-team-fortress-2-bots-has-begun/
After announcing the SaveTF2 campaign recently, today the actual campaign to get Valve to fix up Team Fortress 2 has properly begun.. The petition on their campaign website has now reached over 100,000 signatures, which the organisers say they will forward onto Valve directly to try and get their attention. On top of that, they're asking people today to use the "#SaveTF2" hashtag across social

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/27/23144061/valve-team-fortress-2-bot-problem-savetf2-spam
Pyro and Scout face off. Valve has responded to a campaign from Team Fortress 2 players who want it to fix the game's bot infestation that has made it almost unplayable in recent years. "TF2

https://www.polygon.com/23144312/team-fortress-2-valve-savetf2-peaceful-protest-bots
Earlier this week, Team Fortress 2 fans took to Reddit and Twitter to start a "Save TF2 " campaign, after years of fighting against bots with no action from Valve. "Not the fun kind [of bots

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/save-tf2-fix-tf2
Overview. Save TF2 is a Team Fortress 2 community movement aimed at attracting Valve's attention to the long-running bot problem within the video game. Started by Team Fortress 2 YouTuber SquimJim in early May 2022, the campaign has pursued the goals of Valve recognizing and addressing the bot issue and ultimately fixing it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/uz4oba/what_exactly_did_savetf2_accomplish/
The Team Fortress 2 Dev account responded and said 'that we are working to fixing things' there, when for the last 2 years they haven't and making that statement deliberately vague only gives us the impression they are even noticing. Beyond making this hashtag trendy for that day (and will likely be forgot in the upcoming week), and acting as

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/desperate-team-fortress-2-fans-get-save-tf2-trending-again
About a year and a half ago in May 2022, game developer and Steam creator Valve finally responded to pleas for help from Team Fortress 2's community after bots with in-game cheats flooded the

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/save-team-fortress-2-valve-responds-to-huge-protest/zd44c2
What's more, one of the principles of this protest was not to contact Valve employees, or people connected with the development of TF2. It can be said that the community wanted to draw the attention of the developers with their dedication, instead of doing it in the form of spam and direct attacks. The protest was planned for yesterday and it

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/17q4ulj/so_what_exactly_did_savetf2_actually_accomplish/
After nine years in development, hopefully it was worth the wait. So what exactly did #SaveTF2 actually accomplish? It caused the bots to have it in their name. Actually true they are like (the bot makers or how ever you want to call them) it so easy to make bots valve should fix and after they make multiple bots.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-update-team-fortress-2-in-reaction-to-grassroots-savetf2-campaign
Team Fortress 2 has been updated by Valve today in response to the player-led #saveTF2 campaign that's seeking an answer to the classic multiplayer shooter's bot epidemic. However, the automatically applied update is primarily intended to sort out a variety of daft-sounding exploits. These range from teleporting back to your spawn point by changing loadout or class while touching the other

https://techbriefly.com/2024/06/04/fixtf2-save-tf2-petition-team-fortress-2/
The Save TF2 petition has over 100,000 signatures and is a plea to Valve, the creators of Team Fortress 2 (TF2), to tackle the bot problem ruining the game. Bots armed with aimbots are making Team Fortress 2 nearly unplayable, and the community wants Valve to take action. According to the players, these bots aren't just cheating; they're

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/valve-finally-speaks-on-team-fortress-2-after-years-of-silence-on-bot-crisis
After years of silence from Valve regarding the constant influx of bot accounts using hacks into Team Fortress 2's official servers, the developer has finally commented on the issue through the

https://www.pcgamesn.com/team-fortress-2/valve-savetf2-campaign
Another TF2 creator, WeezyTF2, posted a video compelling fans to tweet using the #SaveTF2 hashtag on May 26. Fans responded in droves, with current and former players alike sharing some of their

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/who-started-the-save-tf2-protest-and-did-it-succeed
On May 26th, Reddit, YouTube and Twitter became a stage for one of the largest and well-coordinated protests ever staged by a video game fandom. Fans of Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer FPS game released by Valve in 2007 and still enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of players worldwide, staged a peaceful online protest, posting over 250,000 tweets with the hashtag "#SaveTF2" in hopes of seeing

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/gu3mh7/investigation_into_the_bots_behind_the_tf2_bot/
These bots, known as the pazer bots, are a direct insult to the creator of the vote kick software that is used to kick the bots from servers. If you have this plugin installed, disable it until pazer can fix this issue. A second thing to say, is that mag0t may be behind this.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/440/discussions/0/3758852882956925152/
The other TF2 (Titan Fall 2) promised a fix for the DoS attacks and Hacker issues, yet nothing has appeared. You also have to account for the face that fixing the bot crisis isn't as simple as pressing the "No More Bots Button" like everyone pretends it exists.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2813538241
Hey Tf2 Community! I'm giving away one hat for each #SaveTf2 comment down below! This is to raise awareness for the game and show that the Tf2 community means business! put the tag next to your name! This is the least I can do. Absolutely spam the chat with #SaveTf2 ! LETS GOOO TF2! <3. We're rioting here as well!

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/18ryyq3/updated_new_wave_of_bots_heres_what_you_need_to/
That's the thing. A bot hoster can just load $5 into a new Steam account and buy 2 keys on the Mann Co. Store to unlock premium. Then later, they trade the keys away to their main account, and either cash them out or trade up until they make profit.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1935994199
Both of these buttons are very useful. Click the "MUTE PLAYER" button, and a menu will pop up. This menu lists all of the players currently in the game, regardless of team. Here, you can click on a user and select the "mute" button the mute both their voice in-game, AND anything they might try to say in the chat.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/i6e83b/a_guide_to_playing_with_bots_on_unsupported_maps/
First, you'll need to create a server. Pick whatever map you would like to play on, for example, ctf_2fort. (Note: I haven't playtested all gamemodes yet, so I'm not sure if all of them work) Customize the game settings to your liking, and then hit start. Type "sv_cheats 1" into the console, then add bots into your game by typing "tf_bot_add 23

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1ch6dbc/80_of_tf2s_player_base_is_bots/
A video. ZestyJesus compared the steam graph of players and the teamworktf graph of players to get an estimate of how many players are bots and how many are real. Most are idle bots, about 1000 are cheater bots, 2000 or so are trader bots leaving about 15k-20k humans. 70-80% of our players are bots.