TF2 is my favorite game of all time. Unfortunately I can not recommend it to new players though in the current way it is meant to be played. If you are using the valve match making service, playing as the devs intend you to, you will run into bots that play the game with hacks. During peak times this tends to be okay since there are enough people for full servers, but due to this game only having around 15k people playing at peak it is hard to find a sever without bots.

If you want to play this game it must be done on a community server. Until they fix the bot issue I cannot change my recommendation to a yes. I am okay with no major updates ever again; I know updating old software can be hard, but they need to fix the core issues at hand at the very least. This is the least valve could do for a game they are still making money from micro transactions on... Hell valve makes money from every community market transaction someone makes in this game on top of it all...

If valve cannot do that, they need to remove valve hosted servers entirely in my opinion. Because it is just a misadvertisement at this point, even if the game is free. Not to mention how valve benefits from having TF2 falsely in the steam top 15 even though there are not actually 95K people playing at peak... It is kinda anti competitive.

TF2 is my favorite game of all time. Unfortunately I can not recommend it to new players though in the current way it is meant to be played. If you are using the valve match making service, playing as the devs intend you to, you will run into bots that play the game with hacks. During peak times this tends to be okay since there are enough people for full servers, but due to this game only having around 15k people playing at peak it is hard to find a sever without bots. If you want to play this game it must be done on a community server. Until they fix the bot issue I cannot change my recommendation to a yes. I am okay with no major updates ever again; I know updating old software can be hard, but they need to fix the core issues at hand at the very least. This is the least valve could do for a game they are still making money from micro transactions on... Hell valve makes money from every community market transaction someone makes in this game on top of it all... If valve cannot do that, they need to remove valve hosted servers entirely in my opinion. Because it is just a misadvertisement at this point, even if the game is free. Not to mention how valve benefits from having TF2 falsely in the steam top 15 even though there are not actually 95K people playing at peak... It is kinda anti competitive.