This games vanilla gameplay is not in a great state but has significantly improved due to bots being way less common due to their efforts to fix them.

This games community created content and servers are what keep me playing (there is like an near infinite amount of new content being created to this day), definitely one of the best games in that regard but if you want to play a game for its vanilla gameplay it may not be the game for you due to the occasional unplayable lobby because of bots, though there are some vanilla community servers that do not have the boting issue.

servers i recommend are redsun.tf for custom gamemodes/content all in the same server on a rotation, uncletopia for vanilla. blackwonder.tf custom gamemodes server specific. disc-ff more custom content. Jump academy for movement tech practice. Parkour fortress for a unique parkour based gamemode with some custom movement. Moonlight and potato.tf for custom mvm content.

servers I do not recommend (avoid these): skial (♥♥♥♥♥♥ adverts spam and corrupt staff, wonderland (steals plugins and overall ♥♥♥♥♥♥ servers), "achievment" servers, "give free items" servers (they are scams lol), ALTFS. saigns.de. titan.tf (REALLY BAD plugin popups every 3 plank constant seconds and literally everything bad imaginable and features locked to premium). necgaming.

This games vanilla gameplay is not in a great state but has significantly improved due to bots being way less common due to their efforts to fix them. This games community created content and servers are what keep me playing (there is like an near infinite amount of new content being created to this day), definitely one of the best games in that regard but if you want to play a game for its vanilla gameplay it may not be the game for you due to the occasional unplayable lobby because of bots, though there are some vanilla community servers that do not have the boting issue. servers i recommend are redsun.tf for custom gamemodes/content all in the same server on a rotation, uncletopia for vanilla. blackwonder.tf custom gamemodes server specific. disc-ff more custom content. Jump academy for movement tech practice. Parkour fortress for a unique parkour based gamemode with some custom movement. Moonlight and potato.tf for custom mvm content. servers I do not recommend (avoid these): skial (shitty adverts spam and corrupt staff, wonderland (steals plugins and overall shitty servers), "achievment" servers, "give free items" servers (they are scams lol), ALTFS. saigns.de. titan.tf (REALLY BAD plugin popups every 3 plank constant seconds and literally everything bad imaginable and features locked to premium). necgaming.