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Team Fortress 2 is the follow-up to both Team Fortress Classic and the original Quake mod, Team Fortress.

Unlike other "class-based" games that offer a variety of combat classes only, Team Fortress 2 packs a wild variety of classes which provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities, and lend themselves to a variety of player skills.

Play as the flame-throwing Pyro, the room-clearing Heavy, or the Spy, a master of stealth and disguises. Other classes include: Scout, Sniper, Medic, Engineer, Demoman, and Soldier.

Since June 2011, Team Fortress 2 is now available for free, separated from other packages such as The Orange Box.

There have been over 700 updates since the game's release.

A 64-bit version of Team Fortress 2 is under development, which features many changes, including WebM in favor of Bink videos, emoji support in chat (for Linux)^[1], more than 4GB RAM support and better performance.

Unique gameplay elements

• A class that can heal and buff teammates
  • The Medic and his medi guns
• Weapons which cause burst damage on request
  • Stickybomb Launcher
  • Scottish Resistance
  • Quickiebomb Launcher
  • Beggar's Bazooka
  • Nearly all taunts with melee weapons
• Throwable group debuffs which have an arcing trajectory
  1. Jarate and several reskins
  2. Mad Milk and a reskin
• Movable group buffs
  1. Buff Banner
  2. Battalion's Backup
  3. Concheror
• Random crits
  • Can be disabled with community servers and tf_weapon_criticals 0, tf_weapon_criticals_melee 0 commands
• The optional random bullet spread
  • Can be disabled with community servers and tf_use_fixed_weaponspreads 1 command.
• Pyrovision was added in the Pyromania Update on June 25th, 2012. It makes the user see weapons, cosmetics and a variation of the map they are playing that are only visible with Pyrovision enabled.

Content

• Team Fortress 2 (tf2)
• Source 2013 shared (hl2)
• Source shared (hl2)
• Source 2013 Multiplayer engine branch

System Requirements

Last updated: February 18, 2024

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8, 8.1 (with limitations due to Steam EOS) 10, 11	10, 11 (64-bit)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent 64-bit version of the game requires 64-bit capable CPU	Intel Core i3/i5/i7 or AMD equivalent
System memory (RAM)	3-4 GB RAM	6 GB RAM or more
Hard disk drive (HDD/SSD)	25 GB	25 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series/ATI Radeon X1600/Intel HD Graphics 3000 (DirectX 8.1 compatible)	DirectX 9 compatible, 1GB+ VRAM
Other	64-bit version is also available under x64_test beta branch, it is currently cannot connect to matchmaking servers, but any community servers running the same beta branch can be connected to. Additionally, 64-bit branch at the moment requires Windows 10 (or possibly 8.1), due to a bug that crashes the game as soon you have joined the servers (or by creating a local one) on older OS.

Note:DirectX 9 is required for Competitive Mode.

Note:* - Technically, this game is still playable on Windows XP and Vista (and once used to be supported on those operating systems), however support for Steam for these operating systems has been dropped as of 2019, and with TF2 having the Steam API updated later that year, thus these operating systems are automatically no longer supported from running TF2. Additionally, Windows 7 and 8, 8.1 support for Steam has been dropped in 2024, which may affect TF2 if the Steam API was updated for this game.

Note:As the game received updates over time, the system requirements listed on Steam is now massively out of date as the Pentium 4 and systems with 2GB RAM (both, which is listed on Recommended requirements on Steam), will struggled to run the game properly with average FPS at 8-15.

Furthermore, updates may also affect the Storage requirements over time.

External links

• Team Fortress 2 on Steam Store
• Team Fortress 2 on Steam Community
• Competitive TF2 Wiki
• TF2Maps.net
• TF2 on Gamebanana
• Black Mesa on ModDB

References

References
1. shounic (February 13, 2024). "new & important 64 bit beta: explained & benchmarked?t=0 tf2's new & important 64 bit beta: explained & benchmarked" (at 4:55).  YouTube. Retrieved February 13, 2024..