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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.

In April 19, 2024, a Team Fortress 2 update has been released which features many changes, including 64-bit support, Vulkan renderer on Windows, WebM in favor of Bink videos, and MiniMP3 support, emoji support in chat (for Linux)^[2], more than 4GB RAM support and better performance^[1]. 64-bit update is not available for Mac users, however.

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 (32-bit client only) 10, 11 (64-bit)	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 9 compatible)	DirectX 9 compatible, 1GB+ VRAM
Other	64-bit version of the game 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, and since April 19, 2024 (64-bit) update, DirectX 9 is now required in order to play the game as support DirectX 8.1 is currently broken with the 64-bit update.

Note:* - Support for Windows XP and Vista has been dropped with later updates. Additionally, Windows 10 or later is required for the 64-bit client tf_win64.exe to work due to a bug that crashes the game on older systems, users with Windows 7 - 8.1 can workaround this by using the 32-bit client tf.exe instead.

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. Team Fortress 2 Update Released. Steam. Retrieved April 18, 2024.. 2. 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..