Team Fortress 2

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This article is about the game. For documentation of Team Fortress 2 tools, see Team Fortress 2 - Development Documents.

Team Fortress 2

Developer(s)

Valve Corporation

Publisher(s)

Electronic Arts (retail)
Valve Corporation

Series

Team Fortress series

Release date(s)

October 10, 2007 

Windows, Xbox 360:
October 10, 2007
PlayStation 3:
December 11, 2007
macOS:
June 10, 2010
Linux:
February 14, 2013

Genre(s)

First-person shooter

Mode(s)

Single-player, Multiplayer

Platform(s)

Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

Engine

Source (TF2 branch)

Steam AppID

440

Written in

C++

Mod support

Yes (custom folder and Steam Workshop)

SDK

Source SDK

System requirements

• Win 7 or later (32/64-bit)
• Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent
• 4 GB RAM
• 30 GB disk space
• Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series/ATI Radeon X1600/Intel HD Graphics 3000 (DirectX 9 compatible)

For details, see below

Distribution

Retail, Steam

Official website

Official Website

Links

Steam page

Previous game

Team Fortress Classic

Team Fortress 2 is the follow-up to both Team Fortress Classic and the original Quake mod, Team Fortress. The game was originally released and only available with The Orange Box package.

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 The Orange Box.

There have been over 700 updates since the game's release, including Jungle Inferno. As of today, the game is still receiving some updates.

On April 19, 2024, an engine update was released which features many changes, including 64-bit support (allowing more than 4GB RAM to be used), DXVK integration, WebM (replacing Bink videos), Miles Sound System being replaced with MiniMP3, emoji support in chat (for Linux)^[2], and better performance^[1]. The 64-bit update is not available for macOS users, however.

As of June 3-4, 2024, the game recently received mixed reviews for recent reviews, then quickly become negative as many players review bombed the game due to amount of bot accounts used for cheating, harassment and trolling purposes entering Valve casual matchmaking servers.^[3] Weeks later, Valve responded by banning several bot accounts (including the bot hosters), and added a Steam Support page.

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 on community servers through console commands tf_weapon_criticals 0 and tf_weapon_criticals_melee 0.
• Random bullet spread
  • Can be disabled on community servers and tf_use_fixed_weaponspreads 1 command.
• Pyrovision (added in the Pyromania Update on June 25th, 2012.) 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)
• Team Fortress 2 branch (updated version of Source 2013 Multiplayer)

System Requirements

Last updated: May 7, 2024

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows 7 or later	Windows 10, Windows 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)	4 GB RAM	6 GB RAM or more
Hard disk drive (HDD/SSD)	30 GB	30 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series/ATI Radeon X1600/Intel HD Graphics 3000 (DirectX 9 compatible)	DirectX 9 compatible, 1GB+ VRAM

Note:DirectX 9 is required for Competitive Mode.

Note:Support for Windows XP and Vista has been dropped with later updates. 64-bit executable requires Windows 7 or later.

Note:As the game received updates over time, the system requirements listed on Steam are massively out of date as the Pentium 4 and systems with 2GB RAM (both, which are listed on Recommended requirements on Steam), will struggle to run the game properly with average FPS at 8-15. It is unknown whether the recent 64-bit update (which also fixed performance issues) will increase the game performance for Pentium 4 CPUs/system less than 2GB RAM.

Furthermore, updates have affected the Storage requirements over time.

External links

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

References

References

1. Team Fortress 2 Update Released. Steam. Retrieved April 18, 2024. 2. shounic (February 13, 2024). "tf2's new & important 64 bit beta: explained & benchmarked" (at 4:55).  YouTube. Retrieved February 13, 2024. 3. "Enough is enough": Over 120,000 Team Fortress 2 players sign #FixTF2 petition for Valve to end the 'Bot Crisis' that's plagued the FPS for 5 years. Windows Central. Retrieved June 4, 2024.