Team Fortress 2
Valve Corporation
October 10, 2007
PlayStation 3:
December 11, 2007
macOS:
June 10, 2010
Linux:
February 14, 2013
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.
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
- Jarate and several reskins
- Mad Milk and a reskin
- Movable group buffs
- Buff Banner
- Battalion's Backup
- Concheror
- Random crits
- Can be disabled on community servers through console commands
tf_weapon_criticals 0andtf_weapon_criticals_melee 0.
- Can be disabled on community servers through console commands
- 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.
History
Team Fortress 2 was released in October 10, 2007 for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The console version of the game received minor updates until March 19, 2008 (for PlayStation 3) and July 21, 2009 (for Xbox 360). PC version on the other hand, have been over 800+ updates since the game's release, including major updates like Jungle Inferno (in 2017). As of today, the game is still receiving some updates.
Since June 2011, Team Fortress 2 is now available for free, separated from The Orange Box.
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. Team Fortress 2 has its own updated version of Source 2013 Multiplayer branch called the 
Team Fortress 2 branch, which adds these above features. The branch later eventually succeeded Source 2013 Multiplayer, with all previous Valve multiplayer titles on Source 2013 Multiplayer now upgraded to the Team Fortress 2 branch in February 18, 2025.
During June 3-4, 2024, the game received mixed reviews for recent reviews, then 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.
Content
- Team Fortress 2 (
tf2) - Half-Life 2 shared asset (
hl2) - Team Fortress 2 branch (updated version of Source 2013 Multiplayer)
Gallery
Limitations/Bugs
- For the list of Team Fortress 2 bugs, see this GitHub page.
This section only list various bugs or issues that are commonly encountered.
☒ Unresolved issues
- Replays - Broken YouTube support
- Due to deprecation of
YouTube API v2[4], it is impossible to upload Replays to YouTube in-game, making these achievements (Home Movie, Local Cinema Star, Indie Film Sensation and Blockbuster), impossible to achieve.
System Requirements
Last updated: May 7, 2024
 Windows |
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| 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
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