Team Fortress 2 has been neglected by Valve for years, its last major update releasing nearly eight years ago in 2017. Aside from the occasional technical updates and small community content inclusions, TF2 hasn’t seen much new stuff since Jungle Inferno, but that is perhaps about to change.
In a strange, barely understandable but nonetheless in-character blog post, Valve announced a new major update for the game’s co-op vs. AI game mode, Mann vs. Machine.
The devs made the announcement indirectly, via a short story, asking players to submit their own custom-made maps and missions to Valve by Aug. 27 so they would be included in the update. Later on in the story, via a tale of Ancient Greece and stone tablets, Valve also indicated a second part of the update would arrive by Halloween, and that submissions shouldn’t all be Halloween-themed (TF2 has been getting generally just minor Halloween updates over the years and not much else).
So, given how the story reads, this new Mann vs. Machine update could entail a mix of a ton of community-made content (but actual content, like maps and missions, not skins and hats) and original stuff created by Valve itself, to be implemented into the game in two batches.
This would mark nearly 12 years since the last substantial update to Mann vs. Machine and some eight years since some proper original, operation-sized content was added to Team Fortress 2 itself. The game has been drier than gunpowder for a long, long time, and Valve seems finally inclined to reinvigorate its classic 2007 title (yes, it’s been nearly 20 years since Team Fortress 2 came out).
It could also be an inauguration of something greater. If this new update isn’t entirely composed of community-made additions and Valve actually puts in the extra effort to make it more original than not, we could be seeing the first of many content updates in Team Fortress 2, a game that refuses to die and dwindle despite all the negligence.
Or, well, it could just be the one janitor at Valve trying to patch something up from what the community gives him, giving us false hope that TF2 is on its way up from the pits.
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