

And even though most of the bots can’t chat anymore, they can still call vote kicks against actual players and flood matches with coordinated disruption campaigns. This removes a large portion of the bigoted speech, but it also means free-account players can’t communicate in-game. Hughes was under the impression that the chat restrictions on free accounts would be temporary, but they’re still in place today. They may have taken away the bots’ ability to unequip your cosmetic items and it's now impossible for free accounts to spam the chat with racist stuff, but casual mode is pretty much unplayable now.” More specifically, Hughes said, “The bots are worse than ever. At the time, he called it “disastrous.” Nowadays, his description of the situation has changed. Longtime TF2 player Jason Hughes (name changed to keep him anonymous in-game) brought the bot situation to my attention in early June 2020.

There’s still a big bot problem in TF2, and it looks like Valve is still ignoring it.

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