Team Fortress 2 supports servers with 100 players, previously a maximum of 32

Valve has increased the maximum player count of Team Fortress 2 from 32 to 100. At the same time, the company says that it is not recommended to put this into practice. Videos from the facility show a chaotic scene.

It is striking that nothing else has been changed in the game to support the larger number of players; levels like 2Fort are still made for much smaller groups of players. Valve mentions the optional maximum therefore ‘not supported’ and ‘not recommended’, but it is possible. Players have already reported crashes with so many players, but others manage to play a game of TF2.

Valve’s multiplayer shooter, which was part of The Orange Box, is almost 16 years old. Despite the fact that the system requirements are modest by today’s standards, the game is still technically unable to run smoothly on modern systems with so many players. Nevertheless, the community is responding positively to the update, partly because TF2 simply doesn’t get updates that often anymore.

In addition to the optional higher limit, a new game mode has been added that was previously unofficial: USA Saxton Hale. In this game, a player takes control of a very powerful character and all other players in the server must kill him.