The free-to-play 2007 shooter a similar spike to a record high in December of last year.
The spike in players comes after the game received a major patch fighting the bots that plague Team Fortress 2 lobbies. That same update introduced a case of cosmetics for summer 2021—TF2 was one of the first games to have such things, you may . The case has 18 new items and six new unusual effects, all made by the TF2 community.
The update, while it does seem to have broken a lot of TF2 server mods, has been generally well-received by the community. It's a nice thing to see that what may well have been the most influential multiplayer shooter of the 21st century stay not just available, but thriving, heading into a new decade.
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