Left 4 Dead 2 came out in 2009 and Portal 2 followed in 2011, and that’s the last players have seen of those series. It’s the proprietor of a handful of legendary franchises that have stalled out at the height of their popularity, including Left 4 Dead, Portal and Half-Life. Valve is notoriously secretive, and the company has a reputation for doing whatever the hell it wants, fans and Steam developers be damned. It’s a long-running joke that Valve quietly abandoned TF2 years ago, but developers have popped up and updated the game just enough to keep hope alive. It’s unclear why Valve has largely ignored TF2’s bot problem. There's absolutely no way they aren't aware of this.”
“My opinion of Valve has been deeply damaged and I don't know if it will ever recover. “I refuse to buy any more games or give them any of my money until this is fixed,” Hughes said. That exploit was patched within a week, but a majority of the bots remained.
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And in late March, some of the TF2 bots figured out how to crash the game’s servers, rendering it unplayable. That’s not a baseless assumption - in April, the source code for both CS:GO and TF2 leaked online, and Valve was quick to contain it and make public statements. “If Valve were motivated at all, they could find out,” Hughes said. Players suspect the bots stem from an ongoing, open-source project on Github, plus a handful of copycats.
Hughes estimates 80 percent of his matches have at least one bot, but it’s more common to see multiple at a time, or even be outnumbered by them. It's even possible for them to follow you from one match to another.” I'm not certain, but I believe some bots can even initiate the kick votes themselves. “Some of them are able to copy people's names and even avatars, leading to many innocent players getting kicked from matches. “They use aimbot and spam chat with content that's racist, homophobic, inflammatory, pornographic - including child pornography - and just generally offensive,” he said.