Talk:Team Fortress 2

It seems at some point the system requirements section was changed to some data which I cannot find references to anywhere on Steam or anything else Valve related. But before I change it back to what Steam recommends, I'm not sure if I should change it back, considering the fact that these requirements are so outdated that most of them are not true anymore.

Steam claims that it requires 512MB of RAM and 15GB of storage space minimum, but as the game has just gotten larger, even their recommended specs might not be enough. Due to the addition of stuff like weapon skins and lots of cosmetics, playing the game with under 2GB of ram is very difficult, and the game takes up way more than 15GB. While I do have some custom content installed, my game takes up a whopping 31GB of storage space, so the official storage required is probably around 30GB, which is still double minimum/recommended on the Steam page!

So what do we do if the minimum and even recommended specs are not the minimum for the game anymore?

I recently went through and changed all of the localization listings to show their correct subtitle support, but the game only has subtitles for the Developer Commentary of the game, which most players probably will never even look at. Should we consider this subtitle support? It's so limited and only in a place that is far away from actual gameplay that i'm considering changing them to false.

Key points

   Receives frequent updates.[2]

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Does TF2 still even recieve updates? I mean, it does, but minor ones

You're right -- I've removed both that one and the "active community" one since they really do not belong there and is of a temporal nature (they're only accurate for a certain period of time).

Does anyone have a weird freezing effect in TF2? While playing the game, it suddenlty decides to freeze for ~15 seconds (with audio in a loop) before continuing. It's most common at the beginning of the game (when everything isn't loaded), and it seems to become less frequent as the game is ongoing.

I'd blame the web-browsers, they probably cut into the memory needed by TF2.

By web browser to you mean the Steam Layover browser or other browsers open in the background?

Web browsers would be the actual browsers in the background.

Of course, I'm not sure on the exact cause; it seemed to affect Team Fortress more than another source game. Seems a bit weird, but it's best to see if the symptoms can be reproduced.

Link

Do we really need patches link and if it is for documenting the patches for tf2 why not have link to the official team fortress wiki update page or even to tf2.com updates scrap that bit most of the links that are on are already covered by the tf2 wiki would it be better to set up redirects to those pages

Which link are you referring to? Of course for TF2 - there is not really any benefit to applying your own patches, or downloading your own patches, because Steam handles all of this automatically.

links such as the updates and the resuply due to the fact that (as far as i know) this wiki covers help for doing stuff such as co-op split screen for portal 2 and other things where as with updates and the re-supply dont need much explaining

This wiki focuses on technical issues mostly - I don't see anything that is duplicated. If you want to add a link to reduce duplicated work you should and we can review it :).

thing im getting at the updates and re-supy dont need any technical explaination so can we get rid of the links

There are interwiki links which are not working, I'll be looking at this.