I’ve been posting some stuff to this community to help seed content, and in doing so I got into the right mood to boot up TF2 again. Having over 3700 hours in the game, I can confidently say there’s nothing else quite like it.

I’m rusty as hell, of course, but that doesn’t even matter; this game has a unique atmosphere on most pubs and community servers where you don’t need to be super good to enjoy yourself and messing around is encouraged, which is a rarity in a lot of modern titles. The problems that weigh the game down still make me sad, as they always have (lack of dev support, rampant cheaters on public lobbies, quite a few weapons being relegated to the trash bin because they’re simply bad, default graphics settings being pretty horrible and needing a config to tighten them up), but the community is still here and I find that endearing.