The discharge of Staff Fortress 2’s long-awaited Summer time Replace this week took the almost 16-year-old multiplayer recreation to a brand new all-time file for concurrent gamers. Yesterday over 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 individuals have been taking part in TF2 on the similar time, almost doubling the earlier file, and that too was set simply final 12 months, signaling that there’s nonetheless quite a lot of life left within the wildly in style shooter.
Staff Fortress 2 reached a peak of 253,997 concurrent gamers on July 14 (in line with SteamDB), surpassing the earlier file of 167,951 set final December. Which means TF2 has now set all-time information for concurrent gamers for 3 consecutive years, going from just below 150,000 gamers in 2020 to only over in 2021. Not dangerous for a recreation midway by way of its second decade, huh?
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A big a part of Staff Fortress 2’s present resurgence is as a result of huge summer time replace launched on July 12, which added over a dozen new group maps and a ton of beauty gadgets, together with gadgets, taunts, results, and paints from battle, in addition to some extra common fixes and enhancements.
Extra importantly, a kind of 14 group maps, the Scandinavian-inspired fishing village Selbyen, features a sigil you possibly can feed fish thrown by enemies. The lovable seal is the centerpiece of the map, with the primary workforce feeding him 100 profitable fish. She maintains her pleasant expression and aura of splendor, seemingly oblivious to the fixed gunfire and bloodshed going down round her—and, certainly, in her identify.
Unsurprisingly, everybody loves the sigil, which fits by many names (Silvia is her actual identify, in line with the map’s lead designer), and has impressed memes, fanart, and infinite social media discussions. In response to its recognition, the builders behind Selbyen at the moment are planning to donate a portion of the earnings from the map to the Skegness seal sanctuary. So everybody wins: Valve, gamers and seals.
