The Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend is nearing its end. I downloaded the game and played for an hour and a half on Friday evening. I do have The Orange Box, which contains Team Fortress 2, on the 360 but I never felt compelled to play it there. Partly because there were some serious lag issues when it first launched.
I like the game — it’s a very well made shooter — and I love its art direction and design but I don’t know if I’m willing to buy it for a second time. Things are different on the PC. During my third match, on Friday, some loser connected to the server I was on and started blasting, through the voice chat, Haddaway’s “What is Love?” and other shitty 90s pop tunes. He was instantly muted.
That kind of experience reminded me why I don’t like playing games like this on the PC. Sure, there are many douchebags on XBox Live too but being on a more closed system their griefing abilities are limited. On the PC, which is far more open to hacks and exploits, this kind of annoying bullshit is so much more aggravating and so much more common. It all makes the price of entry, even when it’s free, not worth it.
Never mind that you can completely turn voice chat off with the click of a button. Never mind that the Xbox 360 version also has voice chat.
Team Fortress 2 has hacks? The issue you’re complaining about has *nothing to do* with hacking. Even if it *was* an issue, most of the servers I saw were running prema-ban anti-cheat systems. Pretty much the only thing you can get away with are transparent wall hacks, and those won’t last long once Valve thinks to make checksums for textures.
Free online play, less lag, more maps, custom maps, capability for more players per match, better control scheme, and player-run servers.
Yeah, I have no idea why people perfer the PC version.