{"id":1637428,"date":"2026-07-18T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sBdiVtbKRe5M34zXqFbT56"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:32:47","slug":"valve-reassures-team-fortress-2-players-that-its-still-working-on-the-mann-vs-machine-update-it-announced-last-year-we-promise-were-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valve-reassures-team-fortress-2-players-that-its-still-working-on-the-mann-vs-machine-update-it-announced-last-year-we-promise-were-making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve reassures Team Fortress 2 players that it&#8217;s still working on the Mann vs Machine update it announced last year: &#8216;We promise we&#8217;re making progress&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I had completely forgotten that Valve is working on an update for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/team-fortress-2\/\"> Team Fortress 2<\/a>&#8216;s cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though my defence, it&#8217;s been a long<em> <\/em>time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/valve-announces-team-fortress-2-is-getting-a-much-needed-update-focused-on-mann-vs-machine-a-chilling-cautionary-tale-where-an-artificial-consciousness-tried-to-take-all-our-jobs\/\"> announced<\/a> in June last year, via a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/post.php?id=247188\" target=\"_blank\"> blog post<\/a> on TF2&#8217;s official website that requested map and mission submissions from the community in time for this update\u2014with a &#8220;fictional deadline&#8221; of August 27.<\/p>\n<p>After that deadline passed, a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/post.php?id=252400\" target=\"_blank\"> brief progress report<\/a> was provided in September. But for the past ten months there&#8217;s been radio silence. Now though, Valve has provided another<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/post.php?id=276354\" target=\"_blank\"> snippet of info<\/a> on the patch&#8217;s status on its blog. &#8220;We wanted to give everyone an update on the update we already gave on the update we&#8217;re working on, and here it is: We&#8217;re still working on the MvM update.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t everything Valve had to say on the matter. But it is about half of it. Valve elaborated that &#8220;it&#8217;s taking a lot longer to sort through the new content and changes that we&#8217;d originally planned, but we promise we&#8217;re making progress. Thanks for being patient!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This tracks with the progress report Valve gave back in September, where it explained that its request for community contributions resulted in &#8220;way more&#8221; submissions than it expected. At the time, Valve admitted it didn&#8217;t &#8220;have a release date for the update yet&#8221; but it would be &#8220;going through the submissions and working on it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/C4cfo0f88Ug\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Obviously, Valve could allocate more resources to getting this update out of the door if it wanted to, given that Steam alone has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/steam-has-raked-in-an-estimated-usd11-1-billion-gross-revenue-so-far-this-year-says-market-analyst-its-biggest-ever-six-months\/\"> raked in an estimated $11.1 billion<\/a> in revenue this year\u2014not to mention the money Valve makes from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/counter-strike-2\/\"> Counter-Strike 2<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dota-2-review\/\"> Dota 2<\/a>, and the tens of thousands of players still involved with TF2.<\/p>\n<p>But that isn&#8217;t how Valve operates. The company&#8217;s flat structure means staff tend to drift between projects through a blend of desire and demand, and there&#8217;s been a lot happening this year that is likely to be of higher priority than updating TF2. This includes the launch of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/tag\/steam-machine\/\"> Steam Machine<\/a> and the upcoming release of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/steam-frame\/\"> Steam Frame<\/a>, alongside the ongoing development of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/deadlock\/\"> Deadlock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet while major updates for TF2 are sporadic, with the last arriving in 2023 and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/team-fortress-2-smashes-all-time-player-record-while-fans-hail-plump-seal-as-the-best-thing-theyve-ever-added-to-the-game\/\"> pushing player counts to an all-time high<\/a>, the game does get minor patches on a regular basis. Earlier this month, TF2<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/440\/view\/684131849711129047?l=english\" target=\"_blank\"> received an update<\/a> that added a bunch of community maps, cosmetics, taunts and so forth, with a flurry of smaller patches following to fix bugs and tweak parameters related to that update.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"be13ac9a-82ad-11f1-9fba-1d856d4cca8c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/valve-reassures-team-fortress-2-players-that-its-still-working-on-the-mann-vs-machine-update-it-announced-last-year-we-promise-were-making-progress.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"be13ac9a-82ad-11f1-9fba-1d856d4cca8c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/valve-reassures-team-fortress-2-players-that-its-still-working-on-the-mann-vs-machine-update-it-announced-last-year-we-promise-were-making-progress\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had completely forgotten that Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2&#8216;s cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though my defence, it&#8217;s been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2&#8217;s official website that requested map and mission submissions from the community in time for this update\u2014with a &#8220;fictional deadline&#8221; of August 27. After that deadline passed, a brief progress report was provided in September. But for the past ten months there&#8217;s been radio silence. Now though, Valve has provided another snippet of info on the patch&#8217;s status on its blog. &#8220;We wanted to give everyone an update on the update we already gave on the update&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valve-reassures-team-fortress-2-players-that-its-still-working-on-the-mann-vs-machine-update-it-announced-last-year-we-promise-were-making-progress\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1637428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Valve reassures 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