Team Fortress 2 goes back to beta

Valve has announced that Team Fortress 2 is heading back to public beta status, with all current owners invited to test out all kinds of weird and wonderful changes.

'As you've probably seen by now, we like to change things in Team Fortress 2. A lot. And while we're perfect most of the time, we occasionally get something wrong,' said Valve via the official TF2 blog.

'One reason for this is we just don't get enough data from internal play testing. So, to help us change TF2 even more frequently, we're pleased to announce the Team Fortress 2 (public) beta.'

The beta is all set to be open to everyone who owns a copy of Team Fortress 2. All you need to do is install the handily named 'Team Fortress 2 Beta' option that will now be available within your Steam account.

The official blog details some of the changes which Valve is trying out in the new beta release right now, including new balancing of weapons and items, some map changes and new game-wise tweaks such as doubling player health. Feedback can be given via the official TF2 Public Beta forum

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