Team Fortress 2 launched back in 2007 and since then Valve has continued to update the class-based FPS, though not always as frequently as fans might want. And during all those updates over nearly two decades, a bug involving Blu Team Scoutâs pants being the wrong color was never fixed. That changed yesterday.
On October 24, with no fanfare, Valve pushed out a relatively small update for its free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2. The small patch fixed and tweaked various bugs and mistakes, as you would expect, but buried in the patch notes is one fix that caught the attention of Team Fortress 2âČs most dedicated fans.
Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team color pants
Without any context that might just seem like yet one more tiny bug fixed by Valve, but this has actually been a problem in TF2 since its release. And although fans have pointed it out in the past, it was never addressed. Blu Scoutâs pants, for the last 17 years, have been brown, which is incorrect. His pants should be grey, just like all the other classes on the Blu Team. Brown pants are intended for Red Team members. Yet, this mistake has persisted for nearly two decades, despite the evidence
THEY MADE BLU SCOUTâS PANTS BLUE
THEY CHANGED A CHARACTER DESIGN 17 YEARS LATER WHAT pic.twitter.com/WFPdYvwYzx
â heavy team fortres 2 (@heavyfortres) October 24, 2024
And then, out of nowhere, Valve fixed it. Now Blu Scoutâs pants are grey, which is nice, although it also means a bunch of community-created cosmetics for that character look ugly because they were designed with brown pants.
Why now, after 17 years, did Valve fix this long-known TF2 bug? We donât know, and because Valve famously doesnât explain many of their decisions or plans, your guess is as good as mine.
However, I have a theory about this change. Last year, around this same time, Valve fixed a very old bug in Half-Life involving a monsterâs animation. I think as the year wraps up, Valve might let devs tinker as the holidays approach, and perhaps thatâs why this patch has suddenly appeared. Maybe someone got a bit of free time and used it to hop into TF2 and correct this mistake?
Or perhaps Valve just likes trolling fans? Maybe both! Anyway, Scoutâs pants are finally the correct color and we can all sleep easy knowing that the world is a better place.
