Maybe depending on your class. Afer 10 years they fixed this particular bug.

"Video games with a dedicated developer team periodically release software patches to fix broken things. Sometimes these come at the behest of the title's community, and dedicated users can be counted on to pick apart janky or erratic flaws faster than developers can address them. Unless everyone misses something for, say, a decade. That's how long a particular bug had been in the shooter Team Fortress 2 -- since it was released in 2007 -- if a pair of modders are to believed, an issue that studio Valve finally fixed in yesterday's game update.

The phenomenon would've flown under history's radar if Reddit user sigsegv hadn't called attention to a particular fix nestled in this recent patch's unusually dense list of addressed issues. In a comment, sigsegv pointed out that he'd reported this bug to Valve after a developer of the TF2 Classic mod, Nicknine, first exposed the issue in a video a few weeks ago and claimed it had been in the game since its original release. sigsegv__ made his own video exploring its severity:

To explain the bug simply, if someone started the game as one of three particular classes and then shifted to any of the six others, their character would have one set of hitboxes and the server would register a slightly different one to other players. The mismatch between animated model and actual hittable zones means a decent amount of shots taken over the game's ten-year lifespan were likely near-misses when they should've been hits, assuaging the ego of anyone who swore they'd gotten that sweet headshot that one time.

Fixing it was as simple as changing one line of code, sigsegv__ claims in the Reddit comment, but knowing which line and where was the real trick. We've reached out to both modders and Valve, and will update when we know more about the bug. For now, rest easy that your shots are slightly more accurate and a long-overlooked wrong has been righted."

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/15/team-fortress-2-patch-fixes-decade-old-bug/

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Nah, I just simply suck in that game :^)

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What Adam said xD

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I may go back to tf2 / csgo, Overwatch is a good place. You cannot dodge enemies' attack if your enemies really hit you.

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Cs:go is much better

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well at least this time they fixed bugs instead of attacking idlers. just took them 10 years.

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Or the many that still use hacks and auto aim.

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They can't fix a bug until they know that either A: the bug exists and B: how to reproduce it.

In this case people apparently just never noticed.

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Nah, the game is just shit

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Noooo, now i just hate you. -_-

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embrace the truth ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I embrace fully that i hate you yeah. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Well, I only tried the game for a weekend after a friendly recommendation, but I definitely always changed my class within a round so great. xD

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Bump! Thanks for super secret GA!

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Hoho...

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Is my mind in the gutter when i easilly read it as an U?
I mean especially when we talk about sucking.

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LOL, that would certainly change the meaning of the gif and would probably get me banned (especially with the new support members) :p

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Oh, thought new support members actually seemed cooler and easier then some old ones. :p

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I have this irrational fear that support is just waiting for me to slip up so they can ban me from the site and now there's more of them! :p

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Well... better late than never, I guess '-'

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But I don't suck at TF2 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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W+m1 pyro like a pro is the way to go. :p

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Nah, pyro is easy mode, scout is where it's at.

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Yeah was sarcasm, always certain people complaining about it, just had one actually.

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It's easy to counter if you know what you're doing though.

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That's not to say I didn't enjoy doing it myself at times when I felt lazy.

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Yeah especially when your team got a counter pyro to extinguish your team mates, let alone two it's easily outdone.
Burning someone from the back it's called w+m1 and it's "lame" yet when a spy does it, it's considered what he supposed to do.

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Spies can be pretty lame too :p I don't mind if a Pyro does that, if I fall for such a noobish tactic I deserve to die, or if he caught me off guard good for him. I usually kill him outside his flamethrower's range to counter it.

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Considering they take months to fix known game breaking bugs and lied about other things being fixed before, I am genuinely surprised that they even fixed it.

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It's valve after all...

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So maybe i should give it another go....

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Somehow I'm not surprised of Valve. Also this is a mega trap when claimed, -2 points.

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caught!

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caught ^^

shit, too late

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Shit? How so? ;)
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seconds late :c
oh well...

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At least read my post. :P
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I did, I guess my compression isn't that good
I understood that the first one gets the point

I'm a moron
you were talking about your comment

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It was a trap comment, claiming it takes 2 points off your score. ^^
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I read that too late
guess I was kind of lucky

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Now I just need to wait for all the other games I suck at to get fixed.

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While I'm not surprised that something like this could go unnoticed by Valve for so long, I'm really shocked that the competitive community never really caught onto this until now. I can understand that it would be difficult to tell in an online match because of lag compensation, but quite a few people analyze frame data so it's strange that such a massive bug wouldn't be better known.

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There is this group f.e that are trying to spot cheaters, some are about how certain cheaters seem to aim right next to a target but still hit, i wonder if that has something to do with it too and if valve fixed this if in some cases it will get harder to spot certain cheaters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dFT9pNNGiE

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Thanks for sharing. That's an interesting video and theory.

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B-But I don't need hitboxes with pyro xD
I guess Valve is abandoning tf2

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