Changelog · protfx

14 Oct 2026

A player on the server is no longer subbed out for not connecting. Before asking for a substitute because someone didn't connect in time, the game now asks the server who is on it, so a player who joined but whose arrival the site missed keeps their place.

A drafted game waits for a server. When every server is busy as a draft ends, the game now waits and keeps asking for one for up to ten minutes, as the first-come games already do, instead of being called off at once. And when a game gives its server back, the lobbies notice it within seconds rather than minutes.
The Highlander draft shows the teams in class order. Each team's row now runs Scout to Spy, as in TF2, with an empty cell for every class still to be picked, so you can see at a glance which classes a team is missing. 6v6 keeps its pick order.

Captains pick their substitute. When players apply to fill a substitute request, the captain who asked sees who they are, with their ratings, and can put one in straight away. Nobody picked by the end of the minute? One of them is chosen as before.

Going to your game and back no longer reloads the page. From a Format's lobby to the game page and back, the notifications keep going and what you had typed in the chat is still there. The game page now carries the lobby's strip across the top too: the Format's running games, the substitutes wanted and your restrictions.

A server that doesn't start is swapped for another. When the server booked for your game still isn't up two minutes later, it is given back and another one booked.

Connect joins the game again. The Connect, Reconnect and Watch on STV buttons open the game with the server's address instead of its name, which Steam would not join.
Link Mumble says what to do when Mumble does nothing. The panel names the server to connect to by hand, with its own Copy, says what a first time in Mumble takes, and links to where you get Mumble.
A Mumble outage no longer stops the games. When the voice server has been unreachable for five minutes you can add up without linking Mumble, and when it is back nobody already added up is dropped. Join voice on the game page waits until your team's channel is ready.
Join voice puts you in under your Alias. Join voice and the Lounge links connect you by name, a Substitute gets the link once the team's channel lets them in, and "Nothing happened?" under Join voice shows the server, port, name and channel to join by hand.
The draft board says why a player can't be picked. A player the picking team can't take right now is greyed out with a lock; hover over them, tab to them or tap them to see why. The Restricted Pick warning now shows only on a pick that really spends one.

protfx is live. Pickup games of Team Fortress 2 for everyone: add up for a Format, captains draft the teams, and a server is booked for you. Ultiduo and BBall skip the draft: take a Seat, and when a Court is full the game starts. Every game counts towards your rating on the Leaderboard.