The gameplay itself is excellent easily the best of a first person shooter (personal opinion).

The game however suffers in a few areas, there is a moderately sized skill gap, you see some cheaters/bots and there are still some odd bugs that should probably be fixed (map vote bug, projectiles through thin walls/doors, etc.) valve has seem to start being semi active recently and has resolved some of these long standing bugs.

The bot issue has largely been fixed as it is common to not see any bots in a match and the few that you do see are easily dispatched as you only see few bots typically 1 maybe every 5 hours.

Closest hackers still appear and are pretty toxic but they are relatively rare maybe one ever 20-30+ games and are varying level of difficulty to kick.

Team imbalance is moderately common as well due to large sized skill gaps between players and people understanding how to play strong setups e.g. kritzkreg medic and demoman or phlogisternator pyro and uber medic. This can lead to spawn camping of some teams infrequently around 1 in 30 games with moderate imbalances probably being more common at like 1 in 10. This really needs a scramble teams option in the vote menu (which was removed from the game in meet you match 7/7/2016).

Overall the game is fun with all classes being fairly unique and interesting playstyles and as long as you can kick the occasional bot/cheater and are fine with a few annoying bugs and getting skilled gapped a moderate amount (good players will go at maximum about 4:1 except if they have a carry/power setup) and have some unbalanced teams. I would give it a shot as it is one of my favourite games right now and has been for the last few years.

The gameplay itself is excellent easily the best of a first person shooter (personal opinion). The game however suffers in a few areas, there is a moderately sized skill gap, you see some cheaters/bots and there are still some odd bugs that should probably be fixed (map vote bug, projectiles through thin walls/doors, etc.) valve has seem to start being semi active recently and has resolved some of these long standing bugs. The bot issue has largely been fixed as it is common to not see any bots in a match and the few that you do see are easily dispatched as you only see few bots typically 1 maybe every 5 hours. Closest hackers still appear and are pretty toxic but they are relatively rare maybe one ever 20-30+ games and are varying level of difficulty to kick. Team imbalance is moderately common as well due to large sized skill gaps between players and people understanding how to play strong setups e.g. kritzkreg medic and demoman or phlogisternator pyro and uber medic. This can lead to spawn camping of some teams infrequently around 1 in 30 games with moderate imbalances probably being more common at like 1 in 10. This really needs a scramble teams option in the vote menu (which was removed from the game in meet you match 7/7/2016). Overall the game is fun with all classes being fairly unique and interesting playstyles and as long as you can kick the occasional bot/cheater and are fine with a few annoying bugs and getting skilled gapped a moderate amount (good players will go at maximum about 4:1 except if they have a carry/power setup) and have some unbalanced teams. I would give it a shot as it is one of my favourite games right now and has been for the last few years.