Everyone who isn’t a friendly is tired of friendlies,
hence this guide to aid actual players of Team Fortress to be able to play the shooter in places where only they should be.

You may want to start a votekick on your friendly with a different reason stated beforehand and then keep typing/saying “F1 F1 F1 F1” until the vote is over, and ask the enemy team to votekick the enemy friendly for a different reason.
“They are friendlies/griefers” reasons almost never work.

if you face a greater amount of friendlies than actual players, which is absurdly common, there is not much room to handle the matter properly, sadly…

But there’s one, kinda meh, solution to avoid being votekicked by friendlies.
The fix is to queue in a party, preferably of six.

Autobalance can get in the way though.
And this might be too complex…

I humbly subjectively think you should always try to impel friendlies to play the game by any (standard) means. Use every opportunity you have, never give up aiming to free non-friendly servers like official VALVe ones and non-friendly community servers from friendlies.

Ignoring friendlies is not an option, they literally “multiply” (invoke the others to become friendlies) if you do, and they are way worse than any of the cheaters in so many ways, for the reasons like because they are normalized and harder to kick.
It’s a shooter, not a tea party.

I persynally believe you’re part of the problem by not attacking them in a PvP and acting like they are a non-issue, the choice is still yours ofc-y, but please keep that in mind.

|TL;DR F1 HACKER F1 F1 F1 F1|

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