Not currently playing tf2, but I saw people on reddit complaining about the item server being down for extended periods of time, I just want to see the extent of the issue.
uh some people seem to be fine but most aren't, was playing some highlander last night with stock soldier, was mostly annoying since the other team got to use some of the more annoying items like natasha
We quickly checked on our side, the two times we've opened the game recently, both local server and a community server had the items server working. So I'm not sure if it's a Casual specific issue or not.
It's only affecting some users on some servers at some times of the day. I've noticed it since the update on the 8th or 9th. Seemingly completely arbitrary.
I has happened, my dream of a vanilla TF2 sever came true for so little time, yet it gave me hope of popularizing the idea of such a server. (it was fun and I was advocating for an item-less community server for a while)