almost 3 years ago - sknightly - Direct link
There was an outage just now (just before 7pm PST Fri 3 December) and many players got kicked out of the game and could not reconnect.

We are urgently looking into it and will keep you posted here when the servers are back up.

EDIT: We will post updates in this thread. We have some ideas of what happened and will continue to provide updates here.

UPDATE at 7:28 PM: We may have found the problem... We were rate limited on the Steam Authentication servers. We are working on a fix now!

UPDATE at 7:42 PM: YOU CAN GET IN AGAIN NOW!
You should be able to reconnect and rejoin now!

Our apologies for the inconvenience. The outage lasted about 40 minutes. We will provide a debrief later so we learn from this and avoid it happening to you again.