In case you don’t visit TeamFortress.com and have chosen to ignore the conveniently placed RSS link at the right, hold onto your privates as Valve have planned a minor downtime for Team Fortress 2. On November 9th, 2010, beginning 1pm PST (10pm CET) — Backpack, Loadouts, Crafting, Mann-co Store and Trading will be unavailable. The downtime will wrap up by 2:30pm PST (11:30pm CET)

The game itself will continue to work. All players will have their default appearance and weapons.

This downtime will be one of many in the upcoming days as Valve has created an official downtime thread for Team Fortress 2. You can access it here, subscribe to it to receive updates regarding planned maintenance.

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