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Biff

Mildly Menacing Medic
I've had similar issues and I tracked mine down to sometimes having to use my Verizon hot spot to play TF2. If I've used up my hot spot data for the month, it'll hang on 2Fort right before it puts me in spectator mode. I don't like to have my VPN (used for business) on because Skial doesn't like it, but with the VPN on, Verizon doesn't drop my packets and everything works fine. With the hot spot on and the VPN off, it takes about 2-3 minutes to finally put me at the class selection screen, which happens mostly just on 2Fort but sometimes on Turbine.

The TF2 client really doesn't do well with packet loss, so I wonder if that's causing anyone else's issues...