Steam disconnects = dropped from server

Once a week i sometimes disconnect from steam for a few seconds and it autoreconnects, this does not affect steam games like left4dead where i just carry on playing and dont notice the disconnect in the background, only my friends list is gone but i stay on the server and play just fine, with mnc a message pops up on my screen saying steam is disconnected, i get kicked and have to rejoin the server lossing all my upgrades.

Could the game just ignore any momentary steam disconnects?

definitely would like this fixed.

This needs bumped, because this is a legitimate issue, particularly when there are steam downtimes. The fact that the lack of Steam servers can cause game-wide disconnects is pretty ridiculous, and this kind of dependency needs lessened/removed. This was of particular issue today, where an entire scrim server was dropped during a round, which is just not cool.

Hope to see this changed at least sometime soon.

EDIT: Hopefully I didn't sound too hostile, but I would like to see this addressed. Uber has done an awesome job with the game so far, so I'm already expecting good things ahead.

I agree! We'll look into it.

Ya just experienced this today its rather annoying, and steam was only down for a few seconds.

ARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Was in an amazing game just now, lost steam connection for half a second and dropped from server, game no fun having to rejoin with everybody on maxed out lvl 3 skills