Of course annoying when such things dull the own gaming experience. Especially when it comes to mandatory online mode and in contrast to that, they should have made a lot of money with it, if you look e.g. at steamspy :/

(and that the game reloads itself EVERY TIME, just because of a connection failure - i don't even remember an old game that might had to do this - all other games give you the error, trow you back to the serverbrowser and you have to try connect to another server/host instead.
Idk what the reason for a complete reload of the game could even be, it makes no sense to me why it does this - eighter it has established a connection and then starts to load the lobby/map, or it breaks up the process and just stays where it is - i mean, they clearly don't unload the game while in the serverbrowser, so if establishing a connection fails there hasn't anything to be reloaded!)

I'm not even mad that it might fail at times (like a single connection attempt or even to a specific host) - that the internet works most of the time is already a miracle (and ofc the result of pretty good work done by invisible workforce - wich luckily aren't paid badly as usual, at least in germany) - but that it's so prevalent and a constant issue since at least while i own this game - the only difference i noticed was that some updates made it worse to a point it was a constant problem, and now it seems to got a bit less frequently, but still, when it happens it's constant and neighter restarting the game nor my own network can fix it - you as the player just have to live with it when it happens and are forced to eighter singleplayer or play another game!

Well, i have to admit i didn't check what they actually use - i just felt uniquely bad compared to other Unreal Engine 3 (well, now 4 - but that explaines why this issue persisted despite the engine port) games xP

But to be fair, Valve might not be much of a help if it comes to implementing issues - and it kinda puts Ghost Ship Games or even Coffee Stain Studios in a worse light, both could afford their own Servers to manage a P2P game! - especially at that revenue they made with DRG!
Both are not obligated to cheap out on this by using Valves service.

At least they are using Valve's SDR service for multiplayer

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/steamdatagramrelay

I dare to say that there could be some help from Valve when they have problems

the worst thing about it - the game reloads itself EVERY SINGLE TIME - just because it couldn't connect, this is just bad by design!

Will they ever fix Day 1 Bugs like these?