First several times booting up the game; have not been able to play at all. Not sure if this would effect anything.
When I try to join a server, I see the Waiting for host text, followed by a CTD. This has repeated 100% for numerous different servers of varying local times, geographic origin, and population sizes.
I have verified my game cache on steam and all files validated successfully, so that may not be the root of the problem.
This happens to me too, alltho only after connecting the second time (after server restart for example). Also this happens only 70% of the time.
What always happens is the game crashing when exiting.