@Geez is the steam connection timeout a connection that the dayz server is attempting to make? or something the client is doing? I assume the server? Is there some configuration we can do to ensure clean connection?

Relevant serverconsole.log entries from both success and failure:

Going to jump on this that this is still a continued issue and one that is causing player retention issues.

Thanks for linking the past ticket. Interesting that they actually attempted to address the issue with 1.20...