I've had this game for at least 4 years now and have had very few issues with it. I've sunk money into it and I even left a good review of it last year on Steam. After a year hiatus from it, I decided to redownload and play it again. However, after trying MULTIPLE times to join games, I keep ending up disconnected from the lobby and with the same error message. I've made it to the naming stage 2 times out of the 20+ games I've tried to join, and even in the naming stage, it freezes once the timer hits 0 and disconnects me back to the login screen with the same error message. I've tried redownloading, disconnecting and reconnecting my internet connection, validating Steam files, even trying the browser version, but I keep getting the freezing and the same error. After about 1 minute in the lobby, users will stop joining, the lobby will freeze, I can't type in the chat, and I'll get booted to the login screen. I've even had to use task manager to quit out of the game a few times. I've NEVER had this issue before and it's incredibly frustrating. I attached some screenshots with my issues below. I'm sure I've gotten reported multiple times because of this and I pride myself on not having reports in this game. Please fix this. Thanks.
Let's me type in one sentence, but freezes and will not except more text into chat:
https://i.imgur.com/qv8mzG4.png
Kicks me out of lobby and gives me this error message:
https://i.imgur.com/OTknwut.jpg
Validated Steam files and they are 100% validated:
https://i.imgur.com/mzvWmWD.png