Problems Connecting to Servers, Server Browser issues

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Hello, I've been playing for the last 2 weeks and I noticed a couple of problems with joining servers, and with the Server Browser.

Trying to join a server has become really painful for me because it means having to deal with dropped connections, time outs, and having to restart the game.
EVERY time I click connect to join a server it will probably fail the first 10 times or so, it usually gives out the "Disconnected: Connection Attempt Failed" error, sometimes I get time outs as well.
Sometimes the game starts to load but fails at some random point, I repeat, at some random point, it's not ALWAYS at radtowns, or Height Map, it varies for some reason. Then I get back to lobby and everything I try to click takes seconds to respond, at this point if I open up the console I can see multiple lines saying "Null Reference Exception", there have been also a few console errors stating missing shaders. This forces me to restart the game because it's so slow, and then repeat the process all over again.
I also try to connect directly using the ip and client.connect, to no avail.
Before you ask I've tried this with no other applications running, there are no firewall/portforwarding problems on my end, and I asked if other people had this issue, I have yet to find someone with the same problem, so it's not an issue with the server I play in.

The server browser is slow, really slow, ideally a server should pop up a few milisecconds after it's been pinged, but I see servers taking seconds to show up, with latencies of ~80ms, but that's not the worst.
Clicking refresh somehow breaks it, no servers show up for a long time, and when they do it's about 5 or so, community ones, when it should be by the hundredths.
There's also missing servers sometimes, they just don't show up even though I know they're online, I have friends of mine connected and I can see it up at playrust.io
I'd also like to understand why an update wipes the favourites.
Supposedly the last update brought some fixes to it, I've seen absolutely no changes whatsoever.
Oh and by the way, the new server filters don't work, empty/full servers still show up regardless of it being toggled.

I understand that I've said "usually", "somehow" and "sometimes" alot, and that that can be frustrating when trying to work out a problem. Welcome to my world.
Apparently this is a minority problem so I imagine that it won't get solved for a long time, and that I probably will get no response here.
This, to me, isn't playable.
When the gateway to actually playing the game requires multiple tries JUST to connect, then you have to deal with missing servers and broken refresh, this is just too frustrating to deal with.

This is not a rant post, I WANT to see this fixed, I love the game and I see potential in it, but these sort of problems really cripple the game to the point where it's just too frustrating to play.
I'm trying to bring attention to these issues seeing as how I couldn't find any other recent threads on steam/reddit/here about it.
If someone would like me to share logs or some such I'd happy to do it, you just have to tell me how.