UPDATE #4: Less than a day before I bricked it again.
The game was working beautifully but ever since the CrU update I drop connection on wired Ethernet every few minutes for a split second (not even long enough to get a triangle error), that would cause kick from the server.
Alt tabbed out...
Was able to play a mere 15 hours before I got this issue.
Ran the launcher, it updated the dll (which I thought was strange since it had already updated fairly recently), and now this happens. Also, it re-updates the dll on every launch now, to no avail.
I had a similar issue in the past...