This has been happening to me since yesterday.

I'd start the launcher, log in. press play. Everything is like it normally should work.
Once i get into the game, I choose my character, and press the PLAY button at the top.

Here's where the problems start. After the waiting period, it'd take me to say Orc Shrine. Then i'd load like normal, except after it's loaded, it'd take me to a Loading screen, then the waiting screen again. At first I thought it might just be because the game ended before I could get in. However this process keeps repeating itself. So I am either cursed with extremely rotten luck, or the game just doesn't seem to load me into the appropriate map. It'd take me to Orc Shrine loading screen, then the generic loading screen, then waiting screen, then Hall of our Fathers, then generic again, waiting, Orc Shrine, generic, waiting, Cannibal Stronghold, etc etc. This goes on for about 10 minutes straight after which it eventually gives me the "Connection lost" error message.

I've tried this on all my characters, I get the same result each time, heck I even created a new Zerker and it won't even load into the tutorial (The Rupture). Luckily at The Rupture there's no waiting time, it loads once, generic loading screen, then error.

I've tried restarting my pc, my router, my internet. Disabled my firewall, my antivirus entirely. I've tried everything short of re-installing. However if at all possible, I want to avoid re-installing because of limited bandwidth.

I'd just like to mention that I have played before, not much, but enough to have a lvl 7 Gunner and a lvl 6 Paladin (among with a couple lvl 2 or 3 minor characters).
So this error has only come into effect recently.

What now? What's the next step? What can I do short of re-installing?