I had 2 crashes in 30 hours gameplay. You must've had extremely bad luck.
You on PS5 or PC?

@arkars
Seems odd when you your friend can play and you don't at the same time

@MrNinosan
PS5

@dRanzer
I was asking LoveSpuds.
For your issue, we solved it by joining friends from the friendlist on PS5 instead of trying to start the game.

Worked every time.

@MrNinosan
Playing on PS5 squire. To be fair, since the patch it's been much more stable, I did have one instance where I completed a mission and the credits/XP weren't added to my total and my level displayed as 0 during loading, but otherwise, its all been great after another 8 or so hours. It's bloody brilliant, I haven't been hooked on an online game for the best part of a decade, but thus game just resonates with me for some reason.