For the past couple weeks both my friend and I have been getting "Connection Failure on startup and when accessing the rift or resting. Everything I could find online were from years ago and suggested it was the servers and it had to be waited out. The online features of the game have worked for me since I bought the game months ago and this problem only just started.

I am just wondering if anyone else is having this issue so I know whether or not there is anything I can do to fix this. I really would like to use my friend's pawn...

The servers seem to be going down more often. I doubt there is anything we can do other than report it.