Yes, it is getting a LOT worse. I suggest you send a petition every time it happens, that's what I try and do. Instantly ignore the "please help us to help you by answering these irrelevant questions" email they send you and send a new petition when it happens again.
To fix the last problem you reported, exit the mission then re-enter (if you can be bothered to wait another half hour for the instance to load)
yep sometimes my game is sooooo laggy and get elastic banding, its like the 1 gig memory and beasty gfx card doesnt make a difference!
I have a feeling Union is getting more and more buggy.
More and more often I get server problems: can't enter a missoin (stuck on the generic loading screen), getting kicked off missions, or some crazy lag spikes. I even had a strange bug with a team-mate... we'd both enter the mission, but we could not find each other (as if we were in 2 different instances).
Is it really getting worse, or is it me?