This started happening occasionally Thursday night, and has gotten worse through this weekend, and it's still happening. One of two things happen in nearly every game I play. Keeping in mind, I've been playing Rivals and Squad Battles, and I think I played one HUT challenge, just to finish my objectives. Most commonly, in the middle of a match, the game will freeze up and when it finally resumes, I'll get a notification that I've lost connection to EA's servers. This happens more frequently (although not exclusively) going into an intermission or if I pause the game. Occasionally, instead of popping up with that lost connection notification, the game will lock up altogether, to a point that it wont even let me close the game or shut down my PS4. It just does nothing, and I end up having to unplug the console while power is still running to it.
I've cycled power off multiple times to both the PS4 and the modem. I use a direct ethernet connection, and I haven't noticed any connection issues with any of my other devices. Speed tests how that I'm getting a solid 88 mbps down/7 mbps up, and a steady 15-22 ping on my wireless devices so it doesn't seem to be an issue with my connection to anything else. As far as the PS4 goes, I can play other games just fine. I can stream Netflix or Youtube just fine with no interruptions, and I'm reading on places like Reddit that a lot of folks are having similar server issues to what I have, and they all started right around the same time. I'm not sure if it's an EA hardware issue or if it's just a spike in playerbase over the holidays that the servers can't keep up with, but I sure do hope it's resolved soon.