Re: How does server connection/matchmaking work?

Me and multiple friends all from Australia are having the same issues. Every game we load into we're matched against people from all over the world, ghosting shots, teleporting into objects, lag and stutter when respawning, instantly dying to people whilst we attack three man on one interceptor and all of us doing absolutely no damage. To us this game is unplayable, we absolutely love the gameplay when it works but at this rate the server side hit detection is going to be the death of this game. The developers need to do something ASAP. Several people outside of our region are also having this issue. 

I've tried turning off crossplay but was unable to even find a single match. We've tried changing our download region on steam (doesn't work I don't think) I just wish the developers would give us the ability to choose our region, or the limit of ping in which games we play. Every other star wars EA game seems to have this option but this one. 

Here is a link to a Reddit post on the Squadrons subreddit where others are also having this issue. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsSquadrons/comments/j60lw5/lag_caused_by_bad_matchmaking/