battlefield 1 "you have lost connection to EA servers"

I have purchased battlefield 1 on Steam (Windows 10) within the last 12 hours, excited to play multiplayer online with a friend. I played through the intro bit and all went well up until I got to the main menu and "you have lost connection to EA servers" popped up. After retrying to connect a few times, I've searched through many forum pages, many YouTube tutorials and many firewall settings to try and fix the issue. I have reset cache numerous times, I have changed multiple firewall settings (eg disabling "rules" and allowing it on public network , I even at one point entirely disabled firewall in the hopes that it'd at least temporally solve the problem but alas, it didn't), I have validated the files on steam twice and it detects that there's a couple missing/corrupt files, so it patches and all that but when I launch again, it doesn't work. I've followed random tutorials on YouTube changing my DNS and etc. I have no idea what to do to fix the problem and the faq link that the error message says to go to was no help whatsoever, and I'm sure many other's feel the same way. Please help me here.