Connection timed out/ Anti-Cheat not working

This is a big issue in the Japan servers. I play with a group of friends and it happens to all of us. It's more stable if we use another region (such as Taiwan). When stuck in the loading, we get put in the screen seen before legend selection, and about a minute later, we are on the dropship with everything frozen. We can rapidly ping around the map and teammates will see it, but we cannot see anything when not properly connected. AV off, reboots, repairs, nothing there fixed it. It only started happening about a week ago.