Rubberbanding in multiplayer / can't join a pub game with friends / no player communication / weird AI spawns and balancing

Ok guys, so I fugured my problems with a friend were not because of a bad connection, but his slow FPS. He just stutters in the game world even having a better car that mine. I managed to find a guy on a pub server who had no lag, and we had quite a bit of fun for several hours. Still had to communicate through Origin, having no local chat is just stupid. 

And for you guys arguing about dedicated servers... We could AT LEAST have a menu that allows us to choose a region of the host to play, so that European players dont join in a game with Americans, Asians etc. I'm from Russia, and i played with a French guy just fine without any issue. Still no option to join a game as a party though. I think, if you want to play with other people you should have a lot of friends who play NFS, or just stalk pub games to find guys wanting to play together lol.