We rolled out our first hotfix this evening, primarily focused on adding better friends support and some first steps in helping with latency issues. Please let us know if you have any issues connecting.
Hotfix notes:
* Players are now placed in lobbies that best match their region based on latency to all available servers
* Servers now available in the Asia/Pacific region
* Steam/Oculus friends will now show up in the social UI
* Can join friends/crew directly from social UI, including their lobby (if there is room in the server)
* Can now start missions in "friends/crew only" mode which will prevent anonymous players from joining that mission
* Can now mute/unmute players
* Ghosting a player now correctly mutes them
* Corrected CPU benchmark which was causing some users to set animation quality too low which would cause additional skating/pops
* Unlocked chapters in the campaign now highlight to better indicate new missions are available
* Added fix for clients attempting to join servers before the region ping tests had completed, which was causing the join attempt to immediately fail
* Fixed issue with UI becoming unresponsive sometimes after failing to connect to a server
* Tuning network saturation limits to improve experience for users with lower upload speeds
* Always allow players to spawn into lobbies regardless of collision, should fix cases of player being stuck in a black screen but still able to hear other players in the lobby