[2019] State of OCE servers. Unplayable.

I am a new player to this genre and also game. I really do like the concept of Dauntless, reminds me of destiny but it is not trash!

I am based in NZ and myself and a few others are having nothing but issues. I have been playing since the 13th and it worked great for 2 days and now you can almost never find a hunt. You sit in queue for 10 minutes and it times out or you just end up finding a game with 1 other person if you are lucky. I am not sure why this is, there are plenty of people trying to play, I have a group of 4 and we still spend 6-10 minutes FINDING A SERVER!

If I use a VPN to the USA all of my issues are gone and the game works flawlessly but it runs like absolute trash.

The issue must be OCE server resource. I was keen to get the battle pass rip off thing but now I almost have zero interest as this issue has been on going and is very clear minimal is being done to fix it.
Anyone heard anything from the devs themselves?

Cheers