I got into a game and was able to start playing as of update 49303 without editing any game files.
I've relogged twice, same problem. I'm in South Australia but I have a good internet connection so I don't think that's the problem.
Exactly what king23sun said. It took about 5 minutes to load a game, at which point it stuck at "Waiting for others players to land" even though I...
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