Launching the game presents an option to select a specific server to connect to. As you can see from the linked image it would seem as though the US East would be the obvious choice, but when the game loads, it becomes obvious that something isn’t right. The actual in-game latency is always worse vs the pre-login loading screen. There is also an inverse issue where the US Central pre-login loading screen shows a much worse latency than the actual in-game latency.
I actually live in the Central US. The distance to the East coast is nearly idental to the West coast. It seems as though the pre-login server selection is improperly displaying the actual latency for which the servers it is supposed to identify as. I have been playing this game since well before online services were available and this issue has persisted the entire time. It was more frustrating before we had the option to manually select the servers.
Please fix this.