Playing this game in OCE sucks

I've always been a fan of the extraction genre, and I also really like games like chivalry and stuff like that, so I thought this game would be perfect for me, and I do love this game. The only problem is being in OCE. being in Australia sucks for gaming. Try booting up csgo and queueing for an Australian lobby, half the players are bots with weird names spamming links in a language I can't understand. Try picking OCE as your server for dark and darker, even better, try playing on automatch. I've getting more douyins and xings then I have people that actually speak my language.

That's if you even get anyone to play with. I queued a game of normals solo, took the first gobby cave elevator, and there was one other guy In the entire lobby who was farming bosses. Its to the point where I can play 10 games in a row, and not see a single player. I already don't have the best internet. (About 60-70ms on the closest server to me) but I tried playing us east. I got matched in 8 seconds which is crazy, and there was actual people in the lobby. I was probably 250 if not 300 ping, so the game was pretty unplayable, with lag and hits taking forever to register, but I saw actual people. In a solo goblin caves lobby there was 4 people that rushed mid at the start, and although I got 2 shot by a barb I actually saw players. I queued a match of OCE after that us game, and nobody again. I took an early goblin caves elevator, and there was only 3 others. I love this game, but I don't think that OCE can sustain the rotating maps, high roller, normals, different queues for different party sizes.

If anyone has any recommendations for servers where there's actual people, with playable ping, that'd be great.