Why is player count decreasing?

So i've been thinking on buying this game with a friend of mine. I've read all those positive reviews and this reddit hyping for good fps now etc. Bought the game with a friend of mine. Both of us ended having an extremly long loading screen, basically a freeze ( we can't join up the lobby gun fight even), we start loading when people's are already jumped out. Both of us have like 10-20 fps while flying and upon landing, it gets better after like 10-15 seconds, but still drops from ~100-140 to like 30-40 when we're running openfield/looking different angles. We have different OS versions, different pc rigs, both high end (1080 and 1070 ti's). Some people have exactly the same problems as we do according to steam/forums. I'm extremly dissapointed :<

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