My genius friend had the idea of changing my location, so I changed my xbox console location to United States through the settings menu and I have multiplayer access, the entire United Kingdom is blocked from online and will not connect. We have posted the workaround in LFG but everyone's online profile has been wiped, hard wiped. No unlocks, no currency, no history. I hope it's fixed because we worked incredibly hard for our captain kills badges finding 12 people through LFG (matchmaking doesn't work for captain mode) and then organising two separate groups, reorganising after every game... It was an ordeal and absolutely brutal.
Edit: I can now connect to the servers but everyone's progress is still wiped, gone :'( RIP captain kills badge