Maybe they use the same Q&A people that Sony used for the Dust514 beta before they let regular players in. Only saw one video before it was pulled because of the NDA, but it was a guy running in circles, jumping a lot and saying over and over again that he didn't have a clue what he was doing. So basically - he didn't even know how to control a first person shooter. Would explain a lot...
And this has been said before, but the network code for HD is clearly shite. EVERYTHING that is or has been a problem with the game has to do with online functionality. Voice-chat, spectator mode, general lag issues, broken leaderboards, spurious records (via spec. mode), wrong ship displayed in leaderboards, NULL_POINTERs instead of player names (That one in particular scares me. Error handling is as basic as it gets. If they can't even get that right...), broken online badges (Fastest Lap, anyone?), and now Cross Play with a whole new can of worms. Now we get to worry about bugs in a DIFFERENT game screwing us over too. Yay.