Tunnelbear VPN working for early play on PC
Same issue happened to me but I vpned into France and it worked fine.
Were you able to stay in? Both of my VPNs had Ubisoft Connect losing a connection and it just hard boots me from the game with no warning as soon as it tries to sync achievements with the cloud in the background.
Change your local time zone on your pc to ehatever NZ or time zone past midnight… try that… otherwise I dont know. I’ve had issues with Nord and Express VPN in the past.