Still can't start by allies

When selecting teams, you often don't start in the same star / nearby as your allies - so if you do, for example, 3 teams of 3 - often your allies will start together with one enemy elsewhere, and you'll spawn with 3 enemies.

Sins 1 was very like this, but it seems like it should be a setting? Or that it's unintentional behaviour?

You can be surrounded and obliterated seemingly by spawn location chance.