Fluctuating Latency, 50% Chance on Switching Zones

When switching zones, I have roughly a 50% chance of experiencing latency spikes in the new zone. This happens regardless of creating a new instance. I'm sitting here just bouncing between the same Lioneye's and Coast instances, and about 50% of the time the latency graph will be mountainous. In these "bad" zones, the latency fluctuations are accompanied by small freezes in Lockstep mode, and BAD freezes if the latency fluctuations are really high (100-200ms).

The other 50% of the time it's a smooth 34ms. The problem happens across all nearby gateways (Texas, DC, etc.). I'm using AT&T fiber in the southeast US.

Additional notes: I also noticed this issue 2 league starts ago, Affliction I think? I realized halfway through the campaign that I could just re-zone if I got a bad instance until I got a good instance. But I obviously couldn't do that with maps (50% less portals) so I had to stop playing.

Is this a known issue for anyone else?
Last bumped on Aug 4, 2024, 1:43:50 PM
Bump.



Is this ever going to be fixed? It's like flipping a coin whether or not it's going to be a bad night, and whether or not the next instance will be like this.
A few other people, including me, are also experiencing this.

There's no excuse for bad latency if you're on fiber internet, so this is definitely a problem on GGG's end.

Edit: Have you tried Predictive instead of Lockstep? That seems to be good to me so far.
Last edited by Aulyx on Jul 31, 2024, 10:17:36 PM
Hi, have also been encountering this issue, along with my buddies since league start(even before league start, issue exist).

- Singapore Server

- Issue starts at around 8pm @ GMT+8, continuing till about 11PM. (apparently it starts at 1PM as well, will monitor when it stops)

- the jitter/spike is constant throughout the period of 3 hours, tapering off near the end of the mentioned duration.

- Please assist.

Have done a little bit of digging and seems to be routes on Telstra having issues.

Please assist to resolve soon as we do not want to sleep at 8PM but grind gold to pay wages for my workers.

Thank you very much.




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Great post documenting the exact issues I have. It used to be 8:00pm GMT and now it's been 7:30pm this league until 10 or 10:30pm every single night like clockwork. I quit every league because of it. Could you at least please comment on the known problem GGG?
same, created my own thread
issue is active now. please look into it. @9.30PM GMT+08

update : issue subsided @ 10:55PM
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Last edited by DeathzStalkerz on Aug 2, 2024, 10:55:55 AM
Same happening to me but not as severe. All NA realms have been doing this for me too. Half of the instances are 85ms and the other half are around 40-45ms
Same issue here.
In EU, on any of the EU servers (and Washington DC) are an issue after 5PM (GMT+2). I've been playing just fine all day. Come on GGG, this has been an issue since Affliction now.

Regards,

A very disappointed player
had a nice connection for the past 2 hours or so but recently started getting latency spikes, quite annoying. i do play softcore but it is not a way to play



(eu, tried a few servers)

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