PS5 Native stuttering and freezing every evening

Between around 6pm until a bit around midnight, MST (GMT+8 I believe, Western USA).
Game becomes mostly unplayable. Have had many deaths due to this and haven't been able to level once since. Extremely frustrating.

Am on a hard-wired internet connection on ps5. Internet download speeds show near 1GB/s, and upload >100MB/s.
Trying other online live-service games, such as First Descendant and Destiny have zero connectivity issues, leading me to believe this is an issue on the PoE servers.

From the options screen, I have tried using 5 different gateways, and also tried both networking modes (hybrid and auto). Nothing helps.

Problem goes away after midnight, and I didn't experience this to such a degree prior to the last patch.

Also, minimap gets reset every time I re-enter, even from a Vaal side area. Saw this on the known issues thread, but adding it here because it's super annoying and it's been over a week and still no fix.

Wish your executives would play a league on console. Have a feeling we'd get a MUCH better experience if they did. Game is one of the best of all time, but console, especially currently, is pretty much a garbage experience.

Thanks. PLEASE fix both asap. it's really ruining the game.

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KegMack wrote:

Between around 6pm until a bit around midnight, MST (GMT+8 I believe, Western USA).
Game becomes mostly unplayable. Have had many deaths due to this and haven't been able to level once since. Extremely frustrating.

Same here.
But some miles away.
Central Europe CET, GMT+1
Same issues, game not playable in the evening.
Got freezes and stuttering all the time.
Sometimes some ms, sometimes 10 seconds and you are dead.

And this 10% xp loss hits really hard, if you still trying to make the 100.

EDIT: Btw, PS4 client isnt better in this evening times.
Its on both the same problem.

PS5 is freezing and crashing like crazy this morning. What changed? It's never been like this for me.

Game is literally unplayable in this state. Any kind of juiced content, from a layer of delirium to a ritual to a blight encounter causes the game to freeze for 30 seconds and then crash out or go back to the login screen, not a total game closure