does anyone get a massive lag at the start of this season? my internet connection is good, but when i create a game my ping went up to like 3.5-4k ping…I really don’t know what is going on…it’s been 2 times already
Noticed some rubberbanding, but nothing extremely out of norm.
the latency was a whole three seconds. unplayable. ive never seen a latency value this high. whats the fun of starting a season if the latency is so high its unplayable?
8 attempts to get through cathedral level 3. had to kill the game and re-login. yes internet connection also good.
Not sure if this is related but sometimes I’ll be in a game and perfectly fine, leave, join a public bounty game and the loading screen takes a lot longer then normal. Then, once in the game, it’s lagged to hell and takes forever to do anything. It won’t even let me exit the game it’s so lagged. I have to alt-f4 out, but can re-start the game, go into a solo game and be perfectly fine. Sometimes going into another public game is laggy again, sometimes it’s not.
Maybe it’s just some of their servers that are messed up and it’s just luck of the draw or something 
edit: just to add, when I get into those games if I stay for very long I see other players joining and leaving so I don’t think it’s just happening to me when I’m in them
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Borg is correct. For whatever reason, most T16 public bounties for me are about 60 seconds to join. Once in the game, skills dont work and to leave the game its another 1-2 minutes for it to register. 80% of the bounties were like this and I tried probably 10-15 times with multiple alt-f4 quits. No it’s not my ISP. Literally everything else works fine. Such as youtube, netflix, any other game not made by blizzard.
Just for a reference I’m on the east coast of the US. If I run a speed test to Los Angeles CA 2800 miles away, its 300Mbs upload and download while in a game and several google windows open. Local its its 600/900+. Speeds are what is to be expected. Seems like its a server issue.
If you want to do T16 bounties without the lag.
- Don’t click “join public game”
- Start your own game then open it the public.
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I have had times where the lag was so bad that I decided to exit and restart the game to be able to get back to playing.
I had this the first night, at the time I was playing on Starlink internet, which was working perfectly for everything else. I swapped over to my backup: 8MB DSL Centurylink and it worked fine. However since then its been fine on both.
*shrug
I have had good luck and results playing on Starlink with my games, but when playing Comp in OW, I will swap to the DSL just to be sure I don’t get disconnected. Though its very rare, even on Starlink.
When I join a game and my latency is high (it’s usually 2300-2800ms) I just leave and recreate the game to get it to go back to normal.
The lag makes Public T16 Bounty games completely unplayable. Every 4 out of 5 games I join takes over a minute to connect and then I have to end up immediately quitting because of how bad it is. Im spending more time rerolling games than playing at this point.
What is the issue here?
Well, friday i played on launch time for about 4 hours since launch and didnt had problem.
But saturday was really bad indeed, lot of lags and like the op said, latency sky rocketing and hard time to play.
Idk today, cant play, lets see if by tuesday its fixed
Started getting real lag about 1h ago … tried the old fmodex64.dll trick(s) - no help.
I’m giving up for the day - too irritating.
It’s been fine for me. A small amount of rubberbanding, but I tend to have that happen every season. I haven’t tried joining any public groups though.
It was perfection for the past few days. But tonight the servers are crapping themselves or something. It’s so bad that it’s literally making the game unplayable for me. And that’s just in solo play. It can be far worse in multiplayer.
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1 in every 20~30 games are unplayably lagging from the joining the game.
i have to exist and rejoin, then works fine.
never happened before any seasons.
at least it lags from time time you join the game, it will be really bad if it lags like this in the middle of the HC game.
If you are talking about MP I couldn’t tell you. For SP, I haven’t noticed any other than rubber banding every once and a while at the start of rift/bounty.
im really shocked we dont have a blue at least confirming they know about it… public games are near unplayable atm trying to farm bounties 1 in 5 games causes me 5 min of down time due to server problem
Also noticing this on some T16 public bounty games. Only once have I had it while on private. Other players in the party notice it and leave as well
today was the first day -of the season - I wasn’t getting disconnected every 20 minutes
it’s the laggiest I have seen it ever on consoles. And we’re local saves…it doesn’t make for enjoyable playing imho.