Ever since this game came out, I’ve experience intermittent input delay, usually associated with peak hours vs during the day. I get what feels like 0.5-1 second delay on all my commands in game that would normally be associated with a high ping. It says i have 36ms ping time to the Central US server, and if i do a speed test I’m fine.
I’ve done all listed troubleshooting, I don’t keep an anti-virus active or any kind of cloud syncing while playing. I have the battle net app close on launch as it’s caused problems more recently with the addition of buffering those videos in active game tabs.
My pc specs are above and beyond recommended.
And the main thing that points to it being an issue with HotS is that I don’t experience this type of lag in any other game, Blizzard or otherwise. (Overwatch, Diablo III, Black Ops 4, LoL, Destiny 2) It only happens in HotS, and has on and off since launch, and is the reason I originally quit playing the game a few months after launch, as to try and play ranked with 1 second delay is pretty awful for skillshots. My friend who plays the game as well has noticed the same lag the last few days, and several people in game are experiencing it at the same time I am, though not across the board.
wth is causing this input lag? Am I getting matched with people with high pings and the game is trying to balance it to make it fair? It would be super helpful if there was some kind of in-game latency overlay you could activate like in Overwatch/Black Ops etc so I could at least see what my ping is to the server during these times of latency problems.
I love HotS but I have no reason to play it if it’s going to be laggy 3/4 of the time, when I can go and play a different game that plays just fine.
Exactly the same problem from Paris.
Tried each and every possible thing I read in the numerous threads I found, but in vain. Ana for example is smooth as silk in try mode, but in QM I miss half my shots and generally have a hard time dodging AoE spells.
I WANT to be able to play, because my friends and I kinda love this game but if this continues I won’t be able to keep playing, because it’s so frustrating and I feel like I’m throwing the games for everyone.
I’ve read somewhere a blue ask someone for a MTR, and noticed there were packets that got lost. I mean, ok but… what of it then? What do we need to do to actually fix the problem once we KNOW it?
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