There are so many existing topics in here about this, earliest dating back to 2022, yet it seems not everyone is experiencing the same issue or have the same cause, so in the end I decided to start a new thread to provide more info for my specific conditions, to avoid lumping things together that are too vague or different, despite all seeing the same generic game message. If your issue is like what I summarize below, please post with replay code and a detailed description of what you observed too.
I’ve had two disconnects so far because of this, once in the previous season, once in this season. Both were in unranked, a few minutes into the start of a match, when I had already worked up a steady pace to keep my team going amd we were on a solid lead.
I was able to find the replay this time, so I’ll post it along with more info to help identify the issue: B5018G 3:55
Here’s what happened in real time from my perspective:
The McCree on their team started Deadeye, I LOS’d him and immediately called up my tree to provide more cover for my team. It was supposed to be a near instant activation, with all necessary movements and key presses fluidity executed all together. This included looking down slightly in anticipation of the placement location. But apparently at around the exact same time as my clicking the left click to place my tree, I got hit by a shot from their Sojourn ult, which for some reason didn’t just hurt my character but also stunned him. I didn’t move after that, was locked in the tree placing animation but repeatedly clicking left click to place did nothing. I recall there seemed to be a stutter lag observed in-game from my end (not visible in replay) that lasted about a second or so, when I got hit while clicking left click for first try to place tree.
Confused about why tree wasn’t activating, I backed up ever so slightly to make sure everything was still working and clicked again, this time finally successfully getting it to activate. But this put me in LOS of the Cree ult I had been dodging, and it killed me. Then a split second later I was sent back to the login screen with a “Client Requested Disconnect” message.