So has anyone else been experiencing some really weird server stability problems the past few days?
What I have encountered is the following.
Match will start as normal, have a few fights. Might even complete a round if its a multi round mode. When suddenly, Server latency will spike to around 170. Everyone in the server will experience it.
Several players will appear to disconnect. But can still see what we type in chat and we can still see them. The latency will drop to normal. Then the players who “disconnected” will be in an entirely new match but with a shared all match chat. Those who are still in the original match will play through to the end. Then at the end of it will immediately join the new match in progress that the others ended up in with the spike.
I have witnessed this 5 times in the past three days.
I’ve had a quite a few games recently where the match starts and everything is normal. Then 1-2 minutes in the server crashes, but everyone stays in the same lobby and gets transferred to a different server. Same teams, same people, but the match gets reset, on a different map. And all the gameplay from the start is vaporized from existence.
Its usually the first game of my sessions where this happens.
I had a really sweet Sig rock that got lost this way. Would have loved to have seen it again in replay. Pity.
I’ve had some… Sorta lag spikes?
Like for a few seconds everything just kinda breaks and gets all rubber bandy but not?
It’s rare but it really can mess up the game.
Yes, they downgraded us server wise. OW devs don’t care about the competitive nature of the game anymore. They care about skins and collab money. Blizz the only major gaming company with only two servers in their own country. LAS1 is a garbo server from the old LAX and I wouldn’t be surprised if ORD1 is being transitioned to a crappier hub too.