Excessive "pausing" since recent patch.

Hi! I play on PS5 and have had zero issues until this new patch came out this morning. It could be a coincidence, I'm not sure.

The game is totally unplayable. It pauses every 2-3 seconds causing me to play in a sort of "stop motion" and its driving me crazy. I updated the ps5, reset my router, reinstalled the game ect. Nothing helps.

If I just need to hang tight while it gets resolved, that's fine. I get that it's in early access and they're ironing out things. If I need to do something on my end to remedy it tho please lmk.

Thanks! Otherwise been having a great time!

This likely is caused by the automatic gateway selection which is on by default. It's super broken at the moment and possibly connecting you though some far away location rather then the gateway/server closest to you.

To change the gateway you need to exit to the game login screen and open the options. Then under the Game tab near the top is a dropdown where you can change it from Auto to a location near you.

The annoying thing is that it won't let you actually save these new settings. It doesn't seem to recognize a change in gateway as a state it should let you save, so we need to trick it. Go and change some other option such as the cross play one until the save option at the bottom is available. Press square to save, then change that other option back to what it was and save again.

You should now have more stable connections to the instances the game creates and connects you to.

Awesome thank you for a quick response! I did exactly as you said and it fixed it! No more constant pausing! You're the best!! <3

Off to adventuring I go! I appreciate the help so much!