Network issue is back - POE 2 EA game is currently unplayable

+1 to Aussie servers being borderline unplayable. Every second map for me becomes a hard stutterfest that either results in a death or crash once the server decides to speed the gameplay up to catch up. When you factor in the death penalty for xp and losing a map… it’s not great right now.

I was beginning to wonder if it was just me or not. But every time I enter maps, everything goes slow motion. Also in Australia.

same deal, also in Aus. Maps are unplayable

Feels like we're getting ignored on this issue? Been two to three days of this for me...

Same here, Canada(East), getting constant lag spikes since the last patch. There was no issue before the patch but since then the game is fine in the middle of the night but during the day it's unplayable. The Engame area was a Power Point for half the weekend.

I've had this issue since launch. I've tolerated it ever since. I did find a way to relieve this, but it's temporary; Basically, you can teleport out and in the area until it stops and that's what I do-- even in waystones, yes. If I die, logout, teleport out, etc. it could have a chance to cause its networking spike again. I've had instances where I would waste all 6 of my portals on a waystone and it still would happen, and that does suck.

It does make it harder to do end-game content since you only have so many portals. When people keep saying they've updated drivers, change graphics settings, etc. that's not the case, it's 100% a server desync issue as I have done everything you could imagine on my side to try and fix it. I have a wired connection, router is restarted weekly and the game is allowed through the firewall too. Only thing I haven't tried is a VPN and I don't want to pay for one just to play a game.

Again, this has been happening to me (East coast) since the game released in early access. My friends from west coast don't have this issue AS bad as I do but it still exists no matter where you are. At times it has been unplayable and sometimes it would be *okay* enough to where it would happen once every new area I would join, but it has never, ever been alleviated from existence for me.

I would love this to be fixed so I can continue my addiction. The only reason that's keeping me going is that I'm very much enjoying this game.

The devs really need to address it. I've seen so many people talking about latency issues in global the last few days, it's the only recurring issue continuously mentioned.
Had to change DNS to google public, it helped a bit but it's still bad...

Two days ago I was able to play games normally, but when my internet signal was lost for 20 minutes, when I reconnected I couldn't play games. When I entered the game, the server was disconnected. The strange thing is that my internet was working normally, but when I entered the game, my internet had a problem with the signal being lost. It was only this one game. Other games or other things I use are normal, but when I enter this game, it feels like the internet is jumping and sucking

Just want to confirm the issue as described by Abysswalkeer. I'm in Germany, though.

That said, the network issues happened to me twice:
- first time I thought it was a temperature issue with my hardware, as it also wrecked the network controller in windows (went on and off for a minute) and subsequently shut down the whole system with a driver/temp bluescreen in win10 x64
- second time was a few minutes ago - according to HWInfo, no device ran above 55°C - in other words, temp issues are very unlikely. I did close the game immediately and post here.

As a result, I suspect some weird sort of network driver interaction with PoE2. Crash dump available, if anyone's interested.

I'm in the US, connected to the Washington server. I was able to play the game normally for 3-6 hours at a time with no issues, as of the last patch I get disconnected every 3-5 minutes and have random freezes which are sometimes followed by a crash to login.

This needs to be fixed, I've got the graph in my upper right hand corner and my MS is in the 20-50 range but I get random disconnects.

I still managed to kill Count Geonor with 5 disconnects but it's frustrating.