[issue] server-side lag is killing the fun

All balancing issues are nothing compared to the frequent (about every 1 to 2s) lags I experience since v0.2.0. This issue alone caused so many death and frustrations that I will not invest my time or spend any Euro until it is fixed.

Information for debugging:

I am located in Germany and have a very 250Mbits connection.
I tried all servers. Yes all. All of them have long ping spikes that blow the scale for a short period of time.
In v0.1 the game used to stop, but now it catches up faster, causing frequent deaths.
I am on PS5.
I restarted the game and the console hundreds of times.
I changed the provider.
The problem persists in v0.2.0e.

Minor update: the game is also sometimes paused for fractions of a second.

It'd help them investigate this if you followed this guide to provide debugging information.

You won't be able to it from your console directly, but that shouldn't matter.

Thank you for replying so quickly.

Unfortunately, I don't have a single windows device at home (only Linux laptops and Android phones).

But I can ensure you that it is PoE2-specific, as the same console does not show this behavior for >10 other games.
Moreover y it used to be better. There were the same problems (micro freeszes with high frequency) in the first week after ES launch, but you guys fixed it. Now they are back on every server

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OverEngineer#3376 wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't have a single windows device at home (only Linux laptops and Android phones).

Then you don’t need WinMTR as Linux has the original MTR application.

❯ mtr -w -r www.pathofexile.com
Start: 2025-04-16T14:50:10+0200
HOST: REDACTED Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192-168-178-1.fritz.box 0.0% 10 1.4 1.6 1.1 3.3 0.6
2.|-- de-str01c-rt02.aorta.net 10.0% 10 16.2 13.2 9.7 26.7 5.5
3.|-- de-str01c-ra03-ae-18-0.aorta.net 10.0% 10 12.7 14.1 12.1 18.8 2.2
4.|-- de-fra01b-rc2-ae-35-0.aorta.net 90.0% 10 14.1 14.1 14.1 14.1 0.0
5.|-- de-bfe18a-rt01-lag-1.aorta.net 10.0% 10 12.3 13.3 12.3 15.5 1.2
6.|-- 162.158.84.8 0.0% 10 13.7 19.1 11.7 54.1 13.3
7.|-- 162.158.84.149 0.0% 10 12.9 14.6 12.1 25.6 4.2
8.|-- 104.16.16.243 0.0% 10 10.8 11.2 10.1 14.3 1.3


This is the output from my laptop within my home WiFi. I hope it helps

Sorry the formatting was screwed. Here is the same output trying the quote formatting

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❯ mtr -w -r www.pathofexile.com
Start: 2025-04-16T14:50:10+0200
HOST: ThinkPad Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192-168-178-1.fritz.box 0.0% 10 1.4 1.6 1.1 3.3 0.6
2.|-- de-str01c-rt02.aorta.net 10.0% 10 16.2 13.2 9.7 26.7 5.5
3.|-- de-str01c-ra03-ae-18-0.aorta.net 10.0% 10 12.7 14.1 12.1 18.8 2.2
4.|-- de-fra01b-rc2-ae-35-0.aorta.net 90.0% 10 14.1 14.1 14.1 14.1 0.0
5.|-- de-bfe18a-rt01-lag-1.aorta.net 10.0% 10 12.3 13.3 12.3 15.5 1.2
6.|-- 162.158.84.8 0.0% 10 13.7 19.1 11.7 54.1 13.3
7.|-- 162.158.84.149 0.0% 10 12.9 14.6 12.1 25.6 4.2
8.|-- 104.16.16.243 0.0% 10 10.8 11.2 10.1 14.3 1.3

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Sarno#0493 wrote:

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OverEngineer#3376 wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't have a single windows device at home (only Linux laptops and Android phones).

Then you don’t need WinMTR as Linux has the original MTR application.

I'm sure you can run poe on lutris. Just download the .exe file and path to it in Lutris

So I'm running it on the PS5 with no customisation whatsoever.

By now, I am sure that this is a server problem and should be fixed by GGG. Even the big streamers complain about it, e.g.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8EUldq6fN8

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OverEngineer#3376 wrote:

By now, I am sure that this is a server problem and should be fixed by GGG. Even the big streamers complain about it, e.g.

Multiple services and games in europe unrelated to GGGG are currently experiencing this exact thing and have been experiencing it for the last ~35 days.

Otherwise the forum would be full of complaints from other regions as well which it isn't.