UPDATE: A Discord dev has reached out to me on Reddit and I have sent the traces to them as well. I'm crossing my fingers that something fruitful can come out of this.
Following this guide to Event Tracing for Windows by a Valve employee, I have gathered enough data to confidently back up the claim that Discord, no matter what your settings are, may cause stutters, at least on a 4 core machine. I can back this up due to having made five event traces where only...
Some heroes have masks below their feet. This is consistent on a per-client basis; I on my client saw it below my feet as Geist or Abrams, but I have it on my face as McGinnis or Haze, but it was different for others in my party.
Everyone, please follow Valve's instructions for capturing stutters so that they can further nail down the issue https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1v8QtbUtGAf6OapE9iWn4Y4STA7Scn_hr1Yih1nf2_BA/