Unplayable lag/desyncs since October 7 update

[ibbitz]

For the last few days it's been really hard to get a solid game. But not exactly sure why. My FPS is hovering around 60, my ping hovering around 14ms, and the server CPU never goes above 75%. And yet despite that I'll just have random rubberbanding/desyncs. My character will slide around, get stuck in animations, spin around for no reason, lose inputs, drop off ziplines, etc. I don't have much else running when this happens - Steam, Discord, and 4 Firefox tabs. Would love to have this fixed though, it's making it incredibly difficult to have a meaningfully competitive match.

Below is a quick video of my most recent match, ID 21729028. You can see some of the aforementioned issues in it. I'll try to gather more match IDs as I encounter this.

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[Imago]

Same here, the game was perfectly playable until two or three patches ago.
Now I'm experiencing huge rubberbanding/desyncs every match but with variable intensity. Often it's near unplayable.
This is making the game extremely frustrating to play but at least I am relieved that I'm not the only one encoutering this issue

 

[ibbitz]

Another match ID from earlier: 21511875

Even in the replay you can see that animations are just not working right and that there's some weird rubber banding going on.
However the most eggregious part was around 37:30, where I end up getting launched across the map, presumably due to the networking shenanigans.

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[ibbitz]

Two more for the list: 22164213 & 21983920

The Lash game wasn't as bad, but today's game with M&K was reminiscent of last post. Does not seem to be getting better day-over-day.


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[Noisyeater]

and the best part a 3 hour ban and 4 low priority matches so i guess i wont be enjoying playing for the time being

 

[ibbitz]

and the best part a 3 hour ban and 4 low priority matches so i guess i wont be enjoying playing for the time being

I mean I don't think this is low priority. Pretty sure I haven't done anything reportable, haven't left, and haven't been toxic. AFAIK this is just the servers being crap.


Yet another match ID: 22182851

This was genuinely the worst one yet. I could not move, dash, or aim properly without lag/desyncs/rubberbanding getting in the way. Most of my abilities would just rubberband and make it so I never casted them. I'd immediately fall off ziplines. It was genuinely frustrating getting good shots in/secure farm just for them to be invalidated a second later. This made me want to leave the game prematurely for the first time ever, and made me want to stop playing for the rest of the night.

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Ping was pretty consistently 14ms, Server CPU never went above 45%. Make it make sense.

If this is how games are going to be, please let us at least surrender so we don't have to suffer through it for 40 minutes.

 

[Lyxfex]

Same here

And while my rubberbanding is not as bad as your, i cannot play in those condition. I keep overshpooting my movement or i stay completly still, my abilities canel mid cast and so on.

 

[ibbitz]

My first two Ranked matches ever - this is unacceptable for anything competitive. Match ID: 22891353 & 22896341

I'm worried this isn't even on their radar which sucks because it's ruining an otherwise great experience.
Both games were some of the worst I've seen of this issue.

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[Cherry456ex]

My first two Ranked matches ever - this is unacceptable for anything competitive. Match ID: 22891353 & 22896341

I'm worried this isn't even on their radar which sucks because it's ruining an otherwise great experience.
Both games were some of the worst I've seen of this issue.

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I have been having this exact problem too! It makes everything so hard to do. I am almost sure that this has to be due to the servers on valve's end because I have a good comupter, stable internet, and two seperate modems and routers because I am changing isps. If my internet or isp were the problem then switching would make the difference but it doesent fix the problem. There hasnt been an actual name to call this bug so i call it the red dot of death. I wonder if hosting a custom/private lobby would make a difference.

 

[doolyboozler]

having constant stuttering like every other game, accompanied usually by the red dot in the bottom right also,
I have noticed it is worse during teamfights/a lot going on on the screen, and particularly in the heavy melee animation. I play melee shiv so it tremendously impacts my game, people will be 10 feet from where they were standing after the desync starts. very hard to play.