Input lag and lag in general makes the game Near unplayable. (with clips)

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Network & Connectivity Feedback
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Issue Description:

“Near” unplayable game with input lag. Can’t play above Malice without easily being killed. This is not a skill issue as I am a well seasoned (3500 hours) Cata player from V2. I have noticed this issue goes away at non-peak hours. i.e. 05:00 Central time USA. The closer I get to peak hours, the worse this issue gets.

Attempted Solutions:

I’m using Windows default anti-virus and made sure my Firewall isn’t blocking Darktide.

I’ve spoken with my ISP for about 6 hours and gone through 3 modems, updated my ethernet cable from cat6 to cat8, adjusted numerous network adapter settings, changed thread count to various settings, updated my drivers, tried changing my graphics settings, and made sure my gpu isn’t trying to override Darktide’s settings.

I have not tried using a VPN.

Platform:
Steam

PC Specifications:
Windows 10 Pro, I9-13900K, EVGA 3090 FTW 3 hybrid, Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master w/ Elite water cooling, Evo 970 M.2 SSD, Cat8 ethernet cable, Marvell AQtion 10GBASE-T Network Adapter with latest drives, and T-mobile 5g home internet.

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I can only second this.

Region: EU West (Germany).

Platform: Steam

Specs: (not that it matters from what I can tell:)

i7 7700, RTX 3060, 2400 Mhz 16 GB Ram

My issues are not as pronounced as OPs, but still enough to make any attempt at melee-combat a hopeless case of hit-trading. they are similiar in nature. Like OP I have 3000 hours of Vermintide 2 logged as of today with most hours in Cata, modded diffs, high-lvl-weaves etc.
If it gets to a point where someone like me is afraid to actually engage in melee-combat, smth is terribly wrong.

The issue was present since the closed beta for me, though it seems to have gotten significantly worse since release. For most of this time it would be worst during peak-hours, but could still happen outside of it.

Since sometime short before christmas it seems to have gotten successively worse still to a point where right now it is every single match no matter the hour.

I am on a stable cable-connection via ethernet, all speed-tests, package-loss-tests etc return perfectly stable. No issues in other games. I am not on an ipv6-only-connection.

Like many others have said: Server-hardware and/or connection seem to not be able to handle higher difficulties at all. Possibly as soon as multiple instances are hosted on one server?

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I changed my ISP from T-mobile 5g home internet to fiber and it fixed the issue. It seems the signal wasn’t stable/strong enough.

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