Issue Description (Required):
My internet, at its very worst, is awesome. 600mbps down, 150mbps up at its absolute worst. At its best, I’m getting 3gbps both up and down. Dual band fiber to an international trunk. I get 10-15ms latency with LA. Posted a cloudflare screenshot as proof. The point here is that whatever the problem is, it most certainly isn’t coming from my end.
And yet playing psyker is damn near impossible. I’ll be getting peril from 2 seconds ago, usually pushing me past critical and into exploding. It takes 2 seconds for my damage to register, and I get damaged by enemies that I killed 2 seconds ago. Shooting the double barrel? Half the time, it does no damage and it refunds the shots. Using venting shriek? Surprise, 5 dropped inputs in a row and suddenly you explode. Swap weapons? You think you are, until the server decides you didnt and puts your staff back in your hands suddenly, and you shoot at critical peril and explode.
Using any psyker build that rides the edge of exploding is totally untenable, which is lame because those are my favorite builds. Single shot weapons are also untenable, because half the time the server doesn’t even recognize that I shot, so half my shots aren’t doing damage and are being refunded after the fact. Same with reloads. The ONLY VIABLE PLAYSTYLE IS WITH FULL AUTO WEAPONS. While recon or colu- sorry, vraks is incredibly fun, it gets stale being the only viable playstyle because your servers have so much latency that everything else is unplayable.
It feels like everything is server authorative yet the servers are running ancient hardware and ancient cabling and the cpus are running 100 C with the cooling maxed out and massive interconnect latency, so the gameplay on the client side is just getting absolutely shafted. I understand why everything would be server authorative to combat cheating, I get that… but please, upgrade your servers or fix your netcode or whatever it is you all need to do fix this. You have an incredible high-skill game that both my gf and I deeply love playing together, yet we can’t go a match without getting absolutely shafted by lag. It’s incredibly frustrating.
Between buying three copies of darktide and more than a few cosmetics, I think its fair to say I am paying customer who has paid for a product and service, and have spent more than most. If not for pride, or worksmanship, then for a salty customer who is just so tired of switching weapons only for the server to unswitch my weapons, please, I am begging yall: fix your lag issues.
Addendum, just hopped in game real quick to check, the server select on the mission board says I am getting 24-45ms ping with the North America West server.
Attempted Solutions (Optional):
Tried hardline, 6GHz, 5GHz, 2.4GHz connections, and then some.
Platform (Required):
PC - Steam
[PC] PC Specifications (Optional):
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Mobo: Gigabyte B550 UD AC
RAM: 32GB DDR4 (Dual channel 16GB dimms)
GPU: Zotac Geforce RTX 3060Ti, 8GB VRAM
SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
