Yes we all know the net code sucks, and the server bandwidth is substandard.
But this past week I’ve not been able to last through an entire match without having to reconnect at least once.
Something changed recently, and it wasn’t just the update. It was “OK” until this week.
Attempted Solutions (Optional):
Restart computer, restart router, call ISP and ask about ongoing issues, ping trace to fatshark game servers (Like I can’t pick the damned IP’s out of my Jupiter logs) to find out they are massively delayed on the last leg.
Not much you can do about the internet, except let you know the sniff isn’t worth the grind.
I dont understand why people keep talking about this as if its new. Since the path of redemption update in april on console this game has had consistent daily crashes, fps drops, general lag, and overall terrible performance for more than 3 months straight. This has been a problem on both platforms and if you have been particularly lucky to only have experienced it within the past 7 days well consider yourself lucky because the games barely been playable on console all summer long. It has been like 92 days on console this has been a problem and it also is very apparent that it does not matter what difficulty you play on because yesterday i was playing uprising difficulty just to finish a contract and my fps was non existent all game. It is a massive problem that is beyond unacceptable at this point and its mind boggling to me that its been 3 month with no fix in sight.
It’s the AMD drivers they haven’t been updated or fixed in months. The Xbox one X uses an AMD GPU, that’s why the games stuttering all the time and crashing. I figured this out with a couple pc players who also have AMD GPUs in their pc’s.
These disconnects are actually going to kill this game ontop of all the delays and general quality of each update just not being that good.
I WANT to play darktide but I simply cannot, I get disconnected every game at least once up to 4 times a mission, I crash almost every day straight to desktop. The stability in this game has hit an all time low and its the worst i’ve ever seen. Yes I run mods, yes i’ve tried to keep all my files up to date, and drivers, and mods. I have even disabled mods for a little, bit with marginal success.
I have had 2 friends straight up just say, “Well I wanted to play but I guess I’m playing crashing/disconnect simulator” and “wow I literally cannot even play a mission without crashing/disconnecting so I guess ill go play DRG”
They are refusing to play because of this awful game stability that fatshark doesn’t seem to think to be important enough to fix, we try almost every day to see if the game stability has gotten any better. It hasn’t and we just get frustrated and log off to play something else.
Ever since the Path of Redemption the stability has just gone down and down into almost and unplayable state, First it was like “Oh I’m crashing/disconnecting every 3-4 missions” all the way for 3ish months and then since the Secrets of the Machine God has come out its been truly awful and i’m just done with it until fatshark finally does something about their game stability.
Yes, new content is great but if the experience is ruined due to server issues, then it is all for nothing. Some days i cant play at all due to lag completely ruining the experience. Sometimes i have to activate my ability multiple times for it to go through… this leads to a chain of events that otherwise should never happen, such as poxbursters blowing me up. My character will say the ability voice line and everything, sometimes more than once, but the ability just doesnt go through.
Right now on xbox per my observations the best you can do if you want to play is regular damnation with no modifiers if you dont want to crash. Often times I will lag and lose control of my character but I will eventually stop lagging and gain full control of my character again and of course not crash. Although there are games where i play with 10 different people and might even crash myself. The games basically unplayable but its been this way since path of redemption. I wont dare play a hi intensity or a shock troop mission because you are almost guaranteed to crash in those missions but I also dont find carrying noobs in damnation particularly fun and its rather boring. Id love to keep playing auric and maelstrom but you simply cannot on xbox without constantly crashing. Also sometimes when I crash the game will crash to the xbox dashboard and you have to fully load back up darktide but weirdly enough when you get back to player select screen it remembers the game you crashed from and will often let you reconnect but who knows what chaos you may join back to which makes the crashing problem even worse. I dont really understand how a game can crash to your dashboard and completely close your game but still reconnect you to the lobby you crashed out of but thats for fatshark to figure out.
Just hold tight, I’ve been in contact with the community manager direct messaging back and forth about the laggy, choppy gameplay along with the random crashes for AMD users. And I’ve been told that they have a dev ticket written up, plus like a handful of emails ready to be sent and addressed once the devs are back from vacation in a week or so . But hopefully I’ll get an another response once this problem has been presented to the people who can fix it. And when that happens I’ll be sure to share the link and news.
I play on gamepass, game was completely unplayable for the 2 hours i tried tonight from 2am to 4am EST. Was disconnecting every 15 minutes, over 400ms ingame on East Coast server. I checked my connection 4 times, perfect on my end.
If you look at the link I posted, you’ll see that I’m in direct contact with the community manger about the lag, crashing, and stuttering. As of currently they know that it’s a problem especially on console. And they are truly working on fixing it, but they say it’s gonna take some time. But it should be part of the next hot fix, hopefully. And if not it’ll be part of the itemization update.
I find it a bit insane that by the time this is fixed it may have been 6 months with a virtually unplayable gaming experience. Also I dont mean unplayable as in we cant play the game because ive never stopped but its definitely to the point where i think more than a few people have stopped playing the game because its really not worth playing if youre on console or have anything related to amd. The game is playable but it is simultaneously unbearable and infuriating.
It might be a private link for you, as when I click on it I just get an “Oops - private page or page not found” error. So no, I don’t think we can see your conversation.
If your net code cannot even reliably render WHAT DIRERCTION an NPC is facing, then you’ve done something terribly wrong. Rubber banding, teleportation, these are all well known effects of substandard networking and lag.
But if you can’t even divide 360 by 30 to pass an approximate 15 degree arbitrary facing in ONE BIT, I don’t know what to tell you. (Yes bytes have overhead so it’s 15 not 11.25)
Seriously, it’s like someone there wants to make the game NOT fun. Add this on top of RNGesus crafting and random “Oopsie 12 of every type of elite just spawned”, and it just tips into the abyss of “oh they’re phoning it in”.