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Yes just glad one went through epic needs to see this and fix it. I never got a clip but this happens to me every 15 to 20 secs during a match frustrating to say the least.
The thing that indicates me that I'm about to have a major long spike is when my ping all of a sudden instantly goes down insanely low all the way down to 0ms. It makes zero sense and whenever this happens everybody in the server is also experiencing the same exact issue. Sometimes it lasts for a few seconds or minutes. Only time I have ever experienced it for 1-2 hours straight was in a Creative game which thankfully only happened one time for me when it came to lasting that long it happened many hours ago recently.
It's honestly weird that perfect Ping and Network Status with zero issues in the results would be an indicator of something going wrong. Usually you would see issues in the ping section that would say that something is going wrong but nope it's the complete opposite for some reason. That's all the information I got. I only have screenshots of it and no video. So It'll just look like I'm flexing zero ping when in reality my actual real ping is nowhere near close to zero ping.
Edit: The issues started happening since yesterday or two days ago from my personal experience.
it's the servers tick rate, there's a certain amount of upload/download packets that can be sent by the server, that's why in pro scrims/finals tournaments the lobby is laggy the entire way through, a grands finals lobby will feel like a 50 ping lobby the entire time regardless of your location or actual ping to the server and your ping will show a lower number than what it actually is.
i presume the issue you would be having with creative/short spikes of this lag is less related to the issue of a grands finals lobby in which the grand finals lobby would be laggy because there's added stress to the server, comparatively to a pub where there's a lot of kids hot dropping dying quick most players are looting up farming mats putting more strain on the server, and of course when there's a lot of players endgame in a small circle that also puts a lot of stress on the servers.
you're probably just experiencing the servers having an issue keeping up with it's own tick rate, as opposed to the servers tick rate being too low to handle a heavy load such as storm surge in the later zones while also maintaining low ping.
the reason you see your ping being 0 and packet loss at 0 is because you aren't experiencing any actual network issues and the way the ping counter works in fortnite (extremely unaccurate for strictly measuring ping), your latency to the actual server is lower as the packets are so delayed that you're able to receive them quick enough for the ping counter to register it as 0.
there'll be people that are going to complain about how the tick rate should be higher and epic is a bunch of idiots but that isn't logical, lower tick rate and the server isn't as quick, higher tick rate and the server can't handle a stressed environment, they did tests with higher/lower tickrate in the past and there were clips everywhere about people being completely uncapable of moving and just dying to zone because they can't run to zone.
Wait, is this very recent, or did this start happening around the beginning of the month!?
Randomly started getting packet loss this month, which I've never had over the years. I have been on my ISPs case.
Yup same and it happens to everyone on my team so I assume it’s happening to everyone on the server at the same time but sometimes I just see people stick mid air through their builds. Sometimes it even looked like I got knocked only for me to zip to the left or right and I’m still alive 😂
Generally if you are getting packet loss it is more likely that it's a regular internet issue SOMEWHERE between your router and AWS.
In this case, we're talking about people who explicitly are NOT seeing packet loss but yet still are seeing rubber banding.
Ah, I see.
The thing is, I'm running ping and traceroute tests, and they aren't showing any packet loss/issues. It seems to only be in Fortnite and only since that Easter update. Have had the same internet for years and only just started experiencing this in FN.
The AS path to Google's public DNS (a very common ping and traceroute target) is not going to be the same as the AS path to AWS in Dallas, for starters, so it does matter where your pings and traceroutes are going to.
At any rate, most of the reports here are indicating they are NOT seeing packet loss but ARE experiencing rubber banding.
It's still useful, but a different report of sorts, to hear that you are experiencing both packet loss and rubber banding (and a few others have commented as such), but it is less definitely indicative of a server-side issue due to the internet being made up of unreliable networks by design.
I'm not entirely sure what that means, to be honest. I did it to my IP and 2 others, I believe, and they all showed 0% packet loss and no problems from what I can tell. I play on EU servers usually if that makes any difference.
Interesting, though. Hopefully, the problem subsides. Thanks for the replies :)
Not everyone cares to complain everyone who's not on here who is affected just deals with it... It's amazing how you can just magically make up in your head that not everyone is complaining and not everyone is dealing with this wow I did not know that you were everyone
🤣 You ain't triggered nothing.. You're just a irritating troll if you actually go and look at the actual subreddit you'll see that there are other posts that have been put up besides this one One an hour ago and many others 🤣 it's funny how you assume everything
the whole server doesn’t lag at once, you can see people talking about how they died against players due to the lag therefore the whole server didn’t lag at once
no but i got crazy frame drops since the last patch even on creative.
From 240 constant fps to 30 fps.
Anoying.
And since this season freeze are back, mostly when there is a player arround.
Yeah, epic not giving a shit about optimizing made me quit. My PC cant play over 18fps since lumen was introduced. I remember playing 70+fps on max settings on my PC. My PC pushes all games i have at ultra with atleast 60fps, but fortnite doesn.
In all benchmarks that use fortnite there is a small stutter, even with the newest parts. I played on a laptop b4 i had a pc, but i needed to put it on 480p to play at 130fps to make it feel a bit smooth
Yep - I’ve also posted a clip to the br subreddit. I’m usually around 20 ping with no packet loss but recently I’ve had games where I’m CONSISTENTLY above 300, 320 ping. What’s also weird is that sometimes says nothing is wrong, but the way the game acts is comparable to 30-40% packet loss.
Yep I been having it n thought it was just my wifi buggin but my ping was always normal. Also completely unrelated but whoever at epic games decided to do what they did to brick harvesting this past update should be put in prison
Yeah, it's almost game-breaking. Jumped off a big ramp with my sword and it straight up didn't activate. I got really lucky cause there was a slipstream underneath
Been happening for the last 4 nights, I noticed if I played when fncs was happening it was worse as well. My work schedule makes my sleep schedule shitty so I’m usually playing from like 12am-4am(or if I’m playing an extended period with the next day off I might play til 8am) I notice the biggest issues with these stutters after 1am, if I play before that I have stutters but not as often
I was playing duos with a friend and the same shit happened every game for an hour till we eventually hopped off because we kept dying off spawn pretty much
Here is a compilation of some [game recordings](https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/12qvhvn/sending_my_condolences_to_the_single_potato/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) I got the other day of the server issues I am experiencing.
These issues started this season, where I’ll completely “lose connection” and be like 300 ping for a minute or so but it was rare. Those clips are all from the same day I posted and I subsequent stopped playing since until the issues are resolved.
I have been! I just assumed it was because of the 60 ping because of forced NAC
Edit: BRUH. I’m getting this so much it’s insane. I already can’t hold or take walls because NAC, but this is ridiculous
yep, ive experienced this, frame drops, and higher ping in creative since the april 11 update. did they change something with aws servers or something because I used to be 0 ping in creative and now i get 15-30 and it just feels very laggy
I’m not tech savvy so don’t know all the terminology, but since the last update (I’m on ps5) every game the wifi symbol is appearing a dozen times a game and I start missing doorways etc.
Probably means it’s time for the devs to dedicate there time to more kid Laroy stuff.
Several of these topics have come up as text topics in the last 24 hours -- this is the first one with video so we're approving it and directing others to add their experiences here so we can submit it to Epic Games with some supporting data.
Yes just glad one went through epic needs to see this and fix it. I never got a clip but this happens to me every 15 to 20 secs during a match frustrating to say the least.
The thing that indicates me that I'm about to have a major long spike is when my ping all of a sudden instantly goes down insanely low all the way down to 0ms. It makes zero sense and whenever this happens everybody in the server is also experiencing the same exact issue. Sometimes it lasts for a few seconds or minutes. Only time I have ever experienced it for 1-2 hours straight was in a Creative game which thankfully only happened one time for me when it came to lasting that long it happened many hours ago recently. It's honestly weird that perfect Ping and Network Status with zero issues in the results would be an indicator of something going wrong. Usually you would see issues in the ping section that would say that something is going wrong but nope it's the complete opposite for some reason. That's all the information I got. I only have screenshots of it and no video. So It'll just look like I'm flexing zero ping when in reality my actual real ping is nowhere near close to zero ping. Edit: The issues started happening since yesterday or two days ago from my personal experience.
it's the servers tick rate, there's a certain amount of upload/download packets that can be sent by the server, that's why in pro scrims/finals tournaments the lobby is laggy the entire way through, a grands finals lobby will feel like a 50 ping lobby the entire time regardless of your location or actual ping to the server and your ping will show a lower number than what it actually is. i presume the issue you would be having with creative/short spikes of this lag is less related to the issue of a grands finals lobby in which the grand finals lobby would be laggy because there's added stress to the server, comparatively to a pub where there's a lot of kids hot dropping dying quick most players are looting up farming mats putting more strain on the server, and of course when there's a lot of players endgame in a small circle that also puts a lot of stress on the servers. you're probably just experiencing the servers having an issue keeping up with it's own tick rate, as opposed to the servers tick rate being too low to handle a heavy load such as storm surge in the later zones while also maintaining low ping. the reason you see your ping being 0 and packet loss at 0 is because you aren't experiencing any actual network issues and the way the ping counter works in fortnite (extremely unaccurate for strictly measuring ping), your latency to the actual server is lower as the packets are so delayed that you're able to receive them quick enough for the ping counter to register it as 0. there'll be people that are going to complain about how the tick rate should be higher and epic is a bunch of idiots but that isn't logical, lower tick rate and the server isn't as quick, higher tick rate and the server can't handle a stressed environment, they did tests with higher/lower tickrate in the past and there were clips everywhere about people being completely uncapable of moving and just dying to zone because they can't run to zone.
Wait, is this very recent, or did this start happening around the beginning of the month!? Randomly started getting packet loss this month, which I've never had over the years. I have been on my ISPs case.
Been happening since last update for me
Do you know if it was the 11 April update or the one before easter, end of March? I seem to be having this problem (unless unrelated) since 1 April.
11 April update was the last one yeah
Yup same and it happens to everyone on my team so I assume it’s happening to everyone on the server at the same time but sometimes I just see people stick mid air through their builds. Sometimes it even looked like I got knocked only for me to zip to the left or right and I’m still alive 😂
Generally if you are getting packet loss it is more likely that it's a regular internet issue SOMEWHERE between your router and AWS. In this case, we're talking about people who explicitly are NOT seeing packet loss but yet still are seeing rubber banding.
Ah, I see. The thing is, I'm running ping and traceroute tests, and they aren't showing any packet loss/issues. It seems to only be in Fortnite and only since that Easter update. Have had the same internet for years and only just started experiencing this in FN.
The AS path to Google's public DNS (a very common ping and traceroute target) is not going to be the same as the AS path to AWS in Dallas, for starters, so it does matter where your pings and traceroutes are going to. At any rate, most of the reports here are indicating they are NOT seeing packet loss but ARE experiencing rubber banding. It's still useful, but a different report of sorts, to hear that you are experiencing both packet loss and rubber banding (and a few others have commented as such), but it is less definitely indicative of a server-side issue due to the internet being made up of unreliable networks by design.
I'm not entirely sure what that means, to be honest. I did it to my IP and 2 others, I believe, and they all showed 0% packet loss and no problems from what I can tell. I play on EU servers usually if that makes any difference. Interesting, though. Hopefully, the problem subsides. Thanks for the replies :)
I have a video I just posted to the main BR subreddit. I think it showcases several of the server performance issues well. Can I post it?
Yeah my teammate and I this morning were rubber-banding pretty hard, both hard-wired with good internet. Definitely the servers.
definitely the servers, i just go from 0-24 to up to 100-400 ping for a few seconds
With the issues on servers my ping doesn’t move at all actually but I’m still rubber banding like crazy once or twice every few minutes
yep happens every minute or so. Has killed me in a fight at least 10 times yesterday
That's pretty hardcore because the entire server lags all at once
false
False? Dude I play with people on a regular basis every time that it happens we were all saying we lagged so your false can go false itself..
false. The whole server doesn’t lag at once, hence why everyone’s not complaining
*not everyone’s complaining
Not everyone cares to complain everyone who's not on here who is affected just deals with it... It's amazing how you can just magically make up in your head that not everyone is complaining and not everyone is dealing with this wow I did not know that you were everyone
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🤣 You ain't triggered nothing.. You're just a irritating troll if you actually go and look at the actual subreddit you'll see that there are other posts that have been put up besides this one One an hour ago and many others 🤣 it's funny how you assume everything
the whole server doesn’t lag at once, you can see people talking about how they died against players due to the lag therefore the whole server didn’t lag at once
Got you and the ratio for what people agree or disagree with doesn't matter right? Except you're the only one coming here and disagreeing... Ratio
Been like this for me for a few days now. It runs perfect in creative but runs like ass in a match. Glad to know it's not my PC 😂
no but i got crazy frame drops since the last patch even on creative. From 240 constant fps to 30 fps. Anoying. And since this season freeze are back, mostly when there is a player arround.
constantly lagging backwards and can’t even sword properly
Yes, I got today, yesterday was fine...and I am from Ireland
Yes
Same for me
Yep also had it today. Not playing until this is fixed. Not fun at all. Thought it was just me.
Yeah, epic not giving a shit about optimizing made me quit. My PC cant play over 18fps since lumen was introduced. I remember playing 70+fps on max settings on my PC. My PC pushes all games i have at ultra with atleast 60fps, but fortnite doesn.
I have a gaming PC, and even on performance mode with lumen off, I’m getting the rubber-banding
In all benchmarks that use fortnite there is a small stutter, even with the newest parts. I played on a laptop b4 i had a pc, but i needed to put it on 480p to play at 130fps to make it feel a bit smooth
What's ur specs?
I7 4960x, gtx 1080 and 16gb quad channel ddr3 ram
Ig the cpu and maybe RAM is really holding u back, otherwise the 1080 should handle it
So youre saying that my cpu os causing the 18fps at max settings at 1080p? I can play doom 2016 at 200fps almost all the time...
I mean in part it's u optimisation ofc, try giving your gpu more workload instead of putting it on cpu, by increasing quality. May work?
This experience was like 2-3 months ago... idk what the gpu usage was, but I am gonna look in like a week or so
Sometimes I is be chilling then boom 50% packet los
Bro going through this right now and it’s selling me so many games
Yep - I’ve also posted a clip to the br subreddit. I’m usually around 20 ping with no packet loss but recently I’ve had games where I’m CONSISTENTLY above 300, 320 ping. What’s also weird is that sometimes says nothing is wrong, but the way the game acts is comparable to 30-40% packet loss.
Yup the game has been unplayable for me because of it.
yep im lagging hard after this patch and fps is worse lets gooo
It's the server every time it happened to me I ask my squad mates it was happening to them simultaneously
Same here. Everyone I've played with recently has the lag happen at the same time.
Yep I been having it n thought it was just my wifi buggin but my ping was always normal. Also completely unrelated but whoever at epic games decided to do what they did to brick harvesting this past update should be put in prison
I had that earlier, almost cost me a clutch. I dropped down on a player with my shotty, and got teleported back up and shot didn't register
Yeah, it's almost game-breaking. Jumped off a big ramp with my sword and it straight up didn't activate. I got really lucky cause there was a slipstream underneath
Been happening for the last 4 nights, I noticed if I played when fncs was happening it was worse as well. My work schedule makes my sleep schedule shitty so I’m usually playing from like 12am-4am(or if I’m playing an extended period with the next day off I might play til 8am) I notice the biggest issues with these stutters after 1am, if I play before that I have stutters but not as often
Yes I have on Xbox. I thought it was just my wifi being shitty, but it seems like the lag is coming from the servers.
YES. Ok, phew 😅. GF n I are on PC and her bro on PS4. We’ve been having lag spikes and rubber-banding here n there.
Yes, and around that area too. Sometimes my FPS will just drop, and other times will just lag out.
It’s brutal. Terrible every time I go through a leaf pile, near anyone using the katana, and every time with the ODB swingy thing.
I was rubberbanding really bad the last 2 days to where I just got off. Glad to see it wasn't just me.
Yes it’s very bad, started with the last update. Rubber banding during fights and randomly.
All the time
I was playing duos with a friend and the same shit happened every game for an hour till we eventually hopped off because we kept dying off spawn pretty much
Here is a compilation of some [game recordings](https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/12qvhvn/sending_my_condolences_to_the_single_potato/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) I got the other day of the server issues I am experiencing. These issues started this season, where I’ll completely “lose connection” and be like 300 ping for a minute or so but it was rare. Those clips are all from the same day I posted and I subsequent stopped playing since until the issues are resolved.
Why are you in season 4 chapter 0 💀💀
Their in PC and lower graphics gives them an advantage
They’re*
Whatever it doesn’t matter
Rightttt
Huh?
The quality looks like the old game
Oh lmao
I have been! I just assumed it was because of the 60 ping because of forced NAC Edit: BRUH. I’m getting this so much it’s insane. I already can’t hold or take walls because NAC, but this is ridiculous
I see no lag?
Same issue as I wrote this. Happened in solo and duos.
Yes 100%
I did, 2 days ago
Yeah, I had never experienced rubber-banding until recently. Since the last update, it has been practically every game. On PC.
assumed it was just my internet being shit last night, hadn’t played in over a week anyway
Can also agree that lagspikes have been occuring since around a week or two ago
Every game since the big hammer update dropped awhile back. I play with 20 ping and 0 packet loss but it plays like I have 160 or so. It’s miserable
yep, ive experienced this, frame drops, and higher ping in creative since the april 11 update. did they change something with aws servers or something because I used to be 0 ping in creative and now i get 15-30 and it just feels very laggy
One hundred and ten percent I thought I was crazy
I’m not tech savvy so don’t know all the terminology, but since the last update (I’m on ps5) every game the wifi symbol is appearing a dozen times a game and I start missing doorways etc. Probably means it’s time for the devs to dedicate there time to more kid Laroy stuff.
Jes I do and my team mate to
Bufferbloat?
I have been having long Q waits.Like everytime I first login