Performance is getting worse

Unbelievable lag spikes and stuttering today, coupled with the game complete crashing on me a few times. Console player.

Was in the middle of a Citadel, the game lags hard, does its usual pausing 200 times thing, boots me back out to title screen. Now the Citadel is lost. "Map failed."

I didn't fail it though - just this games garbage servers and terrible performance.

When they gonna sort this out?

This "punish" the player for failures is a great design concept when everything functions as intended.

It is beyond me why the players are permanently punished for developer oversights and failures.

It's either early access or it's not.

IMO they turn those perma fail mechanics off until the bugs are gone. It has been the reason I stopped both seasons so far, working up to citadels or unique maps. Clear them (Geonor season 1) and the dumb essence unique map season 2, only to wander around endlessly with a bricked map for no fault of my own.

Not to forget "server hic-cups" when you read 30ms... That like stops for a split / seconds and player jumps around.

Don't worry guys, if history is any reflection... In about 5-10 years, everyone will be on 8-16 core machines, with 256gigs of ram, rocking 32 gig video cards, and whoila, POE2 will perform 'reasonably well'.

lol. basically, its gonna take the next gen of computers to simply power through GGG's inability to create optimized content. Shit, i wouldn't be surprised if the servers themselves stutter and hiccup atm.

POE1 had an army of people in the beginning that complained about most of these same performance issues, and eventually, most complaints went away... right around teh time everyone was able to simply overpower the games terribad infrastructure.

Ahh well, it is what it is.

I've been seen so many posts like this recently, with comparisons to poe 1 suffering with the same type of problems to this date

I'm starting to believe that ggg is simply not capable of optimizing their game unfortunately

To think that devs used to make a game like gta 5 run on a f***ing ps3 with 512mb of ram man..