Since a few months there seems to be an issue with random ping fluctuations, which happens in any Creative/UEFN map.
You can have 0 ping for x minutes and all of a sudden it goes up to 30-50 ping and stays there, making the game feel sluggish
Other times your game session can start at 30 ping, and stays there for x minutes, and suddenly goes down to 0 ping after x minutes.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Creative
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Stability
Steps to Reproduce
Play any Creative map, even a simple empty one, and check the ping over a period of time, say 30 minutes
Expected Result
Ping should be stable, according to your connection
If I normally have around 0 ping, I should have around 0 ping
Observed Result
Ping randomly changes to a substantially higher number, for no apparent reason, making gameplay feel delayed/sluggish
I’m not saying that it’s an issue with my connection or personal setup, and it’s not map-specific either, but a lot of players, from different countries, are experiencing sudden ping fluctuations specifically in Creative servers for no apparent reason. A game session could start and stay at one’s usual ping (say 0) and feel snappy for 10 minutes, then suddenly increase by +30 ping and feel sluggish and slow. Or the other way around, it could start at a higher ping than usual, then suddenly drop to one’s usual ping after a certain time period. You could even just stand still in a map and observe it happening.
This has been happening for a few months now.
Edit: and with Creative servers I mean when playing published public maps, not Creative mode by Epic which actually does not suffer from this problem
This is not a single user having this issue, and a technical support link to understand latency isn’t going to solve it. I’m seeing posts on reddit of people having the same problem, as am I. Specifically in creative. Please raise some awareness of this, we would greatly appreciate it.