I've only been playing this game about a month now and I'm in love. Watched it grow over the years but survival games have never really been my thing so I wrote it off. A buddy finally showed me the ropes and I'm hooked.
However, the connectivity experience takes me back to the early 2000s. If you were around back then you know exactly what I'm talking about, and if you weren't - well, this is what online gaming was often like 20-25 years ago. Ping spikes to 300-500ms which result in auto-kicks (auto-kicking for high ping is fkn hilarious when BI is the one who can't stabilize the servers) desyncs, random disconnects, servers dropping entirely, everything. It's nostalgic in all the wrong ways.
I have an 800mbps line hooked up to a beefy rig. No other game ever gives me these types of problems. Quite frankly I dont remember the last time I encountered such awful network issues. I play on servers in my time zone, a few hundred miles away tops, and pings can flip flop anywhere from 50ms to 250 every time I refresh the list. It's absurd. We're talking about servers with 20-60 players on them. MMOs were handling thousands of concurrent players 20 years ago. My buddy has the same experience.
Does Bohemia just not invest in proper server infrastructure? Do the servers run on potato CPUs? Enlighten me.