Narrowing down a problem - off-host lag issue.

It seems to happen when I or one of teammates use the Reegar, at which point I'd scream "don't mess my Reegar up!!!" But the frame rate drops below 10fps. Playing with the same people who have good coonetions.

Me too.  Yesterday I started about 10 matches off host and they were all lagging despite 4 bars on the host.  I dropped out of a few of them right away.  At least one was with a pug host that I've had luck with in the past.

You never can tell with this stuff though.  Too many uncontrollable variables to figure out what the problem is.

Well to quickly answer a few things here.

jadedragonmtr : Definitely a latency issue and not a frame issue brought on by a Reegar. Although when a Reegar does get involved it makes it worse.

@jeremiah12lgeek : I haven't reset my router or modem but that can be something I can try. No other games that I have been playing has been hit with any latency issues, and I have done speedtests to see if I'm taking hits there and it's all normal. Plus when I have been streaming nobody has said anything about problems (drop frames, general choppiness, or constant loading).

Zerfidius : True but I'd rather see what I could be to alleviate the problems so they don't get so bad.

The last patch somehow seemed to rearrange the EA/BW server assignments for the connection. So far, I am no longer connecting to Irish servers. I'm on East Coast and previously, sometimes, I was hooked up there with a bad server ping of over 100 msec. This transformed all matches into extreme lag, even in solo. After the patch, I'm always connecting to where I should, mostly to Virginia, for a very nice ping typically ranging from 9 to 12 msec. So, overall, experience has considerably improved for me. Probably means that somebody else has to suffer. Sorry about that.

You can manually check you server ping just from Resource Monitor. ME3 pinger will also give you reliable server/store ping but normally won't give any pings for host or other players in the lobby.

In-game indicator is less reliable IMO but still works, 3 bars is a nono for me, lag ensures. Sometimes I'm even put into 2 bar lobbies from which I run away. Full bar at 4 is generally quite reliable, probably something under 80-100 msec. Occasional lag spikes are quite possible though. IDK about reegar, but some stuttering is a common problem for many people, it usually clears out without much harm done. link

4 bars exists? Some hosts actually have different numbers of bars?

I'd pretty much decided everyone gets the same icon, since all I've ever seen is 3.

I kinda use that as a guideline but the real way I check is by watching how I load in.  If I don't see my kit character and the host's kit character within two seconds, I leave.  The faster I see the both of us, the better generally the connection is.  However as of late even doing this isn't enough.  I've seen it where I see the both of us within a second and I still lag.  Hosting seems to be the only way I can really fix the issue but then, it may seem, that it's just transferring the problem to those who are now joining me.  Just glad I'm not imagining that this is just me who is suffering with this at the moment.

You are not the only one, I also got it today, cannot play normally neither off host nor on host. I guess, it might be the weekend thing with servers in US overloaded and Europe already gone to bed. Well, better me than somebody in California, at least I get 3 bars, they probably won't get even 2.

Seems like BW/EA has these server issues deliberately to save money. Well, I guess, you can save money but you might lose player base. It is their choice after all and they have made it already by assuming they don't have enough people and there is no need for full capacity. Also, good question for the next twitch session.

Oh you mean I fire a cobra pointblank at a Fiend and it takes zero damage? What lag? All I know is that my ass got grabbed at the end, not a pretty sight.

Hilariously, no. I can only ever get 3 bars as a host (sometimes 2, kek), but I've connected to lobbies with 4-bar hosts.

Doesn't really matter, I get rubberbanding and bouncing off ledges either way. Fun times.

Game was unplayable for me yesterday (Xbox, Northern Ireland) for the most part. Three games in a row, despite restarts of both console and modem. I also got revived into an inner wall on Magma, where I spent two waves plus extraction, priming enemies outside with Annihilation. That was fun, I guess. So much fun I'll probably revert to ME3 for a while until there's another patch.

Been absolutely woeful for me the last few days.
Even worse than usual. (PC, Northern Ireland).

I'm back off to ME3 for a while.
(The games I had earlier were very lag free.

And fun )