Game stuttering in the middle of fights?
Product: Apex Legends Platform:Sony Playstation 4 Please specify your platform model. Sony PlayStation 4 Slim What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? BenignDirector Please provide your squa...
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This continues to happen. My enemies just bounce around from second to second. It's not my internet.
- @BenignDirector first things first - shutter and lag and enemy model display are usually 3 different yet maybe related issues.
If you are experiencing shutters - like the game jams, freezes and then resumes kind of in faster phase that usually (at least on PC) is CPU issue.
If you see people lagging, there might be a place to discuss probability of them hacking or more precisely using lag-switching, very common for decades tactics in FPS shooters. Or their, your internet after all is just bad.
Finally smoothness of the game, display - indeed I have noticed that Apex is not top dawg in this area, sometimes tracking is very hard just because you can't trust your eyes. More on that https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/servers-netcode-developer-deep-dive?isLocalized=true
Here you can just need to accept that this is how Apex works and how developers choose this game to run.As my post states, I'm playing on PS4. So it's not a PC CPU issue.
The game itself isn't stuttering, my movement and play is smooth, it's the enemies. They will freeze in place and then be in another place the next second. It's something server side that is not catching up with their movements.
Everyone in my games isn't cheating - we're on console, cheating is incredibly rare except with strike packs. And a frequent number of people I encounter? Not likely. It could be THEIR internet, but again I find it unlikely it's so many people.
This isn't how the game works and how it runs - I've played for over a year and didn't have this issue until this collection event patch, home slice.
- @BenignDirector yeah I noticed the PS4 part, just mentioned PC FYI, plus PS4 also has CPU, after all, = Apex imperfection in-game processing might still affect both PC and console players.
Also happy to hear that you do not encounter hackers, full of them in PC diamond lobbies especially given the current situation with Easy-cheat and its (lack) of performance.
Other than that I have been playing a game on PC with the same settings for 2 seasons now and also on EU and NA servers - only issues similar to what you described I encounter rarely (after solving CPU issue on PC, also uncapping FPS lock) and I assume in most cases that is probably lag-switch given players are highly ranked and they would not be able to do that with bad internet.
