Re: What's the official word on Server Upgrades

There is no server issue with "3 squads in the same area", if you experience FPS drops in these situations, it might be your PC or graphics settings...

Occasionally there is super-slow-mo at the start of game because the server instance is somehow too slow or lagged, but this doesn't happen that often. They are actually doing a great job with server operations given the crazy popularity rise.

The real server problems are in the server code...

1) the horrible advantage it gives to higher ping-players... there needs to be a much lower cap on trusting client-side hit-registration... to make low ping gameplay good, and high ping gameplay operate at a disadvantage instead of an advantage

2) the wastefully high server-to-client bandwidth utilization... 

It's detailed very well in this apex netcode analysis. There are additional comments about removing the high-ping advantage and how overwatch does it.

Here are images that are in the apex netcode analysis video that show the problems... APEX uses almost 8x more download bandwidth than Fortnite and PUBG. (Which have 100 players instead of 60 btw), and APEX longest *and* shortest network delays are horiffic. 250/130 ms for gunfire, compared to PUBG 84/48 and Fortnite 58/38.