Hello there.
First of im not the most experience Last Epoch player, but i thought i print down some of my thoughts of the recent 0.9 patch.
We can start of saying that we are 2 players that loves to play ARPG togheter. We running similiar setups:
Intel i7 13700K
32gb ddr5 ram
Msi 4090 gpu
ASUS RT-AX86S (router)
250mbit network (both on same provider but not in the same house)
Why are i mention this? Since we have huge lag problems ingame since 0.9 released.
New in 0.9 was that u can set prefeered server. Since i live in EU i put it on EU and it shows 12ms.
When i play solo its fine im in EU west with 12 ms. But as soon as we start multiplayer session we are forced into US. My friend allso set the prefered to EU and when he plays solo he is in EU.
This result in huge lag spikes.
If either of us start a monolith the loading screen takes all from 20sec up to 2 min.
But from there it gets worse. Many times the player not putting up the monlith is trying to enter. But cant, instead u staring at the monolith taking damage from mobs in the monolith area.
meanwhile the one putting monolith up cant see a single mob but still takes damage.
Resulting in often loosing the monolith. Glad im not playing hardcore.
If we manage to enter a monolith the lag is insane. takes 2-4 sec to activate a skill and mobs staring at you with 0 hp.
Another thing is when playing multiplayer the loading screens triples or quadrouples.
Its a good game but nothing for me when i cant play multiplayer sadly.