I've been playing this game for around 10 months now and everything was fine until 3 weeks ago, to be more specific during the daredevil event. It started on Monday during the midtown madness, out of nowhere I started getting massive lag. My hero would either totally freeze and not respond while things are happening around or would move and attack without any impact on surroundings, get damaged without anything being around them coz enemies hitting me havent loaded yet, get hit and then have the hits register later, segments of the map missing and take time to load...etc.
I dismissed it the first day but it kept happening, then I noticed some people saying bots are used in the daredevil event so I said may be that's what's affecting the server and me so let's wait it out. Next week, I am still having the issue, servers crash early week so I am like yup when they fix this it'll be good. I kept trying to wait it out and trying to play everyday with the same problem. That latency indicator would show me crazy numbers up to 147k ms!!! 25k-40k have become very normal numbers to my eyes!!!
Despite these crazy numbers disconnects are very infrequent. This crazy latency is there whether I am in patrols or terminals (even if alone) or danger room (alone) or story mode though hubs are fine. Sometimes the first few seconds after leaving the hub are fine then the madness starts. I can usually find an hour or so a day where things arent bad and the game is fine but this is mostly inconsistent. I was hoping yesterdays maintenance and patch would fix this but no so here I am.
Facts:
1-Been playing on the same machine/network for 10 months with no problems. No new programs were installed or configurations changed anywhere before this started
2-Playing other online games fine (diablo 3 - heroes of the storm)
3-tried those test my connection sites to test ping/latency etc, no problem, found a suggestion to do a traceroute but i dont know the ip of marvel heroes servers, if u know it and know the exact steps of tracing route feel free to tell me
4-anti-virus disabled, firewall disabled, no programs running in the background
5-playing on steam if it matters
6-Found someone saying kill the process awesomeium.exe but didnt find any awesomeiums in my task manager, just the game and a webhelper process or 2
7-solutions/suggestions that dont involve uninstalling/reinstalling are much appreciated
8-Dont know who is the dev to tag in this but if u do, kindly tag him