Escape from Tarkov - Hardcore shooter suffers from a big lag problem in beta

A situation could not be much more frustrating: The opponent shoots us because of connection problems, even though we jump behind cover in good time. Or a fatal shot catches us before we spot the enemy. Especially in a survival shooter like Escape from Tarkov, in which we are punished with the loss of loot for every player death, the technology should not cause any problems.

In the current beta, however, this is anything but the case, as the YouTuber Battle (non) sense discovered in one of his well-known network code analyzes of the hardcore shooter. The video can be found below the message.

Despite a communication rate between client and server that is actually good for a multiplayer shooter, massive lag occurs in the game. The client speaks to the server about 68 times per second, the server in turn sends information at 93 Hertz (for comparison: Battlefield 1 has 60 Hertz for standard servers).

YouTuber Battle (non) sense shows in its graphic the massive delays players have to be prepared for.YouTuber Battle (non) sense shows in its graphic the massive delays players have to be prepared for.

In firefights between two players, the transmission of information can take up to almost a second, the slightest delay was still a whopping 159 milliseconds. Again Battlefield for comparison: In his tests of Battlefield 1, Battle (non) sense only achieved delays between 45 and 72.5 milliseconds.

Wrong server choice, developers react

The server selection also turned out to be crude in the network test: The matchmaking does not automatically look for the fastest server for the player, but bases the server selection on the player's WAN IP address.

Since the Internet provider of Battle (non) sense had just bought addresses from Australia and assigned the YouTuber a corresponding value, Escape from Tarkov suspected the YouTuber in Australia and assigned him servers in Downunder and Asia. After a conversation with the Internet provider, the YouTuber's WAN IP address was changed and the matchmaking was looking for servers in Germany.

For normal players, however, a call to their own Internet service provider should not be necessary, just to get a suitable server assigned to Escape from Tarkov. The developers have already spoken out and promised updates for the beta version of Escape from Tarkov.