JShredz

Can probably try to help shed some light on a few things if that would help!

We use the absolute fastest, highest-grade server hardware available from our cloud provider partners. The math required when you're talking about networking 100 players and replicating the incredible speed of building/destruction so that everyone around you can see what you're doing in game and vice-versa requires a heck of a lot of "horsepower". As ever-faster processors become available in the numbers that allow us to use them globally we're constantly ensuring we're only using the best of the best. To help give you a sense of scale, to support Fortnite we use tens thousands of simultaneous processors spread across the globe in more than two dozen different data centers.

To the question of "why doesn't Epic just build more servers in X location?" The simplest answer is that we don't have the experience building and operating an international network of data centers that our cloud par...

CHAMPION!

Saw the title: Intrigued.

Saw who posted it: "Oh yes."

Incredible detail and execution, this was awesome!

Ok, now this is Epic.

It looks like this match happened last night, and we just pushed a major Xbox performance patch this morning with 8.11 that should help a lot.

Can you do me a favor and test a few matches today and then let me know if you're still seeing issues?

Yep! Stability fixes and performance improvements.

Not quite, the ping going up in the first place with 8.10 was a visual change rather than an actual latency regression. Today's update corrected the visual bug.

Yep! The ping display bug has been resolved with this patch, although as mentioned previously this bug was purely visual. We had an issue in the order-of-operations for the display calculations as a result of the new packet reordering improvements, sorry about that!

We haven't been able to find anything on our end, it appears that some universities are just blocking our traffic. We'll continue to poke as we have the resources available, but no solid theories on our end as to why the game is being blocked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/awagpo/packet_reordering_technical_post/

Client upload volume was affected by frame rate in a bug that was fixed for the 8.0 release.

Your game sends data to the server in little chunks called "packets". Each packet is numbered in the order its sent so the server knows the order to process them. Not all packets get processed and sent through the internet at exactly the same speed, so sometimes a packet will arrive at the game server a little sooner or later than expected.

In the current system, our game servers discard packets that are marked with a lower number but arrive later, so if the server gets packets 1 - 2 - 4 - 3, it assumes 3 was too late to be useful and only processes 1/2/4. While sometimes a late packet is in fact too late to matter, there are cases where a small amount of "jitter" should be allowed when compared to the timescale of how fast the server is processing data, so we're going to implement a system that's tolerant to slight out-of-order packets.

The tl;dr impact is it should hopefully reduce the number of "ghost shots" or similar issues resulting from lost upload packe...

Close! "Current Day" would be more like 1|4|5|6|8, where packets arriving late are discarded.

WE MUST GO DEEPER.

Glad to hear it!

The in-game feedback is actually invaluable since it uploads your client logs. With your account name I can have the team search for your logs and we can take a look.

No promises I'll be able to report back directly, but definitely going to check into this to see if there's anything systemic going wrong!

Account name and ISP? Is it random or does it appear to be triggered by anything? Any packet loss, and if so upload or download?

If it started today, can you try again now? It sounds like it might have been the server issue that started this post, which should be resolved now.

Can you get me some more info to work with? How long as it been happening, is it still happening, what ISP do you have, connection type (wired/wireless), whether you're seeing any upload or download packet loss, platform, account name, etc.?

Still trying to fix what we can and keep things running smoothly. We're not doing active development work, but that doesn't mean we'll close up shop if there are significant issues that need to be fixed.

We're doing our best!