I suspect that this may be not entirely due to the game and/or server but it’s gotten so bad that it’s become unplayable, so here goes:
I’m not here to complain about some common lag spike that comes and goes. I’m talking about lag that occurs almost every time I use a skill with some sort of wind up or animation upon using/executing it; every time something dies due to my autos; and just erratically even during normal run/sprint animations. What happens on my end is that the game freezes completely and hangs for half a second or a second accompanied simultaneously by a weird “bzzt” or some kind of buzzing-like sound. I’m suspecting that this is not entirely on servers/game itself because I’ve noticed more minor disruptions of the same kind when playing other games in and outside of steam. Maybe this post really belongs in some kind of technical help thread but I don’t know how to go about troubleshooting. I’ve done windows updates, updated the graphics card drivers, checked that the internet connection is fine, and restarted the system a couple of times already. I have noticed that I’ve been getting broken ipf message again today unlike last couple days and verifying integrity of game cache temporarily alleviated the situation but it was back to same unplayable levels of lag/sound issues within 5 minutes of gameplay.