For about two months now, the connection to the game server has been dropping repeatedly. In the middle of a match, you might suddenly find yourself shifted 30–50 meters—forward, backward, or somewhere else entirely. In every third game, shots land everywhere except where you actually aimed. The in-game display shows a ping of 30ms and 0% packet loss (PL), but then, all of a sudden, the ping spikes to as high as 382ms, with packet loss reaching 40%.
One might assume I live in the Australian outback and that my internet connection relies on smoke signals. Well, guess what—NO! I live in Germany and have a 1,000 Mbps cable connection that typically shows a maximum ping of 22ms to a server in Frankfurt. Checking the Gaijin servers via “standard” websites shows an initial ping of 135–140ms; however, subsequent tests show 27ms to Frankfurt and 28ms to Moscow—sometimes even 26ms to Moscow and 35ms to Frankfurt. This really makes you wonder: do I live in Moscow without knowing it? And for the record, my connection works perfectly fine—without any issues—in other games.