Not just emerald, seems all servers today have been really off. I got a lot more hackusations than usual today. In an hour, I got maybe 5-6 dudes sending tells like 'REPORTED!"; "NICE LAGSWITCH!". Though there were some more understanding dudes: "One of our internets just took a sh*t". Not only is the latency way higher than usual, the spikes are much more frequent and much worse, even in smaller fights. It seems it takes a few seconds each time I re-spawn for the lat to "adjust". Not quite sure how this just appeared overnight, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this (a few others I spoke to in game have the same issue).
What I see: Stuff is fine, hitreg seems solid. Then suddenly I notice someone not moving, or something being off. Suddenly hitreg is zero, no hits. Then for about 1-2 seconds everything catches up. The minimap turns into a flurry of activity as dots quickly scramble around at unnatural speeds. Then it's fine again. Dunno if server issue, or problem on my own network connection. I can tell you as a guy who works in IT supporting all that audio/video being piped to work-from-home folks that the internet is nearly buckling at times. Bad, Bad troubles out there. Seems to have maxed out and is slowly getting better.
could be a mixture of both I guess, although since I've experienced the exact same scenarios I'm leaning towards saying its a server issue.
They just confirmed it on their twitter, it's from their side. https://twitter.com/planetside2/sta...http://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php