The engine ticks every 1/16th of a game second.”. UPDATE: TyaArcade says that “…assuming it’s the same as SC2, it’s 62.5ms. I don’t know what this rate is, but in many lockstep games I’ve read that it’s around 10 fps, or 100ms. The server and the clients run in lockstep, or absolute sync, at an internal “frame rate” for player actions. What this means is that as the game is played, all that is exchanged between game clients and the server are player inputs. HotS is based upon the SC2 engine, and thus uses the deterministic lockstep netcode model common to RTS games (and some MOBAs, in fact).

Seriously though, if this is hurting your game, it’s worth it to read through, isolate the cause, and investigate your options. Try to bear with me, or you can skip through to the TL DR at the end. Ping times are usually over 100ms when this is happening.

This is the stutter that occurs usually when you’re connected to specific servers like ORD1 or US8 (press Ctrl-Alt-F in-game to see the server and your ping times) and is usually accompanied by a flashing Ethernet port symbol in the upper-left. Heroes of the Storm Stuttering Explanation and Fix by Electr0freakįirst, I want to clarify the scenario we’re talking about here.

Heroes of the storm sound files