Hello from Asia, I'm aware I'm a bit far away from any servers but I have noticed a general decline in connection quality across all servers since the Forging Ahead updates. In the preceding month I've had generally acceptable connection quality to every server except LatAM, but that seems to have changed.

In the past I've had roughly 130ms of ping with the AU server, which was fine, but now I seem to have roughly 210ms at any given time.
Unusually the NA servers were comparable in ping, but they seem to have much more pronounced "lag" effects. Player count does not seem to factor into the changes, at least by my guess.

I must emphasize that I am experiencing these issues after the recent updates, and they are severely impacting the game's playability.

To summarize issues:
- roughly 80ms increase in ping in all regions
- ping seems to further fluctuate up and down an additional 70ms or so every few seconds
- poor positional tracking (sliding around objects and flicking back to a corner, overstepping while walking, visually misaligned hits)
- fast weapons are difficult to use (animations play, inputs are dropped)
- sprites take multiple seconds of command use before they activate abilities
- object interaction actions are often dropped or lost (i.e. picking up statues takes multiple seconds of attempts)
- excessive black screen during loading on AU server (occurs more often, and with greater wait times)

As per this sort of problem, I've done the following things with no resolution: (I do not use VPN for the game client)
- reset network
- checked network drivers
- un-installed, deleted all files, re-installed game and Java

Please let me know if there are any specific actions I can do which may alleviate these problems, otherwise I would simply like to let my experience be known.