• Editing local config files to change in-game appearance is against terms of service and bannable (uncapping FPS, limiting FPS, or changing font region are the only allowed changes)
  
• Teaming is bannable. This includes not killing your friends in queue snipes while killing others. Play normal.

• Ability tooltips may not have correct stats. This will be fixed in patch 7. If in doubt, check this document: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/realmstats
  
• Dragon’s Peak and Captain’s Folly have known collision issues
  
• The bridge between Crossing and Dragon’s Peak is not on the minimap

• This map has replaced the old map
  
• The old map will be available intermittently through LTMs only
  
• Unique new features and easter eggs through the map

• This queue has no bots
  
• The queue has a longer timer, so it may take up to 10 minutes to “pop” to ensure the lobbies are busy and competitive

• Ancient items have been added! These ultra rare and powerful items drop 0-2 times per map in ancient chests that take 10 seconds to open. They can also drop very rarely from Zeppelin Chests and Goblins.

• The Event System has been added to the new map
  
• The events have been tweaked to be BR specific.
  
• Power of the Ancients: Drops two ancient and many zeppelin chests
  
• Adrenaline Rush: Move 50% faster with 300% increased jump height
  
• Giddy Up Buttercup: 40% faster mount speed
  
• Big Bad Bounty: Team with top kills is highlighted for all teams. If they survive the timer, a zeppelin chest will spawn on each player of that team. If they are killed, a chest spawns on their body. Players killed during event will respawn if at least one player on the team survives.
  
• Forge Fire Sale: 50% forge discount and faster forge speed
  
• Deep Pockets: Killed players drop two shard packs instead of one

• Shard economy adjusted for new map size and loot density. Kills from 50 shards->80 shards, and items from 5/10/20/40 to 3/6/15/30
  
• Forge times reduced by 5 seconds
  
• Killing players will drop a chicken nugget that can be picked up to heal armor and health
  
• Dev Note: This is to help teams that win engagements then get third partied before being able to heal
  
• Number of players required to start a custom game lowered from 12 to 6
  
• Realm Wars mercy rule changed from 30 to 20
  
• Realm Wars spawn protection duration from 7s to 10s and shield from 2000 to 2500

• Betty Grenade Launcher
  
• Damage from 400/500/650 to 480/600/720
  
• Healing from 80/120/160 to 110/160/220
  
• Fire Grenade
  
• Damage from 30/40/50/60 per tick to 30/45/60/75 per tick

• Proximity Trap
  
• Slow from 1.5/2.0/2.5/3.0s to 1.5/1.6/1.8/2.0s

• Damage from 310/360/410 to 300/350/400
  
• Smoke Screen
  
• Smoke duration from 4.0s to 3.0s
  
• Returned Ability: Ghost Walk
  
• Dev Note: In Patch 6 this will only be available in chests. We are working on adding this into the forge and loadout menus for patch 7.

• Blizzard
  
• Movespeed from 40% to 25/30/40/50
  
• Increase the travel speed of the blizzard by ~20%

• Heroic Leap
  
• Damage from 150/200/250/300 to 150/200/300/400
  
• Enrage
  
• Lifesteal from 25/25/25/25 to 20/25/30/35
  
• Damage from 5% to 5/5/7/10
  
• Shielding Shout
  
• Shield from 200/300/400/500 to 300/360/480/600
  
• Longsword
  
• Now grants 10% move speed while equipped and active
  
• Aim Down Sights replaced by a Hook on a 12s cooldown
  
• Damage from 820/930/1040 to 580/650/720
  
• Refire rate from 0.9 to 0.68
  
• Throwing Axe
  
• Projectile speed from 415 to 510

• Hand Cannon
  
• Projectile speed from 800 to 1000
  
• Postfire delay from 0.7 to 0.64
  
• Damage from 480/520/580/640 to 420/480/540/600
  
• Zoom FOV from 50 to 60 (to reduce smoke trail blocking camera)
  
• Shotgun
  
• Postfire delay from 1.0 to 0.9
  
• Gatekeeper
  
• Zoom FOV from 50 to 60
  
• Auto Sniper (changes to make it feel more “DMR”-like)
  
• Zoom FOV from 45 to 60 (doesn’t zoom in as far)
  
• Hipfire accuracy slightly increased
  
• Scope-in time from 0.3 to 0.1 (to match regular ads weapons)
  
• Assault Rifle
  
• Reload from 2.5 to 2.0
  
• Equip time from 0.6 to 0.9
  
• Ammo from 25 to 30
  
• Burst Rifle
  
• Ammo from 21 to 24
  
• SMG
  
• Damage from 75/80/90/100 to 75/80/95/110
  
• Reload from 2.2 to 1.8
  
• Equip time from 0.6 to 0.8
  
• Lightfoot potion
  
• Duration from 3/3/3/3 to 3/3.5/4/5
  
• Healing Station
  
• Cooldown from 26/24/22/20 to 22/21/19/17
  
• Barricade
  
• Health from 1600/1600 to 1600/2000
  
• Breastplate
  
• Health/Armor Regen from 2/5/10 to 2/10/20
  
• Helm
  
• Cooldown Reduction % from 10/20/30 to 5/10/20

• Editing local config files to change in-game appearance is against terms of service and bannable (uncapping FPS, limiting FPS, or changing font region are the only allowed changes)
  
• Macros used to provide in-game advantages are bannable
  
• Teaming is bannable. This includes not killing your friends in queue snipes while killing others. Play normal.

Dev note: We receive many reports from people that aren’t participating in the queues that send reports players are teaming (not killing others, while killing them). These frequent reports are the reason we had to make this decision. We have the intention of adding “customizable customs” in a future patch that may allow a lower minimum number of players and enable bots to give a place for these types of games.

• To be announced at Live release

• You now respawn with full health and armor
  
• 
• Respawn time increased from 5 to 6 seconds
  
• Spawn Protection added - you spawn with a 2000hp shield and crowd control immunity for 6 seconds: https://streamable.com/68hb2e
  
  • Note: This includes your own CC effects like self-concussion grenade and blizzard movespeed

• Jump Pads – there are now 3 jump pads around the island – at both towers and the multi-story horde house
  
• 

Spawn A moved inside dragon skull

Spawn B moved to new temple

Spawn A line of sights blocked

Spawn B moved from barn to new docks

• Duration: 40 seconds
  
• During this event any chicken that dies will explode, dealing 600 damage causing a knockback effect sending any enemy near them flying backward, so be careful getting too close!
  
• https://streamable.com/6xsvu2

• Duration: 40 seconds
  
• This event has a 50% chance to “proc” if a team is down by 15 or more points.
  
• For 40 seconds the winning team top 3 players with the most kills are revealed to the whole losing team and are worth 3 EXTRA bonus points when dying.

• Duration: 40 seconds
  
• During this event everyone on the map will be revealed to each other for 40 seconds.
  
• https://streamable.com/47kvmo

• Summon a slow moving Blizzard in a direction that slows and damages enemies along the way. Increases your movement speed by 40% while inside it, and deals small amounts of damage that slows enemies by 35%.
  
• https://streamable.com/47kvmo

• Shock Rifle Postfire delay from 0.8s to 0.9s

• Editing local config files to change in-game appearance is against terms of service and bannable (uncapping FPS, limiting FPS, or changing font region are the only allowed changes)
  
• Macros used to provide in-game advantages are bannable
  
• Teaming is bannable. This includes not killing your friends in queue snipes while killing others. Play normal.

Dev note: We receive many reports from people that aren’t participating in the queues that send reports players are teaming (not killing others, while killing them). These frequent reports are the reason we had to make this decision. We have the intention of adding “customizable customs” in a future patch that may allow a lower minimum number of players and enable bots to give a place for these types of games.

• The team with the most kills at 15 minutes will win (the right side of the screen shows your team's kills in blue, and enemy teams kills in red)
  
  • If a team is up by 40 kills or more after 5 minutes, then it will end early
• You will passively gain 20 shards every 5 seconds. Use these to forge between respawns and upgrade your loot.
  
• Forge times have been drastically reduced to 1 second.
  
• Armor is always forged at legendary levels.
  
• Events will randomly happen throughout the match, be ready for anything when you hear the foghorn!
  
  • Forge fire sale!
    
  • Rising Tides!
    
  • Adrenaline Rush!
    
  • Hard Dive!
    
  • Loot fiesta!

• Chests fixed to be multi-lootable again (single lootable was a bug / never intended)
  
• Primary cause of Hunter T-Pose fixed -- monitoring to see if there are additional causes
  
• Armor regen after revive will work normally
  
• Animation canceling on PC by tapping equipped weapon key fixed

• Fog damage reduced
  
• Healing station is droppable after 1s of use
  
• Shard count in a stack added to UI
  
• Potion count in a stack added to UI
  
• 
• API: Now tracks player kills separate from bot kills
  
• API: Now tracks damage to armor in the damage stat (previously only hp was tracked)

• Revolver reworked into new "Hand Cannon". Harder hitting, slower firing, and projectile based instead of hit scan. Optimal in close range but has high damage falloff and has limited use in long range fights.
  
• Auto Sniper reworked into a DMR-style weapon. Fast firing scoped weapon with lower damage and higher ammo. https://streamable.com/k45c51

• Rocket dash and Thrust cooldown from 14/13/12/11 to 15/14/13/12
  
• Deploy Turret cooldown from 16/15/13/12 to 16/15/14/13, duration from 12 to 13s
  
• Betty's Grenade Launcher heal from 80/100/120 to 80/120/180

• Decoy invis time from 2s to 1.5s
  
• Sniper rifle zoom time from 0.25 to 0.28
  
• Sniper rifle now has a 0.4s "grace window" for reload to complete if an ability is used while reloading

• Javelin projectile size lowered, damage curve adjusted from 20/120 to 20/150
  
• Heroic leap cooldown from 17/16/15/14 to 16/15/14/13
  
• Charge forward movement stops on impact with player

• Ice Staff projectile speed from 2000 to 1900, and damage from 205/250/300 to 200/240/280
  
• Fireball cooldown from 17/14/12/11 to 15/14/13/12

• Map updates -- minor tweaks and adjustments to many areas around the map to make for healthier end zones and better fights. Check out Fungal, Jaguar, Goblin Gulch, Trinity Hills, and many more for the updates! There are also many easter eggs that have been hidden around the map!
  
• Chicken Health reduced from 1300 to 1200

• Battle Pass Season 6: Deep Sea Bytes. Make a splash and earn new mysterious deep sea creatures with 50 action packed levels!
  
• Engineer skins: Old School Engineer, Quinton, Forgefire Knight (previously warrior skin), and Sprocket (playstation exclusive, previously warrior skin)
  
• New promotional-only mount and chicken: stay tuned to tournaments and other events for a chance to win and more info.

• Gatekeeper accuracy lowered
  
• Burst Rifle ammo reduced from 27 to 21, reload time decreased from 2.6s to 2.4s
  
• Slug Rifle damage increased from 365/405/445/485 to 370/410/450/490, and accuracy slightly increased
  
• Revolver ADS accuracy slightly lowered, damage from 360/400/440/480 to 360/390/420/450
  
• Auto Sniper ammo increased from 3 to 4
  
• Plasma Launcher, Turret, and Fire Bomb Removed

• Primary fire: Damage 450/600/700 hard hitting perfect accuracy lightning gun
  
• Secondary ADS Fire: 650/750/850 slower speed and fire rate lightning orb that explodes when it hits an enemy with an additional 98 AoE shock damage.

• Primary fire: Explosive grenade dealing 400/500/650 damage
  
• Secondary ADS Fire: Healing grenade explodes healing for 100/150/150 in AoE

• Postfire Delay: 0.30s -> 0.35s
  
• FOV: 50 -> 60
  
• Damage: 220/270/315 -> 250/310/360
  
• Headshot Multiplier: 45%
  
• Damage Amplification: Applies stack on hit, lasts 2.5s, stacks 3% per hit up to 9%

• Draw time 1.2s -> 1.1s
  
• Post-fire delay 0.8s -> 0.5s
  
• Projectile speed 900 -> 980
  
• Damage 620/830/960 -> 660/850/980
  
• Damage increase over range changed from 30m/140m to 20m/110m

• Base Damage: 620/830/960
  
• Range based damage increase: Begins increasing in damage after 30m, and reaches the maximum 50% increase at 140m. Damage bonus curve is exponential to minimize the increase in shorter range fights.
  
• Projectile Speed: 900
  
• Full Draw Time: 1.2s

• Decreased Movement speed by 12%
  
• Decreased Health by 15%

• The Common version of this item has been removed from your first pull out of a chest
  
• Increased Damage from 560/640/720/800 ➡️ 580/660/740/820
  
• Decreased Refire rate from 1.2 ➡️ 1.1

• Decreased Pre fire from .2s ➡️ .1s
  
• Increased Effect radius from 27.5 ➡️ 40
  
• Changed Cooldown from 22/21/20/19 ➡️ 23//22/20/18

• Decreased Prefire from .2s ➡️ .1s
  
• Increased Effect radius from 27.5 ➡️ 40

• Normalized Movespeed to 25%

• Increased cooldown from 13/12/11/9 ➡️ 13.5/12.5/11.5/9.5

• Increased damage across rarities by 25
  
• Decreased cooldown across all rarities by 1s.

• Bug Fix: Legendary Enrage corrected to be 25% (was 30% in-game)
  
• Decreased Enrage Life steal 30 ➡️ 25%

• Damage now starts at 150 and scales to 300 at Legendary.
  
• Decreased Leap damage radius from 20 ➡️ 16.666

• Decreased hitbox slightly.

• Increased Hitbox to match the size of the fireball
  
• Decreased Prefire rate from .2s ➡️ .1s

• Increased projectile speed by 50
  
• Decreased radius by 50%

• Increased ammo from 6 ➡️ 7
  
• Reduced Slow from 20% ➡️ 17%

• Reload speed increased 1.2➡️1.3
  
• Crossbow ammo increased 10➡️12

• Improved accuracy of this Weapon
  
• Decreased damage by 30

• Bug fix: Accuracy normalized across all rarities

• Heroic Leap
  
  • Leap an incredible height and distance

• NEW - Grapple Hook
  
  • Throw a grapple hook to sling yourself through the air

• Soar
  
  • Fly through the air

• Blink
  
  • Teleport forward a short distance

• Throwing Axe
  
• Long Sword

• Longbow
  
• Crossbow

• NEW - Fire Staff
  
• NEW - Ice Staff

• Sniper Rifle
  
• Heirloom Rifle

• Lightfoot Potion
  
  • Throw a flask that increases mobility and jump height

• Assassin - Decoy
  
  • Spawn a clone that shoots and gain brief invisibility
• Warrior - Enrage
  
  • Go Berserk with superhuman strength gaining increased Attack Speed, Life Steal, and damage dealt
• Mage - Fireball
  
  • Cast a blazing damaging fireball at your enemy

• Auto Sniper Rifle
  
  • A long range semi Auto Sniper Rifle capable of scoping.

• Mage - Fire Staff
  
  • Hurls fireballs at your target dealing aoe damage.
• Mage - Ice Staff
  
  • Shoots Icicle projectiles dealing damage and slowing your target by 20%

• More players per match - 60 players plus NPCs
  
• Better balanced gameplay that tracks with what the competitive scene is participating in
  
• LTMs that don’t interrupt the normal matchmaking queues. Currently, we have to disable a queue if we want to turn on an LTM, which is not ideal.

• The Talent system has been removed. We know that players enjoy customizing their class outside of the game and our team is looking at ways to bring that back in an exciting way. Check back for updates on this soon!
  
• The loadout system will remain in Realm Royale Reforged! Players can use the loadout section to guarantee their class weapon and abilities from their class forge in-game
  
• Legendary weapons may only be forged, taken from goblins, or found in Zeppelin Chests.
  
• Many Abilities have been re-tuned and given additional effects.
  
• You can find the stats of all weapons, cooldowns, and armor here[docs.google.com]!

• OG Warrior Skin
  
• OG Hunter Skin
  
• OG Mage Skin
  
• OG Assassin Skin
  
• OG Chicken Skin
  
• OG Warrior Avatar
  
• OG Hunter Avatar
  
• OG Mage Avatar
  
• OG Assassin Avatar
  
• OG Loading Screen
  
• Wipe the Floor Spray

• Phoenix Chicken Skin
  
• Phoenix Skydive Skin
  
• Realm Champions Loading Screen
  
• Realm is Bok Baby! Loading Screen
  
• Don’t Look Back Loading Screen
  
• 4 Cosmetic Items by Pandreem
  
  • I’m Bok Avatar
    
  • Hearts Ablaze Avatar
    
  • Fired Up Spray
    
  • Down in Flames Spray

• In character select, if your character is invisible: Please go to character loadout and select default skin.
  
• Crafting armor can sometimes craft the wrong piece or a duplicate.
  
• Crafting a weapon/ability can craft a lower rarity than equipped
  
• Firing the grapple hook and shooting has a chance to dryfire the grapple hook causing it to go on cooldown but not be activated.
  
• Sounds of enemies may be lower than intended.
  
• The longbow will sometimes shoot a wayward arrow in a direction you are not aiming.
  
• Players can drop into an invisible wall north of North Port, causing them to be forced into the water.
  
• Multiple conditions can cause a player to get locked into the incorrect animation, such as T-posing, lying flat in the ground, or standing inside their mount. To avoid getting the permanent crouch bug, avoid landing on your teammates for the time being.
  
• Fortification does not shield the player fully from the front and some actions can be taken without canceling the shield.
  
• The Tutorial has been temporarily disabled

• A rotating event that mixes and Matches various rules to create entirely new ways to play Realm every week.
• Some events can focus the circle on specific parts of the map to create a more focused play experience or even move around the map in strange ways
• Events have the ability to limit weapons or abilities to a specific type, giving players a more even playing field or encourage an unusual play style

• The Forge has TABS! Players can switch between Class Abilities, Neutral Abilities, and the Upgrade tab!
• Every player gets to upgrade one item per forge
• Common and Rare items upgrade to Epic and Epic items upgrade to Legendary
• The Shard cap has been increased from 200 > 300

• Fortification
  • A magical shield that blocks incoming damage - the player can’t fire or use other abilities while Fortification is active.
• Grounding Shock
  • Knock enemies into the air and then pull them back down to the ground with Ground Shock.

• Players will receive Crowns every day for their Login Bonus as well as finishing their daily quests!

• The store will now customize a list of five random items each day for every player

• The Fallen Assassin
• Corrupted Crimson Mount
• Lil Devil Chicken Skin

• This area of the map has been redesigned to provide more interesting fights for players.

• Players can no longer land on top of the Forge mushroom.

• Heirloom Rifle:
  • Damage increased
    • 340 > 370 (EPIC)
    • 370 > 400 (Legendary)
  • Post Fire : 0.4 > 0.7
  • Clip size decreased from 10 > 8
• Sniper Rifle:
  • Projectile Size has been reduced

• Longbow:
  • Damage Changes
    • Epic - 680 > 700
    • Legendary - 750 > 730
• Crossbow:
  • Damage Changes
    • Epic - 360 > 300
    • Legendary - 390 > 340
• Arbalest:
  • DMG changes
    • Legendary - 650 > 800
    • Ammo - 6 > 8
• Stone Staff
  • DMG Changes
    • Epic - 225 > 250
    • Legendary - 250 > 280
• Slug Rifle
  • DMG Changes
    • Common - 430 > 380
    • Rare - 470 > 420
    • Epic - 510 > 470
    • Legendary - 550 > 500
• Throwing Axe
  • DMG Changes
    • Epic - 725 > 800
    • Legendary - 800 > 875
    • Projectile Speed - 550 > 600

• Bolt Staff
  • DMG Changes
    • Epic - 270 > 290
    • Legendary - 300 > 325
    • Ammo Reload - 1.5 > 1.1
    • Ammo - 25 > 15

• Flare
  • Fire Persist - 2.01 > 3.01
  • DMG - 200 > 300
  • Effect Radius - 220 > 250
  • Projectile Speed - 200 > 300

• Chicken Health - 800 > 700
• Healing Increase - 50% > 25%
• Reload Increase - 50% > 25%
• Weapon Damage - 15% > 10%

• Addressed multiple causes of the game crashing on switch
• The Forge Mushroom will now slide players off in Fungal Jungle.
• Fixed issue where the game could end early if a player were damaged at the edges of the map
• Fixed an issue where trapper no longer can root twice.

• BokOps Battle Pass
  • 50 levels of futuristic military cosmetics unlockable by playing Realm Royale
  • Unlock the premium track of the Battle Pass for 900 Crowns, or unlock the Battle Bundle, which contains the premium track and 20 immediate levels, for 2,250 Crowns!
• Third Ability Slot
  • Players will now be able to equip an Offensive, Support, and Movement Ability at the same time
  • Players will have the option of Forging either Class-specific Abilities, or Forging from the neutral pool of Abilities available in game
  • Forge Talents now apply to the Forge Class Ability selection
• Gyro Support PS4 & Switch
  • Gyro has been added to PlayStation 4 and Switch controllers
• Input-Based Matchmaking
  • Players can now use the Input-Based Matchmaking Preference option under Gameplay
    • Same Input Type: Players who use a controller for a crossplay match will now only be matched with other players on a controller
    • Any Input Type: Players will be placed into lobbies with players using controllers and mouse and keyboard
  • If a player on a controller joins a party with a player on a keyboard and mouse, they’ll be placed into Any Input Type matchmaking
  • Players cannot change input methods during matches
• Custom Game Player Requirements Lowered
  • The amount of required players to launch a custom game has been lowered from 24 to 12
• Rank Rewards Coming with OB23
  • Reward for reaching the Master rank in at least one queue has been pushed to the OB23 update. Ranks will not be reset with the OB22 update
• PS4 Cross-Play
  • Cross-play now welcomes PlayStation 4 to cross-play
  • Add players as in-game friends on the Social tab, then invite them to your party to play together
  • We do not currently support cross-progression (shared Achievement / Trophy progress) and cross-commerce (shared pool of purchased items across platforms). We’re working alongside our partners at Sony and will update the community when we have more information on these subjects

• Fungal Jungle
  • Fungal Jungle has a new look. We’ve taken the area and made it sky-high
  • Inside the buildings players can now find more chests, and more areas to ambush their enemies
• Small updates to clean up previously existing issues on the map

• Weapons
  • Shotgun:
    • Added Knockback to base fire, scales with rarity
    • Damage increased to 750/800/850/950
    • Accuracy
      • Non-ADS accuracy increased to 75%
      • ADS accuracy increased to 80%
    • Time in between each shot increased to 1.1s
    • Reload speed decreased to 1.6s
    • Clip size increased from 5 to 6
• Abilities
  • Dodge Roll
    • Movement distance increased
    • Cooldown decreased to 15/12/10/8
  • Flask of Healing
    • Cooldown decreased from 35/30/30/25 to 18/16/14/12
  • Healing Shout
    • Cooldown decreased to 30/26/22/18
  • Heroic Leap
    • Cooldown decreased to 28/24/20/15
    • Increased leap range
  • Proximity Trap:
    • No longer deals damage
    • On explosion Proximity Trap will now slow enemies for 4s
    • Deploy time has been increased across all rarities
  • Shielding Potion
    • Cooldown decreased from 40/35/30/25 to 20/18/16/14
  • Shielding Shout
    • Decreased amount of Shield provided from 400 to 300
    • Cooldown decreased to 25/22/18/15
  • Turret (Legendary)
    • Range increased
    • Projectile speed increased
    • Damage per shot increased to 250
    • Time between shots decreased to 0.75s
    • Cooldown decreased to 15s
• Talents
  • Exaction (Hunter)
    • Decreased damage boost to 15%
  • Gladiator (Warrior)
    • Shieling Shout, Healing Shout, and Net Shot have 25% reduced Cooldown
  • Trapper (Hunter)
    • Changed to now Root for 1s and Reveal for 3s
• Runes
  • Replaced Ability Cooldown Rune with Offensive Ability Cooldown Rune and Support Ability Cooldown Rune
  • Chicken Health Rune bonus decreased from 1000 to 800 Health

• Quality of Life Improvements
  • Changing custom bindings will now be reflected in the UI immediately upon changing them
  • While scoped in with the Sniper Rifle, crosshairs will no longer appear on the screen
  • There is now an option to bind map ping to a controller through the binding menu
  • Rounds now end with the fog centered on a forge a majority of the time
  • Players are now able to mute players through the in-game map, by selecting their party member and choosing to mute
• Bug Fixes
  • Addressed an issue where the spectator would focus on the incorrect player after your party is eliminated
  • Skull of Chaos can no longer deal damage to players using Ice Block
  • Snow no longer falls inside the Coldmist Village Forge
  • Gatekeeper’s walking speed no longer gets stuck on the player if the weapon is swapped while charging
  • Abilities cannot be dropped from the inventory while they are active
• Under Investigation
  • We are still investigating the cause of some crashes on Nintendo Switch
  • We are still investigating the source of some lag issues on PlayStation 4