Tell me you have an unstable connection without telling me you have an unstable connection

Players using XBOX consoles cannot view their ping.
They are unwilling to provide this feature for the host.
When the game told me that my connection was unstable, I had no way to troubleshoot. A ridiculous feature.

@mr-spx-ss said in Tell me you have an unstable connection without telling me you have an unstable connection:

Players using XBOX consoles cannot view their ping.
They are unwilling to provide this feature for the host.
When the game told me that my connection was unstable, I had no way to troubleshoot. A ridiculous feature.

We're using a laptop and an Xbox S series. ( Got kicked off the Xbox today solo for context). We've tried everything from me lowering my graphics to cursed, to taking all our phones and external devices off our wifi. We've tried hardlining Ethernet in both devices, tried one hardlined, one not, etc. Appreciate your input. 🙏

@d3adst1ck

Thanks so much for the feedback and your suggestions. It truly does feel "out of our hands" which is so frustrating when it comes to problem-solving. There doesn't seem to be a guarantee "fix"when we're reliant on other parties to provide stability. We thought we had an outdated router and so we had Verizon send us a new one but that didn't resolve anything. We're in the Eastern part of the US. Thank you for commenting 🙏

@r3vanns

I used to get the rubber banding, what some folks call the "teleporting" glitchiness some time back and then I would plug directly into our wireless modem and it, for the most part, fixed it. I thought we were lagging now because we're using two separate devices on one modem but I was alone today on Xbox and ot kicked me off (gotta do the damned Briggsy story book quest again). I hit that Share button like 10 times to capture that "ship taking a nap" haha. Might start phrasing it that way when I see it start to go skyward. It's like watching an accident about to happen and theres nothing you can do to stop it. Thanks for your input. 🙏

@r3vanns Super valid point! We do a lot of SS because we're just trying to complete TTs and find bullsh-t journals and don't feel like being intruded on by other players looking to sink ships. One time, we were in HS, had our loot stolen but weren't attacked and we were like, " yo, you literally just stole our quest item" and they didn't attack us but instead showed me a secret door in a tavern...but anyway, THATS why we do quests in SS. Thanks for sharing your napping ship moment hahaha. ✌️

I am suffering with this constantly, I don't know if it's on my end or not, sometimes I can play fine all day no problem and sometimes I get kicked 5 times before even entering the game usually says cyanbeard, granitebeard. Stuff like my guilds and supply shops, pirate log etc. take forever to load and I will often crash out talking to the supply shops, sometimes I'll be in hourglass and it will be fine for a few games then I'll dive into a server and my connection is so bad I can't even bail my boat, never have a problem playing other games so it's frustrating, also I never have any of these issues on xbox plays fine I just get this on my pc usong same connection

Sometimes I'll be talking to the supply shops but they won't load so I just sail off without the supplies I did this yesterday had extremely unstable connection when I sailed off and went on to do 3 legendary bottle voyages in that session no problem, it bothers me more when it's in hourglass and someone is like "well played" and I'm lagging so much I can't even bucket I'm throwing 10 buckets out and nothing is happening

@bumpersum967441

Hey thanks for joining this discussion. My HP laptop loads a lot slower than the Xbox S does. My girlfriend will be on the Xbox while I'm on the laptop and it'll show that I've joined the server on the Xbox end and doesn't load up on my laptop for a good 20 seconds or give or take. Are you playing in High Seas or Safer Seas mainly when this is happening?

@jack-flintlock

Yeah, awfully curious, it seems that even stable or decent internet connections are experiencing this problem and, here we were getting all angry with our ISP. Thanks for sharing!

UPDATE: We played last night (07-19-25, 8pm EST) in High Seas to test the waters (pun nearly intended) and we had little to no issues connection wise. We got the icon, more so on my laptop than the Xbox but it was (here's another one) smooth sailing for the most part in High Seas. We're gonna play this morning and sea...(ok now it's too much) what happens. Appreciate everyone' input!

UPDATE 2: our High Seas session this morning (07-20-25 appx 8am EST)was uninterrupted despite the minor Unstable Connection notifications. Perhaps we will just continue to play in High Seas and hope for the best. As much as I can appreciate the PvP scenario/competitive play aspect of this game, there is a 0% chance that I will disrupt or fire upon another player unless provoked and, even if someone abruptly engages us in combat, we're more likely to just remove ourselves from the situation. Our objective right now is completing all the Tall Tales and then, we'll be more likely to engage in friendly PvP gameplay. May the winds ever be in y'alls backs! Please feel free to post here and share your experiences with Unstable Connections. Cheers! -jj

This morning I played in Safer Seas and didn't get kicked but had a couple flying ship moments, I thought to be magically Peter Pan-esque lol. 07/21

I also get 3-4 unstable connection popups per session but it's certainly nothing to do with my internet. It usually causes severe lag and rubberbanding for about 10 seconds and then i'm fine again.

@imjohnnymonsoon

B-mmer is a strong word here? (about to see for myself* oh my gosh it is!!). Gosh, I wonder what weight that bears in other regions.

Thanks for sharing your experience with Helldivers!

@potatosord
Thanks for sharing. where are you located about? you can be regional about it.

@hefty-henri

Thanks for sharing! And do you play mainly in SS or HS ?

@exceptedcolt660 EU always high seas

Well, I'm convinced and ,I want to graciously thank everyone here for their comments in confirming that our Unstable Connection issues don't appear to be at the fault of our Internet Service provider but rather something on the Sea of Thieves server end. We'll be keeping our Verizon Wireless Internet plan after all.

Happy sailing, and also, Please post any pictures of flying/sinking unstable ships for amusement! Would love to see some airborn vessels!

-Captain Jason T. Jackson
(for real tho, I have a boating license)

⛵🏴‍☠️🦜🦈🍍🌊🪨🌅

@r3vanns great view! 😁⛵🏝️

@exceptedcolt660

In case people don't know, cheaters have the ability to completely crash/ruin servers.

A friend of mine recently beat a cheater in hourglass, when the cheater said "oh yeah? watch this". For the next 40 minutes my friend had a ping of 1000, his ship kept floating into the air, he was endlessly rubberbanding, etc. Hourglass dives would fail every time, until he just had to leave and start a new ship.

So if you're in a region that has lots of cheaters, there's a chance they're just ruining the servers you're on.

@worst-tdmer Appreciate this tip! This is interesting because it seems, despite Rare ltd. having an anti-cheat service/protocol (call it what you will) in place, players still have this ability to disrupt the game's intended state of play. Needless to say, cheating in an online game isn't unheard of but, how as a community are we to acknowledge or determine if it's in-fact a server/internet issue or, is someone messing with the program ? I myself once got booted for "cheating" according to the pop-up message, I forget what the actual message was but, I'm not savvy enough to know how to mess with the code, nor would I want to because there's nothing to gain, I think, from doing it. I wonder then if this is only an issue in High Seas, vs Safer Seas since SS has the "floating ship" issue as well. Thanks for your input 🙏