Freezing for long minutes in Arena of the Gods + Difficulty spike is very rough

  • Game Version: 18.33318 (Update Version 1.011.000 on Playstation 5)

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  • Platform: Playstations

  • Operating System: Sony Playstation 5

Issue: Game constantly freezing and lagging in the Arena of the Gods mode. I just recently installed the new patch for ps5 and before this update, I had never once recieved any lagging or freezing when playing Arena of the Gods. I had put over 15 hours into it, so I am sure of no freezing. Now I am going back to try beat the missions on Hard difficulty, and the game is freezing for varying different times when anything happens. What I mean by anything is that my walls were being attacked - game freezes for 2 minutes. I am producing 4 sets of each military unit - game freezes for 2 minutes. I am building farms at the start of the game (2/3 at once) and the game freezes for 3 minutes. When the game is frozen, I can’t press pause, can’t press any buttons or do anything but wait.

While you are there, can you PLEASE adjust the difficulty of Hard difficulty in Arena of the Gods? Some of those missions on Hard are ridiculously unfair and depressing for players who try hard to beat them, put 40 minutes into the match just to lose. The scale from normal difficulty to hard is a massive gap and it makes some of those missions ridiculous. If you can please adjust this as well that would be great.

Trigger Event:

  • There was no trigger, it is seemingly random.

Repro Steps:

  1. Just play arena of the gods. I was playing the gold rush map on the first page on Hard.
  2. Do any sort of mass production, queing or building.