Game Unresponsive when entering new areas or before starting the game

When starting to play the game after successful authentication, the application becomes unresponsive. It is stuck on the lioneye watch loading page.

I am in NZ and server latency is 2ms only. This happens 9/10 tries everytime I play the game.

Whenever successful and got to play the game for quite a bit, it also happens when moving back to town or entering a different area of the game.

I am also getting this issue very frequently when changing locations, both new areas and going back to town. I'm in North America (Washington Server). Tonight, it happened twice fully unresponsive and once where it recovered after ~30 seconds.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB RAM, 4080 Super if that helps

I am also experiencing this issue. I haven't played this game in years and decided to give it another try since I got a new PC. The game is unplayable for me.

Sometimes loading the game in to Lioneye Watch, I can't move my character. Logging out and in again fixes the issue, but then sometimes going in to a new area causes my character to not be able to move again. Game graphics seems to run smoothly and responsive, my character is just stuck.

At one point my character was frozen in a T-pose when loading a new area.

Intel i9-12900HK and using CPU graphics. South Africa.

This is happening so often in poe2.. Sometimes I can't reenter a map, trying 30+ times and it finally times out, losing the map and all drops. About 1/3 zone changes result in a crash. But while a crash happens, going into that zone then results in about 9 crashes out of 10 tries. This really makes this game unplayable. A lot of ppl in global, discord and forums seem to be suffering from the same problem. Also some streamers seem to be affected but changed pc's.

Why isn't this issue even explicitly mentioned on the tracker?