Only thing that seemed to work is manually setting outbound firewall rules. This seemed to work until 15.19 and then everything pegged at 254 ticks again. About to give up on multiplayer as there is just something wrong with this game.

Bump for support.

Attempted to reconfigure server without success. Also setup a VPN connection to try a LAN game with minimal results as well. Game play max 1 hour before latency spikes at 254. Any ideas?

My friends and I are having this same exact issue. Tried everything we could think of (and many items posted previously here) without success. Anything on this issue would be a huge help.

Hello, my friends and I are attempting to play on a headless windows 7 server and experiencing extreme lag basically making the game unplayable. We've used this server many other times for various games without issue, but for some reason Factorio just doesn't seem to cooperate. Typically about 5-10 ...