Screen freezes multiple times per hour

Exact same issues here. Base PS4. It has been 2 weeks now since the launch for consoles and the game is STILL unplayable. Constant crashes and freezes.
Really disappointed GGG, we just want to play...

I was literally like 3 steps from the Ossuary Trial stone last night, I do get the freezes probably every 45 minutes to an hour while playing, just running then freeze, 20-30 seconds pass and I'm at main menu. I'm usually not far from a waypoint so it hasn't been super detrimental yet, but dropping literally feet from the trial stone was a giga tilter.

Over two weeks of people reporting this issue with no actual communication on a path towards resolving it from developers is disheartening.

this is crazy the game freezes (sometimes for up to 2 minutes at a time) then kicks you to the menu and you're saying its a connection issue. Its not a connection issue i along with the other 50 people that have been talking about it on the forums here didnt have this issue until a couple patches before the expedition patch. you saying its a connection issue is basically like telling us its never going to get fixed

Blue screen, disconnect, blue screen, disconnect. This is frustrating.

It looks like a connection issue but it has indeed been introduced with Expedition. Base PS4 from Germany, happens on Amsterdam and Frankfurt, trying London now but I really doubt it's an actual connection issue. Still using a wired connection, nothing in my internet connection chain changed, nothing else has connection issues and everything works fine while Path of Exile is frozen and disconnects.
I bet it's again something connected to resource management that chokes the resources for the actual connection handling or console OS (if the latter is possible) or an infinite loop of garbage collection.

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As expected, just happened with London too, gateway doesn't seem to matter. It sure helps the crash numbers though if we just keep getting disconnected. It's worse than actual DCs too as it seems to keep you in the game all that time, so you better only make AFK viable builds and never run content that punishes you for logging out. /s
Sorry for the snark, whoever reads this is hardly to blame but I hope you can understand the frustration when we have issues that happen so regularly and are so frustrating since they can ruin so much stuff. And then they don't really seem to be recognized or the devs don't really know what's happening. That doesn't bode well for a solution but GGG has surprised me positively in that regard too. Hope you can replicate it by just playing it on a normal PS4 on the normal gateways but still get some analytics out of it.

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And if there's anything I can do to help testing, I'd be happy to. I'm just glad we get some actual humans reading and answering here. I could save a video recording when it happens and upload it to youtube but there isn't anything interesting to look at. Seems to happen quite randomly and it's just frozen with an unexpected DC after some time. I also had the thing happen where the server/client seems to catch up and goes into hyper mode for a few seconds but only a few times.
I guess the /bug command doesn't help too much either in this case since I could only use it after I reconnect.

I don't even think I can play anymore, it's bad enough that I crash on occasion but it is crashing so hard that I have to unplug my PS4 slim. How is that a connection issue? This game has had connection issues every league but I have never seen anything like this, on any game. Again, like yesterday, I'm spending more time trying to play than playing. I have changed nothing since last league except moving my router closer so it's in line of sight.