Flying close to other drones should run a lot better now. The drone model was
being drawn at full detail no matter how far away it was, so frames dropped
hard whenever a few drones were near you.
It now scales with distance.
In testing, the cost of drawing drones went down by about 40 percent with a
screen full of them.
Shooting should feel smoother too. Every shot used to build and throw away a
pile of temporary effect objects, and you were paying that for other players'
shots as well. That build up was behind the small freezes during fights. Those
effects are reused now instead of being recreated.
A few smaller stutters are gone as well, from the HUD and the damage numbers
doing more work each frame than they needed to.
If you were one of the people who reported lag near bots, tell me if it feels
better on your side.
Thanks for the reports, they were what pointed me at this.