net_graph entities

Hey all:

I'm working on a little reskin of arena_nucleus for the season. However, after hurriedly rushing off a build to my community server, we found that it experienced pretty sizable lag. We figured there was no way it could be the map's fault (basically no logic changed, added a few props) so I joked that the map was haunted.

Turns out I was wrong. With net_graph 3, I can see a TREMENDOUS amount of "in" from "entities". II have no damn clue what could be causing this. It's just a recompile of the decompile of nucleus, so all the optimization brushes/areaportals are in place from the official release.

Any advice on how to debug this?



And here's the same spot in stock arena_nucleus

UPDATE: I have determined the culprits to be these guys, dancing in the spawn (I did a build that removed only them and no the graph returned to normal). That said, this is only eight total models across both spawns, so I don't understand why it's wrecking network traffic so bad. Furthermore, they're set to stop drawing pretty much as soon as you exit the spawn, but still the issue persists.

My hero.