Loading Times. Still.

Still ridiculous loading times. Just sitting here waiting for boosts to load (and watching some count down) in WoF Q3.

There’s a lot of good content. But game mechanics and game performance feel like they are near an all time low (there were surely other times, but phone-melt is one worse instance I can recall).

Is anyone on this? Is there enough manpower to actually work on it? There are so many loose ends lying around from bugs and stuff that went wrong last month I’m wondering if the team has the will to try to improve the way the game renders on our devices.

Dr. Zola

Comments

BringPopcorn

Loading time is ridiculous right now.

I got the wifi symbol of death multiple times in arenas yesterday, saved 1 round, 2 rounds lost. No biggie on that.

BGs i came to a 5 second ban timer or auto bans...

Doing AQ was extra painful hoping that the fight registered and didn't lose 50% HP...

I honestly wonder if they cut cost in bandwith or something at this point 🤣

xakareee

Yep, it's really bad. Swapping around relics, trying to do BGs, boosts like you mentioned, all taking years to load. It's cost me draft choices in BGs more than once, which sucks. Game has crashed on me multiple times just trying to run around in the menu.

Normax_X

especially with battlegrounds qualifying season, you enter a match 20 seconds late thats if the game doesn't autopick for you cause it didn't load your selected champ in time

Chuck_Finley

Every game mode, just keeps getting worse. Even trying to advance one node in AQ is “wait…wait….. wait…”

@BringPopcorn ’s experience is mine

Hasn’t been right since the server outages.

It’s almost as slow as Kabam’s acknowledgement of the problem

Furrymoosen

I am holding out hope that things will get better when the turnless based RPG goes into the dumpster. It's not a lot of hope though.

DrZola

The failure to even acknowledge it concerns me.

Is it too much load from content? Is it cost cutting mode? Is it something else completely?

I have a sense of unease with the general breakdown across forums, basic game responsiveness, communication…

And all of that is in addition to the usual issues with lag and frame stutter and and monthly cohort of bugs.

Dr. Zola

BringPopcorn

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2864908#Comment_2864908

I wish I had a screenshot from AQ yesterday, I was on MY path, not even a share fight. I moved to the fight and it showed the red clock with the timer showing as if it was in combat..

FiiNCH

I’ve had the same experience with load times, it’s incredibly frustrating.

JESUSCHRIST

COMPENSATION?

The loading times are slower than my hamster wheel powered crypto mining rig

JESUSCHRIST

Other games that I play loads much faster, generate less heat and requires less playtime

Longer loading time just adds to the time needed to do content

Giantwalrus56

Through all the lag post threads, I was fortunate to have avoided most. But, as mentioned above since the crash, the lag & the dreaded wifi signal has been pretty much everywhere. Been playing since 2018, never had a game crash(kabam side,) now I've had 3 in a week...

DrZola

Just. Trying. To. Navigate. The. Mini. Crucible. Takes. A. Long. Time. Please. Help. @KabamPinwheel

Dr. Zola

Unyonface

Yup, been a lot of these lately

WhoDaPoo

Yup. Was doing crucible last night and I got the red symbol once in every 7 fights. Once every 4 fights i had lag in going from the win screen back to the map. Then again when applying boosts it would lag with applying the first buff (of two or three I was going to apply.

Why the specific numbers listed here? Because it was so often to notice. And with the lag time to not play all I was left with was counting lol.

Between the lag and emergency server crashes over the past 6+ weeks, it really feels like Kabam is cost cutting on servers. I hope pinwheel or crashed can comment on what's really happening behind the scenes because to us players this just feels like another tick in the degrading quality of the game.

Penzito

At least everytime I see the circle spinning I think of this classic

What goes up, must come down

Spinnin' wheel got to go round

Talkin' bout your troubles, it's a cryin sin

Ride a painted pony, let the spinnin' wheel spin

DocWest

It’s been awful. Simple actions cause a huge delay and that red WiFi symbol keeps popping up. My screen sometimes goes black for a few seconds when trying to rank up or switch relics. Just an overall miserable experience, so I guess that means it’s working as intended.

Hulk808

nobody should spend until they fix this insane loading time issue.

M_A_D_D_Y

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/401647/loading-times-still

yeah fr man, it’s so irritating… my 40 min boost ends up feeling like 15–20 mins just cuz of these stupid loading times