JSP869 said: Brigby said: Hi Everyone. The developers are aware of this issue, and they are already investigating the increase number of load screens. According to this post on Reddit (no idea how valid it is) the game now apparently needs to download the art & animation for each character the first time you fight with or against them. The 'workaround' to minimize future loading screens is to play a match with every character in your roster.
Brigby said: Hi Everyone. The developers are aware of this issue, and they are already investigating the increase number of load screens.
TPF Alexis said: JSP869 said: According to this post on Reddit (no idea how valid it is) the game now apparently needs to download the art & animation for each character the first time you fight with or against them. The 'workaround' to minimize future loading screens is to play a match with every character in your roster. That doesn't fit with what I'm seeing. I get the long loading time even in Lightning Rounds, where I'm running the same team up against a very small selection of characters in the seed teams. But it's still taking just as long to load before the 6th Rags/Storm/Hawkeye team as it did the first.
JSP869 said: According to this post on Reddit (no idea how valid it is) the game now apparently needs to download the art & animation for each character the first time you fight with or against them. The 'workaround' to minimize future loading screens is to play a match with every character in your roster.
Style55 said: I feel like my complaint about this issue is "first world problem" status but this is a really annoying thing to have to sit through prior to starting each battle.
JSP869 said: Style55 said: I feel like my complaint about this issue is "first world problem" status but this is a really annoying thing to have to sit through prior to starting each battle. First World Problems we wouldn't really care. My heart goes out to folks playing in lesser developed nations who have to pay for their mobile data, and with this latest update this game is now chewing through data like a rottweiler with a pair of sneakers.
Oh for God's sake.The game doesn't use any more mobile data than before, it just reduced the initial download size and you have to do the small downloads once for every char when you start a match.It's annoying but data consumption is the same it ever was.
Bowgentle said: JSP869 said: Style55 said: I feel like my complaint about this issue is "first world problem" status but this is a really annoying thing to have to sit through prior to starting each battle. First World Problems we wouldn't really care. My heart goes out to folks playing in lesser developed nations who have to pay for their mobile data, and with this latest update this game is now chewing through data like a rottweiler with a pair of sneakers. Oh for God's sake.The game doesn't use any more mobile data than before, it just reduced the initial download size and you have to do the small downloads once for every char when you start a match.It's annoying but data consumption is the same it ever was.
peanut_gallery said: Bowgentle said: JSP869 said: Style55 said: I feel like my complaint about this issue is "first world problem" status but this is a really annoying thing to have to sit through prior to starting each battle. First World Problems we wouldn't really care. My heart goes out to folks playing in lesser developed nations who have to pay for their mobile data, and with this latest update this game is now chewing through data like a rottweiler with a pair of sneakers. Oh for God's sake.The game doesn't use any more mobile data than before, it just reduced the initial download size and you have to do the small downloads once for every char when you start a match.It's annoying but data consumption is the same it ever was. I'm realizing this now. I had originally thought it kept downloading the same assets over and over. Now I realize it's just very slowly building back up the assets as it needs them (and not dropping them and having to reload them).
Bowgentle said:Oh for God's sake.The game doesn't use any more mobile data than before, it just reduced the initial download size and you have to do the small downloads once for every char when you start a match.It's annoying but data consumption is the same it ever was.
CrookedKnight said: Bowgentle said:Oh for God's sake.The game doesn't use any more mobile data than before, it just reduced the initial download size and you have to do the small downloads once for every char when you start a match.It's annoying but data consumption is the same it ever was. Uh, the game is redownloading all assets as if you were loading it up for the first time, that's a spike in data consumption no matter how you frame it. It's not downloading the same ones over and over, but it did drop everything you had cached before R134, so anybody who downloaded the patch and starts playing on the go is going to get hit with a bunch of mobile data usage for no good reason. The only way to avoid that is to never start a match while off Wi-Fi until you've loaded every single character at least once, despite nothing in the game telling you what's going on. That's not exactly user-friendly.