It became a problem with the launch of Shadowkeep and it's still a problem with season of Dawn. Is that three months later?
I mention it because I've never actually seen any acknowledgement of the issue from Bungie themselves, and well because moving from one PvP match to another is just absurdly and annoyingly slow, especially on consoles.
So, any word on a fix?
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In patch 2.6.1 (Oct 29 2019) we got the following change: "Fixed an issue that increased loading times for gear preview while in space flight". For some reason I noticed this at the time and immediately had my first black screen after this patch - at the time I put 2 and 2 together and assumed the black screen was part of this change. If you notice when you're in the black "waiting room" as it were you can freely examine weapons, change shaders etc.My theory - instead of having us spend longer looking at our ships flying in, at which time the game seemed to struggle to display gear and allow us to tinker, we are instead shown the black screen once our console / PC loads in to the game while we wait for everyone else in the lobby to load in and synchronize. This makes sense when you consider most players experiencing this are using an SSD and therefore load significantly faster than the rest of the lobby.
In short I believe that the loading times are not increased, we're just looking at a black screen instead of our ships.
Your theory is pretty accurate! We are definitely NOT sending players to a black screen in order to improve load times. Additionally, the black screen is not a sign of increased load times. Here is the gist of what is going on.
In 2.6.1, we introduced a bug that let players leave space flight earlier than intended. The players that leave space flight early still need to wait for every other player to finish loading before playing the intro cinematic, so they see the black screen which understandably feels like something is wrong. We are still working on the fix and it will be deployed in a future update.
Prior to 2.6.1, you remained in space flight while waiting for other players to finish loading. Once every player was loaded, all players would proceed to the black screen at the same time, followed by the intro cinematic.
We're still working on the fix and it will be deployed in a future update.
I run the game off of floppy disks, and Iām swapping as fast as I can!
Please insert disk 11.
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