We're making a few changes here.
- making loading transition times faster in general
- making sure that every transition situation does have a loading "toast" notification so you have instant feedback
- making it so that after a brief moment... I think it's 1.5s, it takes you to the loading screen(this is instead of it waiting for some round trip information for server connections to happen before taking to the loading screen which results in what you're pointing out here - and we agree it felt awful)
Also worth noting that we'll always be working towards faster zone transition times. At 1.0 it will be better than it is now though.
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