IT feels like Larian is making me communicate with their servers before letting my games load.
I have a SSD hard drive and almost all other single player game load wicked fast, but this game has loading delays which are on par with games that require verification with a server before it lets the game load.
Either that or the game is so poorly optimized that it is bottle-necking at what to do with the load data. Either way it is a problem that should have been addressed in beta.