I'm playing a multiplayer game with my friend, and we're enjoying the content so far but one aspect is beginning to ruin our experience: saving and loading.
At one point we were about to wipe from an encounter and decided to quick load the most recent save. The load screen completed the first bar, and then hung for at least 15 minutes before we gave up and force quit the program. It seems like the game did not freeze, as the hints continued to cycle at the top of the screen, but it simply stopped loading. Could it have loaded if we were more patient? Maybe, but who on earth is going to wait through 20 minute load times in a modern game? It's a game breaker.
Some time later we were in town talking to some NPC's. My friend attempted to go down some stairs, at which point the game began to autosave... and it never resumed. Again we waited, probably 5 minutes this time before force quitting out of frustration. We stopped playing for the night.
We both have computers that are plenty capable of running this game. It performs well and looks great, but if I'm going to lose progress because it's a roll of the dice whether the game can execute a basic save or load then I question whether I will continue playing.
Any thoughts?
