Long loading screen (black screen) bug seems to be more frequent as of late

@reedski said in Long loading screen (black screen) bug seems to be more frequent as of late:

@greengrimz I've noticed this just recently, I was very impressed with my S for its swift loading times and reduced black screen of death in combat, but all of a sudden its dropped off a cliff and I'm back to getting sunk on a black screen like its a year ago

Something must be wrong, sometimes it loads normally. But sometimes this bug happens, and when you're in mid-fight it's not very laughable.

Is the bug the same on XboX? Where your hands just disappear until you restart the game?

@aniysan

The problem is 30% hardware 70% Rare's god awful "optimization"
and they wont fix it any time soon

I like to think they do what they can.

@sshteeve

I've not had the invisible hands, but when other crews are nearby I have had the loading issues from the ferry.
As with @reedski I have experienced excellent loading times on the new Series S (we got them a week apart) and yet for some reason we still experience these slow loads in these very specific conditions.
I have had an issue where I can no longer interact when I have died - if you hold X on the pad it just cancels itself out. Makes for combat being less than fun when you have to die to sort yourself out!

Yeah, definitely quite annoying game changer. You could literally be winning, but lose due to this long loading screen.

Hell, it almost happened to us the other day, we barely managed to bucket water to save our galleon that was drilled like swiss cheese. I think if we were literally half a second late we would have sank. And this was after we had an extreme upper hand on a fight. But when black screen hit us, the enemy ship had enough time to recuperate and retaliate.

black screen time is directly related to the amount of objects near by. This would be players, ships, and loot. Another reason to turn in often to limit the contribution of your loot to the black screen time.

@leftypirate99 said in Long loading screen (black screen) bug seems to be more frequent as of late:

black screen time is directly related to the amount of objects near by. This would be players, ships, and loot. Another reason to turn in often to limit the contribution of your loot to the black screen time.

Don't think that's very much true honestly. We are often hoarding treasures worth 200-300k gold before we sell, during which time I mostly load properly.

Maybe the amount of "surroundings" have an impact when the bug actually occures, and further worsen the loadup time. But surely load times are mostly fine, even if you or other ships carry a lot of items.

@greengrimz try having a haul over 1 million and see what your loading times are. It all adds up.

@leftypirate99 said in Long loading screen (black screen) bug seems to be more frequent as of late:

@greengrimz try having a haul over 1 million and see what your loading times are. It all adds up.

200-300k we carry on a regular. We've also carried 1 mil in loot on board as well. I really do think loot affects the length of the black screen only when the bug occures. Otherwise you can load up properly, even if there is a lot of loot around you.

Bro I’m on a 2013 XBOX one Launch system. 2-3 minute mermaids. 2-3 minute Ferrys! My number one cause of
Death/Fail is load times!

Sheet runs better streaming on my Wife's phone than my damn Xbox!

@captain-coel said in Long loading screen (black screen) bug seems to be more frequent as of late:

@greengrimz they have def gotten worse, i was solo fighting a brig last night and spawned back to a black screen, heard my boat sink and then started to drown before reappearing at 75% hp.

i consider my rig to be high end, Ryzen 3900x, 32gb ddr4 3600, 1tb gen 4 nvme, 3080 ti.

on max settings the game uses most of my vram and only like 50-60% gpu. seems like it could be optimization issues.

This is most definitely NOT a rig issue.