Wondering if anyone can suggest something I could try to rectify extremely long load times for SoT on the Xbox One S (besides buying an SSD) - Me and my partner play the game together on a sloop, both running the same model external USB HDD, both installed on the external HDD - The thing is, she loads into the game in 1m and 44 seconds using the original Xbox One - My game on the other hand takes a staggering 3m and 56 seconds!
Sadly, it's no better once I'm in the game either - Getting back to the ship using a merman (despite the fact that I can see the ship) takes a mind boggling 1 minute and 13 seconds! Takes her 27 seconds on the original console - Then there's getting killed and respawning, it takes so long to load the Ferry of the Damned that by time I've loaded onto it the doors are already open - Then it takes over a minute to load back onto the ship (oh, and during the last Tall Tale quest where you don't spawn back on the ship if you die, I was getting attacked by skeletons whilst I was still in the loading screen and I actually died before I'd even loaded back into the game twice!)
You could argue that the load times would be a little bit longer as it has to upscale the game into 4K HDR - But them load times are even with the console running in 1080P mode with HDR disabled! Let's also not forget that the One S also has a slightly faster GPU (914MHz compared to the originals 853MHz) so if anything the game should be a second or two faster
I've tried re-installing it and clearing the cache all to no avail. If maybe I was running a 5400RPM drive and she was running a 7200RPM drive then maybe I could accept slightly longer wait times, but we're both running the same make and model of drive, both bought at the same time on effectively the same hardware