Extremely long load when clicking "play offline"

Bug Reports
1

I don’t have any logs because it doesn’t produce any errors.

I am playing Last Epoch on steam. I have the launcher set to “always offline”.

Whenever I launch the game after not playing for over an hour, when I click the “play offline” button, there is an extremely long load time before it loads the character screen. At least a few minutes. No indication from Task Manager that anything is locking up (no 100% cpu or harddrive).

If I force-quit during this delay and immediately relaunch the game, it will load into the character screen right away.

Happy to provide whatever info I can, just not sure what else to add since there’s no errors or anything in particular to screenshot.

2

Just timed it and it took 6 minutes and 55 seconds after clicking “play offline” for the character screen to load.

I’m playing on a dual-harddrive setup where I have the game installed on an NVME drive, but my windows is running on an SSD. So I can only assume there’s some kind of issue with the code that’s trying to retrieve the character files.