I understand the devs made an attempt to increase fps by pre-loading assets before you zone in, but since they have made this change my experience in the game has done a complete 180.
Load screens take almost a minute or more and I risk the game crashing if I click into my 2nd monitor.
Sometimes portaling to town creates this wierd issue where the game returns to town, I see my portal, but I don’t see my player and I cannot do anything.
Im still experiencing FPS issues
If you zone hop a little too quickly you risk the game lagging out and crashing.
I’ve often zoned into boss arenas and regular zones completely dead before I can even move (I hear this is being addressed?)
Just overall, the performance of the game for me has been horrible. A complete 180 on what it was for me. I spend more time in load screens or staring at my desktop waiting to load the game again than actually playing. It’ll be a tough sell for me to continue playing for much longer at this rate. And I can spare you the “This is the only game that does this” routine, but its true. Coming from POE/Lost Ark (and its massive smooth cutscenes mid fight) and a myriad of other titles without much issue.