Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else experiencing this slow loading screen? It never used to be like this for me, but the time it takes to load, I’d be better off walking back instead of wping.

Yes, there’s a complaint thread in Tech Support board about it.

Personally I think they’re waiting now until all the local player and NPC models as well as local sounds are loaded so they are rendered and heard right away. Before I would zone in and just see name tags and hear nothing for a few seconds as my hard drive continued to churn.

But I seem to be in the minority with that opinion.

I used to have it a few months ago, but now it’s better, I only get a long one if it’s the first time of the day I log on that charcter

Behellagh.1468:

Yes, there’s a complaint thread in Tech Support board about it.

Personally I think they’re waiting now until all the local player and NPC models as well as local sounds are loaded so they are rendered and heard right away. Before I would zone in and just see name tags and hear nothing for a few seconds as my hard drive continued to churn.

But I seem to be in the minority with that opinion.

There should be an option for this I think.
Regardless, it still does this for me even with the possible new rendering system.