durzothe seal update caused everyone on my friends list, me included, to take nearly 3x as long to load into servers. it's genuinely insane that so few other people seem to have noticed it. for people with fast computers, 3-4 second load times are now easily 10+ seconds, but for people with slower computers like some of my friends, their old 15-20 second load times are now sometimes so long that they literally cannot join the server before it times them out. i know i don't have a solution for this but just wanted to throw my 2 cents in and say that this is, from what i understand, a universal issue caused by the latest update
i find it bizarre. the posts i linked in mine are just a few of the ones you can find of people detailing the same issue, yet no one is discussing it at all. appreciate you giving your pov on this a lot, cause hopefully if enough people talk abt it, it will get noticed and adressed by someone or even valve. ty very much
crespiIn addition to the slower join time, one little detail I noticed is that the loading screen goes completely black for a few seconds before coming back, right before you finally join the server. I don't think that used to be a thing.
havent noticed this happening to me but it definetly isn't something it used to do. at least i dont think so