Lengthy loading screens are a significant bummer, let’s face it, and no person desires to sit down there drumming their fingers on their desk after they’ve simply gotten geared as much as wipe out a bloodthirsty cult of Reagan-worshippers within the icy mountains of Wasteland 3. Thankfully, the RPG recreation has a brand new patch out that addresses the sport’s lengthy loading instances, chopping them by as much as 60% on PC.
On each Steam and GOG, you’ll be able to obtain Wasteland 3 patch 1.1.2 now, which inXile has jokingly titled ‘Save Scummers Delight.” The lowered load instances had been a reasonably important activity: inXile says its engineers rewrote the sport’s course of for degree loading, and in testing environments it’s led to 38 seconds of loading reduce down to simply 13.
The developer notes that “your {hardware}, save knowledge, and which degree you’re loading into can all influence load instances” and thus “your mileage might in fact range.” You’ll discover, too, that auto-saving gained’t occur as a part of the preliminary load-in of the extent, however as an alternative will happen as a separate concurrent course of – which can imply you’ll load right into a scene earlier than the auto-save has accomplished. So long as you don’t shut Wasteland 3 whereas the little Ranger star badge is spinning, you’ll be okay.
InXile has additionally fastened just a few progression-halting bugs in Wasteland 3’s story, made it in order that the sport doesn’t crash for those who attempt to give up whereas Main Prasad is speaking, and repaired some issues with text-to-speech and speech-to-text methods within the recreation. You possibly can learn the total listing of patch notes on the official website.
Gina cherished the sport, however the load instances had been sufficient of a problem that she famous them in our Wasteland 3 evaluation – though they weren’t severe sufficient to influence the 9/10 rating she awarded it.
