given the average playtime of the forum-goers we’ve all heard them thousands of times. they provide nothing but artificially extending the load times. yes the game does not need that much time to load. remember the mission briefing skip bug?
we should have a vote to skip mission briefing option this should allow new players to still hear it, older players to skip it and reconnecting players to avoid the torture of waiting a few extra seconds when reconnecting to a game they CTD’ed out of.
I wish I could install the zipit mod. But it doesn’t work at all for me (never ending loading screen bug).
But tbh, I wanted to remove the lore sentences in the missions. I like briefing, especially when I hear Rannick saying “Emperor protects” in gloriana’s briefing.
then you can just not vote to skip it if they were implement that option my main issue is when you are the only person connecting to an on going mission you should have the option to skip the mission briefing.
I like them, they give me time to get ready, along with my computer to load the map. I also like the immersion of a mission briefing.
Additionally, I have played with a few friends who are still loading while I am connected in the game, they mention they are joining and have to run to catch up. So I don’t think we are waiting for everyone specifically during the briefing.
the loading times are deceptively lengthened you can measure them out yourself for whenever kayex8 decides to do a mission briefing. before the quick mission briefing bug was fixed everyone most of the time would load at once.
and nothing you said negates the need for a vote to skip button
At first glance, I think you won’t be able to bypass the “waiting for other players” part unless everyone runs the same bypass for the stuff leading up to it, I may be wrong.
I do not know the teams involved, but dev time is still dev time. I would rather devs spend time on other priorities first, the maps suggestions is just a preferred example.
In summary, skipping mission briefing is a non-issue, niche complaint and personally a waste of time to implement.
Plus the alt-f4 crowd would love a faster join, they can wait.
yeah sure lets design the entire game around people who ruin it for everyone and ignore the amount of disconnects that happen because of server instability. literally happened twice to me today
I personally don’t mind most briefings but it’s proven that they make you load a lot longer than you’d need without them. Also, the briefings from the enginseer drive me up the damn walls.