And by “downtime”, I mean anything that isn’t time spent in a mission.
There’s the unavoidable time-suckers:
- Waiting through the absurd amount of loading screens.
- Being forced to run around the hub.
And the avoidable, but annoying ones:
- Waiting for the RNG shop
- Waiting for matchmaking
And then there’s the unintended ways that the game eats your time, such as:
- Crashes
- Player deaths (from, say, falling through the floor on spawn).
I have very limited time to play this game, since the only time there’s a decent playerbase here is peak hours (roughly 3-4 hrs a day). Knowing that so much of that time is going to be eaten by this stuff really kills my buzz to play.