Anyone have any idea how to get out of the blackscreen other than using the Panic item? Every time I do the camp sleep thing, the screen goes black for a while, which yeah, I get, its supposed to happen.
However, I am pretty sure I'm not supposed to be able to open the menu as if the game has loaded but the transition screen didnt get the memo to go away.
I saw some people talking about the auto-save maybe being the culprit, but thats about it.
My leading theory is that it's not the auto-save, but rather a lack of optimization in the coding/event scripting process. In earlier builds of the game, the camp exit loading time didn't take nearly as long, and this is most likely due to the fewer things that were necessary to unload from the camp, and/or the fewer things to load on the overworld.
Pretty much each update a princess or other named recruitable character is added, events are added to the campsite map.
Most of it is stuff that checks your party to see who you do or don't have in your party, as well as the unique dialogue, art, and animations for each character.
Leaving the campsite is pretty much the only extremely long load time that I know of at this point in development, so it's much easier to plan around that than to wait for it to be worked on in the meantime.
A couple of things you could do;
Wait for it to load- This is, regrettably, probably the least desired option. It does eventually load- for me it takes about 4 to 5 seconds before the menu is openable, and a total of 19 to 20 before the game finally loads the world map. This might not be quite the same for you, but it should at least give you a decent idea. During the time the menu is available, you can actually move around the world map- so if you camp in front of an area transition, you can totally just skip the loading and go to that place instead. Good luck doing that on accident if you didn't plan for it, though.
Worth noting: Spending time in the menu also pauses the loading/unloading process, too.
Save/Load when menu is available- This saves you a couple of seconds, and the world map shows up as soon as you load the game. My guess is that instead of going through every line of code one by one, it force quits all of them to load the new file.
Don't Camp Unless Necessary - While this might sound counterintuitive seeing as a lot of the personal character moments are in the campsite, as well as your only way of leveling characters up, it's all a lot less necessary than you might think. This does bring the unfortunate downside of time not moving forwards to the start of the next morning, thus causing some NPCs and events to linger for longer than they should- however, this can be fixed relatively easily by simply resting at the tavern, and in some cases a princess reign's inn- though those seem to be a bit less reliable. They also cost different amounts.
I genuinely don't recommend using Panic Button, since it's not necessary and costs you a relatively sizeable amount of swirlies.
Hope this helps!
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