Since the Ashe patch went live I have been experiencing odd, and much longer, load times into the game. I used to be able to load into a game, get to the character select screen, and choose a character withing seconds. Now I get into a game and there is a good amount of lag loading (upwards of 30 seconds), and when I get in to a game characters are already taken. Nothing seems to help, anyone else experiencing this? No patch has done this to me before.
This may be a pain to do but I recommend a full uninstall and reinstall if this is happening.
From other reports when the patch launch, this seems to help minimize the symptom you describe.
Will try that, as annoying as that is lol.
UPDATE: Tried a full reinstall. Did not work. Now the game is even taking longer to load characters into a game DURING active play. I can see the map, but no players, friendly or otherwise. Not even my own.
Have you tried investigating this as a connection issue?
Yes I have, and it is not. That was my first instinct. Aside from that this started happening the day that the patch went through, that would be a major coincidence. I am still looking into other issues that may be causing it on my end, but there are other people who I have read that have been experiencing similar issues. I have found that if I load up a game in the practice range, let the characters in the instance load fully, then I do not seem to have that particular issue. I was able to cut down load time going into games as well, but it is still a far cry from what it was. It is just frustrating that the game was working perfectly up until this latest patch, and now it is not. It is borderline unplayable at some points.