Long loading screens are a major bummer, let's face it, and nobody wants to sit there drumming their fingers on their desk after they've just gotten geared up to wipe out a bloodthirsty cult of Reagan-worshippers in the icy mountains of Wasteland 3. Fortunately, the RPG game has a new patch out that addresses the game's long loading times, cutting them by up to 60% on PC.
On both Steam and GOG, you can download Wasteland 3 patch 1.1.2 now, which inXile has jokingly titled 'Save Scummers Delight." The reduced load times were a pretty significant task: inXile says its engineers rewrote the game's process for level loading, and in testing environments it's led to 38 seconds of loading cut down to just 13.
The developer notes that "your hardware, save data, and which level you're loading into can all impact load times" and thus "your mileage may of course vary." You'll notice, too, that auto-saving won't happen as part of the initial load-in of the level, but instead will take place as a separate concurrent process - which may mean you'll load into a scene before the auto-save has completed. As long as you don't close Wasteland 3 while the little Ranger star badge is spinning, you'll be okay.
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