[3.03] Unusually long pause before the summoning of Woedica's Judge and Headsman

[desel]

I don't remember the game freezing up that long at this moment in earlier builds.

 

youtube.com/watch?v=TFDodcT2PuI

 

There's another longer pause right after interacting with the mechanism on the soul machine that triggers the final dialogue before the end slides.

 

youtube.com/watch?v=wgXTyurtBKc

[Sking]

Yeah, this is a known issue. It is the auto-save that triggers right after the dialogue. The bigger your save file and save folder, the longer the pause will be. We haven't figured out a way to smooth this out.

 

- Sking

[desel]

I see, thanks for clearing that up.
Also explains why there wasn't such a long pause or rather no pause at all in vanilla PoE.

Couldn't you just disable auto-saving at this/those particular moment(s)? Surely everyone does a manual save right before facing off with Thaos anyway.