How do we cancel or leave a loading screen?

ines2015 · August 4

Very often when a Battleground is launching I get stuck in an infinite loading screen, and nothing happens for a long long time. After waiting for that long I'm always sent to the login. While waiting there's no indication of a key to quit. So, I've been wonder how do we cancel a loading screen and return to the game. Usually I already know that the Battleground will not start after a few minutes, so, I'd prefer to quit the loading and return to the game than keep waiting until I get removed.

UNSeki · August 5

There isn't really a way provided by the game. Usually just using Alt + F4 (or bringing up the Task Manager and shutting down the game) should work, but in some cases the server might still recognize you as being logged in, and you might have trouble re-entering. Normally, this fixes itself after several minutes, when the servers kick you for inactivity.

vsrs_au · August 7

Yes, displaying a screen that takes an excessively long time to expire, and providing no way to exit from the screen, is just bad software design.

zaria · August 14

UNSeki wrote: »

There isn't really a way provided by the game. Usually just using Alt + F4 (or bringing up the Task Manager and shutting down the game) should work, but in some cases the server might still recognize you as being logged in, and you might have trouble re-entering. Normally, this fixes itself after several minutes, when the servers kick you for inactivity.

Yes if client crashes server keeps you on usually some minutes as it might be an short internet issue and getting kicked from groups is not fun either. Now raterly have long loading screens outside of weird bugs.

Necrotech_Master · August 14

vsrs_au wrote: »

Yes, displaying a screen that takes an excessively long time to expire, and providing no way to exit from the screen, is just bad software design.

if the software locked up or froze, even if an option is provided it wouldnt solve the issue

sometimes the game locks up on a load screen entirely and has to be killed at the process level, i dont think any game does that, if it crashes and doesnt terminate you have to terminate the application your self

some games do have crash reporters that pop up but depending on how the application got stuck that might not always pop up

Jaimeh · August 14

Couldn't resist the meme

On topic, when I'm stuck in an infinite loading screen I usually just end the game process and reload the game.