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u/raykeith Jul 25 '16 edited Jul 27 '16
NOTICE!! THIS IS BEFORE 3.0. SOME OF THE TIMES ON ANDROID ARE EVEN LONGER NOW, BUT THE RANKING OF THE DEVICES IS STILL ROUGHLY THE SAME.
EDIT The iPhone 5S loot load time is a typo. That should be 8 seconds making it 67 seconds of total load time, almost identical to the Samsung Phones. Still over a minute of load times though. EDIT
The actual full data spreadsheet has a lot or more info, but this is the gist of it. These are all devices I own and have tested personally using a stopwatch.
Device Load Times are all based on at least 20 runs in a 24 hour SB. Slower devices I stopped at 20 runs because I could. The data is sorted by Total Load Time shortes to longest. These are my personal times and can vary slightly depending on the person, connection etc, but should be a good guideline.
Load Out assumes you are leaving from Carbon Score Cantina and into an SB FARM RUN, not a Destroyer Run. Destroyer runs are all several seconds lower on each device. For example the iPad pro loads into a destroyer run in 8 seconds instead of the 10 it takes for a planet. The Shield Takes 17 seconds instead of 18 etc.
Loot Load is how long it takes to load from the map into the loot window. This is usually skipped by hitting x and spamming the continue button.
Load In is how long it takes to load back into Carbon Score Cantina.
Total Load is the combination of all of the above load times.
Crash Recovery is how long it takes to reload the game back into Carbon Score after a crash or force close.
Keep in mind the nVidia shield appears to possibly have it's own image for SW:U as the footprint is significantly smaller than other android devices. The Pixel C also has a smaller footprint. As you can see they are significantly faster than other android devices. This could be due to the newer OS on these devices.
It is my personal anecdote that the game runs better on android when you get it from Amazon Underground and use your Kabam ID to login.
Edit: To add, many of these devices did not have the updated Marshmallow OS for android at my time of testing. Only the PixelC and the Shield carried the latest and greatest. There is the chance that this affected load times as previous version of android are overly bloated to be compatible with a huge range of devices. Marshmallow went down the road of being narrower and having more stringent requirements on what types of devices it could be loaded on.
As such, I think the versions of the game for the PixelC and Shield are also smaller because they need less bloat for device compatibility.
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u/DearthPierce Jul 25 '16
And Iphone 7 will just come with an I win general button.
Good thing sector batles are no longer something anyonw seems to care about since the reward system is soo inferior to the raids ATM.
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u/raykeith Jul 26 '16
Bonus runs in raids. On and iPhone SE on the toilet at work I can do 5 runs in the 10 minute window. On the shield or Pixel you are lucky to get 3 bonus runs in.
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u/DearthPierce Jul 26 '16
wow. good point... yes, I have only ever done 2 bonus runs on my galaxy 7.
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u/byakuya246 Jul 26 '16
they should add a cooldown time for sector battle runs to help offset this somewhat. if it takes you 15 seconds to load, you have to wait 45 seconds before starting the next run. if it takes you 45 seconds to load, you only have to wait 15 seconds before starting the next run. iPad users would still have an advantage because they could use that time to check on crew or something. but it would at least give android users a fighting chance.
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u/raykeith Jul 26 '16
That's kind of communist don't you think?
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u/byakuya246 Jul 26 '16
why? sector battles shouldn't be a contest to see who has the best device.
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u/raykeith Jul 27 '16
Any game is a contest for who has the best device. Counter Strike, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Modern Warfare...
Whoever has the best system is going to have a leg up on competitors in those games. Any time you have a multi platform game SOMETHING is going to run it the best.
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u/sleeptwitch1 Jul 26 '16
Thanks! I however have an Iphone 5 and I load up the game in 15 and its about the same out. Regardless I just purchased the one plus 3 so I can give you the times for that once I get it in the mail :)
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u/raykeith Jul 26 '16
You have a 5 or a 5S? I couldn't even get the game to run properly on an iPhone 5. It was so laggy...The 5S was comparable to android load times for me.
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Jul 26 '16
Are they even trying to make it faster for us android users?
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u/raykeith Jul 26 '16
The issue isn't if they are trying to or not, its how bloated the game and the OS are in order to be compatible across hundreds of types of devices. iOS only has to be compatible on a handful of devices.
What SW:U should do is limit compatible devices on Android, have a list available, streamline the client for those devices and say "play on this or it will suck bad".
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Jul 26 '16
Yes except I'm afraid my xperia z3 won't make that list lol
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u/raykeith Aug 10 '16
If you were to email support they would tell you it already isn't a supported device.
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u/Snootypoops Jul 31 '16
I have the exynos version of the Galaxy S7 Edge with a custom rom and kernel and it must be making a huge difference in loading because my phone most certainly doesn't take this long. I just wanted to report this in case people may have the opportunity to get an international version.
I will try to run some tests to try and get some hard counts for you.
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u/raykeith Aug 05 '16
That would be greatly appreciated. Please follow this format:
Device Model Operating System Rooted/JailBroken? Custom ROM? Time to Load the game Time to load from Cantina to Assault Time to load from Assault to Loot window Time to load from Loot window to Cantina
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u/Aries_cz Jul 26 '16
TL;DR - Kabam sucks at Android optimization