[Gameplay][Crash](sort-of) Match fails to load & random hitching when champions die across the map
[Update: played a second game; connected at the same time as everyone else with no issue. Reconnection from initial failed load seems to be the source of most of my problems down there.]
I have no idea how to report issues like this properly, but it's a problem enough that I will try regardless.
First match I've played since before the latest patch (5.3), and fortunately it was a Co-op vs. AI game, because three things have gone horribly wrong:
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The loading screens now start out pitch black, themselves failing to load for over a minute while a busy cursor spins endlessly. In the first two cases a dialogue box occurred in the background, invisible, claiming the connection was lost, and I had to kill the game the first time before finding the dialogue the second time (along with the one from the first time). My internet had not, to my knowledge, ceased to function during this time. The first of these two instances I originally blamed on my reflexive alt-tabbing during the lengthy blackness, however the second became stuck regardless.
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On the third game loading attempt, the loading screen loaded, after a short while, and showed my percentage at 95%, and claimed that no-one else was connected (as it often does when reconnecting, which is horribly wrong), and then went to 100%, and then sat there for minutes doing nothing. I forget if I alt-tabbed between 95% and 100%. I had to kill it again, because it was not accomplishing anything. After this I tried a fourth time and the game loaded successfully and with no anomalous behaviour. This is not the first time a match that has given me loading issues recently; I had one that gave me lesser issues during 5.2.
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Finally, while looking to deal with a pair of bots 4 levels higher than me, someone somewhere else gets a kill and the game hangs for over a second, maybe two, in a fashion I haven't seen since the release of the Rift's VU. It had minor hitch some 10 minutes later when something else died out of sight. None of the other deaths of champions caused noticeable freezing, and I do not remember what champion it was that died. I believe it was a bot each time.
I now worry that I can't trust the game work properly should I choose to play against real opponents.