Excessively long load times

This has been an issue since 0.4 but noticeably worse with 0.4b.

Before today's patch it would take like a solid 5-10 minutes to load after logging in. Some lengthy load times here and there but mostly fine.

Now even respawing at a checkpoint after dying or something takes an eternity.

https://imgur.com/a/g07knT8

It was stuck like this for several minutes despite ya know, having just loaded the map.

And now I'm waiting another 5-10 minutes for the town to load.

Happy to provide any system specs if it would aid in troubleshooting.