Loading screen stuck

As title says, loading completely stuck, no matter if i change settings, character, reset a character into the hideout/village, loading screen take forever (15+ minutes and still ongoing, even after changing shader options on steam and veryfying integrity files). no, i can't install the game on SSD but my HDD never had a problem for poe2 or any other game (also it's half empty). Any help? thanks :)

I experienced the same issue. My loading screen froze right after entering a new zone while I was in a party with one other person. It happened in Act 1, in the final zone called Manor of Count Geonor. The game completely locked up and I had to force close it. So far, it only happened in that area, but it’s making it hard to progress through the campaign.

Hope this gets fixed soon. If anyone has a workaround, I’d love to hear it!

>> maybe i fixed it, after 40 minutes of loading it appeared a message saying that the loot filter had a problem, took it off and now loadings appear to be much faster, still slow (maybe from server side) but appear to be faster. even for me it was the transition from ogham village to manor ramparts.