Anyone else having this problem? Since the patch, I can barely play Foundry missions. The Loading screen for each map takes 5-10 minutes, and often goes on forever, never loading the map.

The maps used to load within a minute or so.

I also am experiencing very long load times, and that's between maps within the same mission.
it can take on the order of minutes between map transitions.

i also had long waiting times...PLEASE FIX this Cryptic

Yes 5 to 7 min load time for first map. then 3 to 5 min load time for maps within same mission. You finally made a decent decision with the new patch to allow for only a 30 min cooldown so more people would want to play, but now with the long load times taking even longer than before it is not worth waiting and definitely not fun.

I didn't experience a 5 minute load screen, but a reviewer complained about it.

I too am having long load screens. Foundry AND any explore system ie delta volanis

I just checked, and yes, happen to my mission to.

I'm trying to create a mission and can't get the second map to load. It shows 40.05 then the "LOADING" screen pops up and the whole thing locks up.

Ive been noticing a serious lag in loading times since S7 as well, not to the 10m extreme but certainly 1-3m for some maps

In fact Im sitting in one of those load limbos right now, though I do find that partly if STO isnt the primary running process it slows down

I'm watching the small number (2.32) go up one per second...