Are we going to be allowed to pause the timer during loads? They can be ridiculous. I'm noticing 10 second difference against other runners even though I have an SSD...

Yeah, the load times are horrendous and the even got worse with the Episode 3 patch. We've been looking into options with DemonicRuns, but currently the only way is to do that manually. For manual load removal, I'm not sure whether pausing the timer helps the person doing the manual load removal calculations or not...