When i use the "Team Setup" option to assign/change teams for tag team arena, it causes the issue with WwiseSoundStep stopping at 0%, resulting in longer loading times afterwards since it waits 5 seconds before skipping this step. It persists until i restart the game.
The issue starts to affect the game after the following tag arena battle.
Edit: I am playing on PC, windows 10
Addendum: It bugs the WwiseSoundStep without changing / reassigning teams, by simply fighting in the Tag Team Arena a few times. I have game sound volume turned off, IIRC it happened with sound on too.
After suffering from this for a year, and seeing posts on this subject from two years ago (but not many), i assume the problem is a personal system/config issue and not a program defect as it would seem - otherwise you'd think it would have been addressed long ago.
I think the WwiseSoundStep procedure is called almost every time you do any click within combat - the pause, select/deselect opponent, autorun on/off. Once the procedure is called, i believe it is not closing properly, and leaves artifacts in memory for when the next combat is loaded. Very annoying.
I too am running Windows 10, Asus Prime B560-Plus CPU and GeForce RTX 3060 TI (pretty fast), and this delay more than doubles my load time for combat screens.
