Infinite loading in Co-op

[Jar Jar Doinks]

I have been attempting to play co-op with a friend, and we have had some serious trouble playing the game.

I will host a co-op match and invite my friend; We have learned not to have him load in right away, due to the crashes that occur when a cut scene starts. Sometimes we will find our way through the unpredictable load screens, but most of the time we just sit there waiting for the game to load with a message that reads "Waiting for client... Profiles initializing", where it eventually will load us in. (This is a very small sample, because we would just restart teh game most of the time.)

We have noticed that when you press start on the loading screen we can see the two Styx dudes, and when we move them, they move. Not to mention we can hear a sound when I press R3.

I could deal with this if we could save during our excursions, but in Co-op this feature has been disabled. Needing to first deal with the load screens, and then dealing with the multiple cut scenes, then starting from square one, makes a level that should take 2 people 10-20 min, take closer to and hour and a half. Just an option to turn it on if we wanted to would suffice. I know why the feature is there, but with the online how it is, maybe for the time being that would be a good remedy.

Has anyone else had this issue with co-op? Any solutions? Should this be something that we bring to the attention of the devs?