Opening scene, can't skip.

[Madjake]

Its getting a bit boring having to watch it over and over again.

[MajinKenpachi]

u can skip it if it has already loaded what it neeeds to; if u have mods it will probably load the whole video and more... but if u click when the .... is gone from bottem left u can skip

[Eternal Bliss]

you can add the commandline to steam properties to skip it, you'll still have to wait for the "black screen" to finish loading everything though.
i think it was -skipintromovie, but don't pin me on that.

[Jaq]

On an average PC with a vanilla install you should be able to Esc out of the video after the first few words. 99% of the time when people complain about not being able to do this, it's because they have some big fat mods installed. Those clobber the load time, so the video keeps running because the game can't go to the menu screen yet.

[Jolie Rouge]

Also, if you haven't, think about installing on a ssd, as this really helps.

[Digstar]

Originally posted by Jaq:

On an average PC with a vanilla install you should be able to Esc out of the video after the first few words. 99% of the time when people complain about not being able to do this, it's because they have some big fat mods installed. Those clobber the load time, so the video keeps running because the game can't go to the menu screen yet.

^This. Also there are three loading "dots" that flicker on and of at the lower left hand side of the screen that indicate that either mods or the game itself is currently loading.

On my mod load out, the cut scene ends at the part where Conan sinks his sword into the creatures skull. When I was trying out the Age of Calamitous mod, the cut scene continued to the end being a huge mod and my old HDD.

[Estevan Valladares]

Ok, sometimes you cant skip the intro trough keyboard or mouse. Why ? That is a good question. I never delve into the initialization process, and even if I did, most of its code in the devkit is hidden under the C++ engine that is not open to see.
However I do have something the game to start like "in background", sometimes even the windows "taskbar" still visible after initializing the game. When that happens, seeing the taskbar or not, ESC does not work, and only the mouse button skip.

But there is also the loading time which is not skippable, which might be indicated by three dark dots with a little light border blinking in the lower left corner.

If those dots are blinking, you cant start the game. That is the indicator something is loading. Mods that add textures of HD or 4K and mods that add new meshes of complex type, they tend to extend the loading time when they are updated.

But that specific thing has nothing to do with the "game world" as it is not loaded at that time, so if the mod only deals with things that the game already has (table mods, changing text or stats mods) then it is quite fast.

Map mods will however extend the load time a bit more.