ISSUE RESOLVED!
I'm not sure if this fixed it for me, but the issue has been resolved after I attempted this AND applied today's patch.
Thank you all for the help and potential solutions!
Devs if you ever want someone to help diagnose bugs, I would love to help!
I attempted but it didn't change much, the loading screen lasted approximately 1 second longer than it had before the launch option was enabled. But the same issue occurs, failing in the same way. I posted a video above to show how the game fails.
I looked for any kind of crash log or file but none have been generated in either of these locations. I suspect that this game doesn’t recognize this as a crash and instead is treating this like reaching the end of the program.
I mean, maybe I just did an any% run of Deadlock. Put me on the...
UPDATE:
Issue Resolved:
Game now loads correctly
However! The issue happens again after my computer goes to sleep.
The solution is to re-login on steam again.
Steps performed to resolve issue:
- Logged out of my steam account, logged back in
- Updated the game again.
- Launched game
-...
Also struggling to Launch.
Launch > Valve Logo > First splashscreen that says "Loading" > immediately ends the process > back to desktop
Let me know if I should start a new thread.
Resolution attempts:
- Update graphics driver
- Verify integrity of game files
- repeat relaunches
-...