I know right, same here- thought folks might enjoy the fruits of my frustrations. Glad you are able to play now, the community is what makes this game great after all.
The firewall does nothing, look for "Safe Files" under there allow access for the program to make changes in your system (to write save files) this fixed my issue.
I think I may have found a fix here, BitDefender was the issue. Turning it off or disabling it did not work but allowing the software to make changes in the application access folder seemed to do the trick. Excited to be able to finally play!
The game has a bug where it does not save no matter what I do. I start the game and it mostly runs fine (except for the tutorial failing ~5 times and the character loading screen failing ~10 times). The majority of the time the game failed when I tried to save. "Save", "Save as" and "Save and...
The same issue for me, no matter what I do, what faction or build I go with the game fails withing 5 min of play. I also couldn't get one game to save, i tried to "save", "save as" and "save and exit" all options lead to the game crashing. Not sure whats going on but this is massive bug and needs to be fixed asap.
For the love of everything holy to the PC Gaming community, please, please, please!!! let me have at this game!!! Have been waiting sooooooooo long!!! I need a bump!