After installing the 0.7.0f patch today, I was able to open the game fine, but after logging in and selecting a character, the game hung on the first load screen and hard-locked my PC (ctrl+shift+esc and ctrl+alt+delete non-functional, had to hold down the power button to hard power cycle to get it back).
Did you try to load the same character both times? What class/build is it? There’s a statement being spammed in the log which we’re looking into but haven’t quite identified.
A log file of a character loading in normally would be nice for comparison (particularly if the character that crashed is working)