As of today’s patch, when I attempt to load a Monolith zone, about 4/5 of the time when I get to the loading screen the game sits there until I force-close the client.
Occasionally, it will load normally, (within a few seconds), but this is rare.
It doesn’t seem to be tied to any particular zone, I attempted one zone about 5 times, each time waited ~5 to 10 minutes, force-closed the client and tried again, then one time I loaded in normally. The the process repeated with the next attempted zone.
EDIT: verified game files in Steam, found one missing file. Resolved the issue.