[offline] cannot enter game with any character, stuck on character screen

been playing without issues since season start, right now cannot enter game with any character - button flashes grey and I stay in character screen, and creating a new one gets me stuck on loading.

have checked game files integrity on steam, all a-ok.

Hi, i have the same problem. Do u found solution for it?

Same here. After 1.2 i cannot play in offline mode. I am creating characters but stack at loading screen. I am avoiding online mode because of the lag. Plz anyone from tech support can help?

I’ve been burned by offline 3 times now: at proper launch (after getting out of early access), at 1.1, and now at 1.2.

At no point I’ve been able to even get a response from the team, and al posts either in here or in reddit were only speculations from other users.

This is it for me, I will never play offline again, and no one else should. Online does bring some issues but it never broke any characters for me.

Offline is not ready and I’m afraid it will never be.

Same thing for me today. Player.log says:
2025-05-09T09:39:03.1212161+00:00 Exception LE.Services.Login.UserServiceException: ReadJsonFromFile: Entity at C:/Users/user/AppData/LocalLow/Eleventh Hour Games/Last Epoch/Saves/STASH_0 format invalid

Player.log (271.3 KB)

I just renamed STASH_0.bak into STASH_0 and finally entered the game