Black screen in game - AFTER downloading most recent patch

I played it earlier tonight fine, in fact logged out for the maintenance (when servers were going down), and now when I launch the game everything is black, but the cursor is visible. I cannot play the game anymore. What is going on?

[EDIT] May be hard drive slow down, on my end. Just a hunch. Will update later.

Something was verifying/installing the background, that I didn't notice. My game eventually started playing like normal, I think that was the culprit. Probably resolved.

Hello SturmChurro,

Thank you for keeping us up to date on this. This thread will be moved to the 'Closed Concerns' subforum as the issue has been resolved. If the problem returns, please create a new thread.

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