This is honestly ridiculous. I've been attempting to trouble shoot on my own to no avail. I'm relieved to know I am not the only one who cannot:

1) Create a character: confirming character does nothing until I restart the game... suddenly THEN I see the 5 characters I created while attempting to create 1.

2) Finish the tutorial, or mission 1: if the tutorial continues I wouldn't know as I can't play past this mission. After waiting at the end of level for approximately 12 minutes the loading screen finally occurs... but that leads to the biggest game break.

3) There are zero missions available from the starmap regardless of what sector I go to... also once I go to a sector theres no way to return or progress anywhere else other than back to the main menu.

Not happy with this, regardless of price paid. Hoping a fix is inbound soon.