After patching the game today, it no longer starts. I am only able to see the harebrained schemes logo but nothing else happens.

Is there any workaround for this issue?

update: if i wait long enough, the game still starts, the load times just became extremly long. weird.

another update: I can definitely say that the performance of the game became much worse after the recent patch. I get al lot of hickups and stutters regarding the frame rate. No fun to play.

In 1.3.1 the issue with long loading times is mentioned as known Issue and will hopefully be fixed. I have the feeling, my loading times of the game and between missions did increase, too, but the battlefield works quite good.