@Silas-Inservio-Pax I’ve now tested this during prologue. Deactivating the VPN during gameplay isn’t working in the long run. First it seems to be fine, but as soon the next loading screen appear (from the ship to the shore) the game gets stuck on a black screen only having the mouse cursor showing. Even activating the VPN again on the same connection doesn’t work. The only way to close the game afterwards is by killing it, e.g. with taskmanager.
So the game only works as long as the VPN connection remains active.
Update:
A VPN server from Norway is also working. Maybe it’s only countries in the EU that are affected by this issue?
Sadly my VPN provider doesn’t have a server located in my own country, but I think it would be an interesting test - if that would work. In that case it could maybe also have something to do with the ISP’s?
I see that @Cerim_Crazed also have this issue in the US, so I guess it has to do with Steam and some ISP’s? Come to think of it, I think I’ve heard of another game on Steam that required a “static IP-address” from some ISP’s to properly work. Could this be the case here and if so, why is this suddenly a problem on Steam?