since yesterday's update my game no longer launches, it either gives me a prompt that says "battalion has crashed" or boots to a black screen and game no longer responds
my setup consists of the following
ASUS 980 GTX STRIX
intel i7 4790k
Asus H97 mobo
samsung 500gb SSD
the following error is what is copied to my clipboard when the game crashes
Fatal error!
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000
Battalion.exe!0x000000003FD7FF04
Battalion.exe!0x00000000411FA61E
Battalion.exe!0x000000003FD45218
Battalion.exe!0x000000003FD4A245
Battalion.exe!0x000000003FD4A34A
Battalion.exe!0x000000003FD50649
Battalion.exe!0x00000000422F43B7
kernel32.dll!0x000000007798652D
ntdll.dll!0x0000000077BBC521
ntdll.dll!0x0000000077BBC521
i have tried the following
verifying game cache
restarting
reinstalling the entire game
thank you for the help