You can get past the black screen by deleting the config file in the game's appdata. After that, it'll launch, you'll apply settings, and you'll get stuck on the "Defrosting Helldiver" screen because you can't access a server, and be stuck with a black screen the next time you launch. I'm having so much fun.

[–] Gandarf@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So glad there's a... Work around...? They got 1 week before I refund I guess.

[–] finthechat@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~Steam is allowing refunds even over 2 hours for this game, just fyi~~

Oh man actually take that last comment with a grain of salt, I am seeing conflicting reports on the Steam boards about that today, sorry about that

[–] Gandarf@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh! Good to know. Thanks!

[–] finthechat@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh man actually take that last comment with a grain of salt, I am seeing conflicting reports on the Steam boards about that today, sorry about that

[–] Gandarf@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Understood. Thanks for the follow up

[–] DonjonMaester@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

In the config file under appdata, edit fullscreen flag to false. Its one of the first lines in the file.

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you let it sit on the black screen, it will eventually let you in. Or to be exact it will eventually display the intro movie and splash screen, you'll probably see servers at capacity there and after some time there you'll eventually get in. Not exactly sure what it's doing on that black screen, but I'm guessing it's trying to talk to some server that's massively overloaded. I spent most of the weekend playing with friends, so I had to suffer through the wait multiple times.

[–] Gandarf@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

Hmm. I don't like the waiting. I have about 1.5hrs of playtime before I can get it refunded with ease. I'll just see what state it's in next weekend and refund if it's still iffy.

[–] ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Black screen is the first boss Servers are full screen second boss

Just have to wait for both

[–] arudesalad@lemmy.funnyname.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

I read somewhere that the server issues and the black screen is related