That's all about all there is to it, I can play the first tutorial, and apparently skirmish battles also seem to work, tho I haven't done heavy testing on it, and I haven't tried the galactic mode thingie, but for whatever reason the game just refuses to load the second tutorial mission, it gets stuck in the loading screen all the time, and I don't know why this is, it doesn't crash or just stop, the little spinning thing still moves, but I've left it there for at least 3 minutes and it won't load, and I don't imagine it could take longer than that considering the skirmish battles and first tutorial mission take just a couple seconds to load. I was told to ask for help here, since the Steam forum didn't seem to be of much help, I've attached a DxDiag and, well, basically all the logs that are in my computer, if that's of any help.
I posted all the ones I had at the time, this 2 new ones should not have anything really different, and none of the software listed on that list are on my computer far as I know, maybe I could try deactivating Avast, but I don't imagine that can be the issue considering the first tutorial works fine.
Verify the integrity of your game cache: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335
Danm...that was actually the problem, I feel dumb, that should of have been the first thing I tried. Welp, thanks for your help pal! really appreciate all the patience, especially during Christmas, i'm sure you had other things to do, so, eh, thanks for sticking with me
You could tell by the server log errors... Code: ERROR Error parsing anonymous struct BrushBiomeSpec spec: EOF encountered while skipping whitespace