Hi all, I hope this is the right place to put this.

I'm a new player to the game and I've come across an issue where I boot up the game from steam and when I click the "Log In" button on the left, it loads the character creation screen only to quickly boot me back to the main screen with the message: "Status: Not Connected to Server - Last Error: Connection Lost". In the output log I noticed the line: "Network state is CreatingCharacter but actually we're not connected! OUT OF SYNC!" and I assume this is the issue, but here is the log: https://pastebin.com/WBZdPaZZ

The line I am referencing above is at line 181. I have tried reinstalling the game and restarting steam but to no avail.