[2021] game crashing after clicking play from client

Hi everyone! Corey from the Community team here. Thanks for reporting and sorry for the disruption. 

I just created a PSA thread here that essentially states that Epic Games and DE are aware of the issue, and that Epic Games is working on a fix. I will update both my thread and this thread once we have confirmation that the fix is live! 

As many of you have pointed out already, a current work around is to run the game in windowed mode rather than full screen. You can disable full screen mode from within the launcher. 

Thanks! 

UPDATE: as of 6:00 PM EST he fix is now live via the Epic Games Store. Please fully close your Epic Games Store Launcher then reopen to resolve the issue.