CRITICAL ISSUE: Permanent crash to desktop

I recently wanted to try to use the Fettered Monstrosity spectre. After getting one of them and going to help a guild member kill Act 2 normal Jamanra, the game immediately crashes to desktop.

Upon logging back in, the game attempts to reload Dreadnought Vanguard, and it crashes directly to desktop again. I'm 100% down. Any fixes/workarounds?

URGENT

Also was in the party at the time this occurred, my character is also permanently crashing to desktop upon loading.

I also learned that my guild member friend can also no longer log in to his character with the same issue.

Looking at the LatestClient.txt in logs, I find the following:

01:20:37 63292171 d8012f20 [CRIT Client 25448] Error executing GEAL on Metadata/Terrain/Gallows/Act2/2_12_1/Objects/ChainBuilder_Anchor_Side [3221227199]: Expression passed to function gave an empty result, expected a location or object

Digging through the client files this was also found

2025/04/06 02:25:27 88831984 d8012f20 [CRIT Client 3692] Error executing GEAL on Metadata/Terrain/Gallows/Act2/2_12_1/Objects/ChainBuilder_Anchor_Side [3221227199]: Expression passed to function gave an empty result, expected a location or object

somehow the issue appears self-resolved. i can now log in as the character.

This is happening to me on Xbox series x. Crash upon loading into zone character is stuck in the dreadnought location.

Same issue

PC player

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2025/04/08 07:37:40 681728312 d8012f20 [CRIT Client 28660] Error executing GEAL on Metadata/Terrain/Gallows/Act2/2_12_1/Objects/ChainBuilder_Anchor_Side [3221227260]: Expression passed to function gave an empty result, expected a location or object

I was progressing, and I decided to buy a better weapon. After I bought it, I ran into my portal, and from this point, I crashed nonstop.

I tried different Video settings and turning off other programs that might be an issue (e.g., Poe Overlay, Overwolf), but nothing changed.

I tried File Checking and still nothing.

But the funny thing is I found Fix, I was playing via Epic Games, and I decided maybe From Steam would work and YES I redeemed Steam code to install the game, and BAM is working now.

same

Same here, had a crash to desktop during act 1 with my dawn of the hunt character. Every time I try to play that character, the game tries to load the clearfell encampment then crashes.
If I try to play my 0.1 character which has reached maps and is in the hideout, the game loads fine.