Thank you ever so much for alerting us to this bug! Did it happen every time you tried to start a new game?
We’re glad to hear you want to keep playing though. Hopefully the rest of your playthrough is free of major glitches :D
Yes, and I even tried to start a new game in a differant save slot. No dice.
Update: It seems that starting a new game after launching the game DOES work properly.
Thanks for the info - this helps a lot! We’ll investigate this further and provide a fix for the next update.