Just shut down the PC and cold booted, game is still on "processing" -- unable to load any saves. The only option to play the game at this point is for me to create a brand new world.
It seems like the game is trying to pull data for the shared world even after restarting, which won't allow it to begin loading a local save, so it gets stuck. This must be somehow stored in the files because it opens every time stuck on "processing"
I created a third singleplayer save but was unable to load back into it after exiting to the main menu, or any others.
Restarting the game did not solve the problem either. I verified file integrity on steam and everything came back ok.
Thanks for reading