I played the game for a bit after its early release today (yay!). Now, my computer isn't the best out there so when I forgot to switch off the space battle cinematics, I knew it was going to crash; it did. I load the game up again and try again. True to my being, I forgot to turn off the cinematics again (I was distracted by how smooth the game was running otherwise). I load the game up for a third time and the game freezes on the Endless Space 2 loading screen (after the Sega animation). This has been consistent despite resetting my computer twice.

A small window had told me to send the error logs to the devs. I've located them in my files but I have no idea how to send them and to which e-mail address. Any help on the matter would be most appreciated since this feels like torture. I'm still really thankful for the early release though! :D

Edit: After re-installing the game, I can no longer find the said files. Validating the integrity of the files via Steam didn't help either.

The battles mostly consisted of Sophon explorer ships and the pirate ships. In fact, the game crashed last night when the battle cinematic was turned on. I turned it off and the battles were resolved normally. In all three cases of battle crashing, I played as the Sophons and fought against pirate ships. I haven't tried any other faction to see if the problem carries over to them as well. Hope this helps.