Same problem here. I will try the UI scaling work-around (I had to turn it up above 1.0 as well), but regardless - this is still a bug and needs to be corrected by the dev team. The UI scaling options set by the player are being incorrectly applied to the character creation screen.
I have also experienced some odd behavior with team creation. I cannot invite friends from the friends list via right click or the button at the bottom. When hovering over the grayed-out button at the bottom, I get a tooltip saying "you are too low level to join a team". This message is there, despite the fact that I am…