This is the same problem. After the crash occurs the bug report program loads up but does NOT send anything. You can see it in the tray and no progress happening on the send. When you load the launcher again (after the crash) it does indeed get stuck on the patching process. I looked in the task manager and saw that the…
I have this exact same issue as well. I click Play on the launcher, see the Cryptic logo and a bar at the bottom (only about 5%filled up at the start) and then crash every time. I have Force Verify on in the options and still no go. Also the Auto reporting thing seems to hang big time and not ever send this data.