Guys, honestly, i can share the frustration with all of you. I was stuck in "Waiting for character to create" too, even 10-20 minutes, tried several servers and some of them worked for me. But really, most of you guys forget that this mod is STILL in alpha. That means, bugs are "features" to prevent that those bugs will be in a final version. We will lose our gear several times till release and will be faced with more major bugs but only to get an amazing mod. So yeah, critics are useful, even to say that this update is the worst update so far. But don´t hate on them. They don´t deserved it.