LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review (Hellsent)
I am leaving this review here simply to show a fix i found and explain how it works in more detail for if other games have a similar issue or for people to actually be ware off how to fix it and why it's broken
Tldr/solution: in appdata\roaming\warner bros. Interactive entertainment\ lego star wars the force awakens\GUI3\Assets in there delete the file visitlego_offline_dx11 .TEX and it should be fixed
first i'm going to mention some other fixes i found and explain their flaws i still mention them because they lead me to finding the actual fix
Other fixes:
There are recommendations (notably in the steam community) to delete the gui3 folder entirely or to rename it but this only works to play offline due to steam fixing the files on launch
There is a fix where you simply remove everything in the gui3 folder without deleting subfolders this works as well as the fix i mentioned in the tldr it's simply a bit less useful and more time consuming due to there only being 1 actual problematic file
the actual problem file and explanation on why the other files are harmless:
The visitlego file is the one causing the game to automatically try to connect to servers and is the core issue due to the server not existing any longer it makes the game have an error and crash
the other files in the subfolders are fine and harmless (in the Assets subfolder those are simply links to websites and those still work and just open your steam browser: the dlc and season pass bring you to their steam pages while the 3rd one simply goes to a lego website)