Ever since yesterday, I can no longer login into the game. The process fails at the little update window that gets launched first before the actual game opens up.

I am playing via the standalone client from the website with my windows 10 PC.

When I double click the executeable, following happens:
- a little window with the title ,,Spiral Knights" pops up
- a bar gets stuck at 28% or 39% when saying ,,Verifizieren der Daten"
- after some time passed of this stage being stuck, it says something like "timeout after taking too long", and I am forced to close the window.

Note that I was playing after the ,,Forge Ahead" update just fine; and also at the day before the 2026/5/11 update.

Edit:
Just now when I launched the game another time to give proper feedback, it suddenly started normally after being unable to do so for over a day...

Well, this is strange, but I will still post this threat, since something clearly was not working properly before, for future reference.