The game just freezes up, becomes unresponsive, and closes. Every time. I try reopening it, only to have it load me back to where I was when the game crashed, thus opening the guild hall list and causing the game to crash itself every time I open it.
EDIT: Additionally, the game no longer has sound. I have checked my settings and there SHOULD be sound, but there is none.
You're not the only one who's experiencing this bug (the guild hall related one, at least). What you described is also happening to me. I'm having to manually close spiral knights using the processes tab (steam still thinks it's open but there's no window for it). I'll have to wait a while until it logs me out because the bug repeats itself like you said.
On a side note, the first time I entered the hall was fine. After trying to enter it a second time, I encountered bug. I would file a bug report but I can't type it quickly enough.
As a temporary fix, try pressing the esc key and log out before the area loads, then log in again.
Thanks for the help, Thimol. This'll do for now.
The first time I entered another guild's hall it was fine but after that even getting the menu crashes the game... or well, hides it so that you have to close it from task manager.
I'm experiencing the same problem here. My character is now stuck until the game logs me out. I know I shouldn't bite the hand that feeds me, but this seems like a bug that should have come up in QA testing.
Tried logging back in, well, I'll have to wait for the patch.
Yep, happening to me as well, only I was doing a Vanaduke run when the game crashed and now I can't get back in at all.
...yeah I'm aware it's not the exact same problem as OP, but it's somewhat related.
Edit:
Now that I've been booted from the party it doesn't crash anymore. 30 energy wasted
^ Pretty much describes what I've experienced