Stuck on "Awaiting response from MercurySteam servers" on game startup

[Nenotek]

Problem: The game starts up normally, but then it gets stuck on the main many with a screen saying "Awaiting response from MercurySteam servers".
It will get stuck on that screen, until after 10 minutes or so it notifies me of disconnection and then attempts to reconnect after I click "accept". Then the same keeps repeating.

I have tried restarting the game and the computer. I have checked my internet connection and every other software works just fine. The game also worked just fine before latest steam update.

Anyone else have same problem at the moment?

Next I am going to try to reset my router and see if that helps...

UPDATE: Router Reset did not help.

[Zeye]

same here, i played 2 missions after the update and now i am "locked out".

[Zeye]

woring again for no reason