CANT EXIT TO CHARACTER SELECTION/////LOGIN TIMEOUT

After playing for a while ill decide to change characters for whatever reason, when i select to exit to the character selection menu the game stays in a suspended state whilst in my hideout or any town.
I do not end up exiting to the character selection and am unable to do anything, I have to shut the game down via task manager or ALT+F4.

After this happens I reboot the game only to find i cannot login, the login button becomes grey and will eventually time out, if i try the login again the same issue arises with it being grey and timing out.

If i played 10 different times today this would occur at least 8 out of those 10 times.
The only fix ive found is logging into poe1, creating a new character and getting to town, then i log out of poe1 and log back into poe2 with no login time out, this works every time however it does not work if i select an existing character in poe1 or create a new character without reaching town.

After using this fix ill login to poe2 with any of classes and then i will experience the same cycle if i try to change character again.

This is becoming depressing tbh

PC, Standalone client or Epic or Steam?

I have both but only ever one installed at once, this happens on both clients.