Did you try the "Verify/repair" option?

It also seems to be much more sensitive to graphics settings, now. (Or maybe it's just my rig ;-)

After using many mods, with no problems, this Pathfinder update gave me a similar problem to the one you described. I had a blank screen instead of the difficulty menu. To fix, I took an old back up of my non-modded version and overwrote completely my modded version (conversely, one could follow the mod instructions to remove) and did the verify/repair that Dashilchi suggested and had no issue after that - it was fixed.

I had this problem with the previous update. The fix that worked for me was to fully uninstall No Man's Sky, and install the latest version. I don't think you need to remove your saved games, but I can't confirm that, since I removed my save before uninstalling as part of my attempt to get it working again.

The issue was, I forgot to revert the game settings that allowed me to build bases anywhere... Now that I changed it, the game runs fine.... this one file has the Base building limit, default value of 20,0000 I had 9,999,999 LOL

the TKGraphicsetiing Xml readme file if anyones interested...

Also, I highly recommend everyone delete the txt in the Gamedata/pcbanks folder it should be the only one in there, it's purpose is to disable mods... After verifing the game, it downloads that txt file everytime, takes 5 minutes on a 200 MBPS connection, for a 5kb file... The foundation update added that file, but when you create a MODS folder you do not need the 3rd party app "No Man's Sky Extender" The game does load mods automatically over the default files.. as long as that txt doc is gone...I wish I could make gog galaxy not download it when verifying..