State of Decay 2 crashes on startup

been playing this game for months and has been working perfectly until yesterday.

Now crashes on  the Press any Key to continue screen.

If everyone demanded their money back Microsoft would stand up and listen.

I had this problem in the first month of launch (May 2018), and fixed it with the region/language change solution. Now in January 2019 the same problem has come back, and nothing I try has worked. Can't be bothered re-downloading the game on crappy broadband if other people are having to download it 4 times every 3 weeks. 

Can't believe they haven't fixed this s*** yet. @Microsoft @UndeadLabs, fix your s***. It's s***.

I have tried all these methods, and have to reinstall every time I wish to play the game. It worked perfectly before the Zedhunter update. This seems to be an issue with the Microsoft store. Is this a problem anyone else is having?

Thanks OCeLot. I performed your steps, but that did not immediately solve the issue. However, after reinstaling and redownloading the game it worked fine. So maybe a combination of your steps + reinstall afterwards is a good combination / robust combination of steps to perform in order to get it working.

My hypothesis would be that after changing the language, you need to redownload the game, because then it downloads the game with a different language? 

So for everyone: follow the steps from OCeLot, if it does not work immediately, reinstall and redownload the game.

I had the same problem and finally after testing a bit of every proposed solutions **I've find the way to fix the crash (at least in my case).**These are the exact steps I've used (probably not every step is mandatory but I report them as I've done).

1. install and apply the English US language package on windows from settings
2. restart the system
3. click on the windows start icon and type "state of decay 2" for search, then right click on its icon->manage->reset app data
4. click on the windows start icon and type "wsreset" and execute the first result, it will open a black prompt, wait till it close by itself (it's resetting the windows store settings)
5. restart the system
6. open the xbox app, ensure you're logged in that app, it's mandatory for the game functioning
7. start the game, it now should work

If after all this the game works, you can rechange the system language to your preference but beware, you mustn't remove the English US language pack after the crash solving, cause this will make the game return to crash again at startup. The package must be present even if not applied as main system language.

An hypothesis I've got about this bug it's that the game notifies the achivements during the game in the english language, even if the system language is set to an another, so when the package is not installed in the system, the game tries indipendently to find the english strings, but failing, resulting in a crash.

Hope this helps someone