I created two characters. Both just locked up on a scene near the starting area in full daylight with a loud fountain sound of some sort. No view of any characters. Killing the process and restarting showed them in the menu and I could run the game with those chars after that.
Lovely sunrises. Rising from the South. Does the sun do that?
No NPCs/Mobs yet. Hope that's a server thing and not a wait-for-a-patch thing but I would note that in the server going back up hooplah to avoid bad press from grumpy gamers.