Loading Screen Freezes (Checkpoint Issue)

I only started playing this game today and on the 2nd mission in Shanghai, I'm up tot he part where I lead those 3 people to the roof and to secure the heli. I reach the cutscene where that guy gets shot right next to the heli, after that in combat i died and instead of reloading me back at the checkpoint i get stuck on the loading screen and all i hear is the audio of the cutscene of the guy getting shot and then i just hear gunfire afterwards as that is when I'm in combat. I tried restarting and it still does it, its a digital copy as well havent tried uninstalling it, and I copied the save files to a flash drive; anyone else experience this problem and anyone know a fix to this?