infinite loading

When I try to start up the game on my PS4, the starting screen picture displays like usual, then the black loading screen appears with the BFV loading icon in the top right corner spinning, but it stays stuck on this black loading screen infinitely, so I can't even reach the start screen where it prompts you to "press x" to load into the actual main user screen.

It started happening last night with no change so far today. I've tried everything I could think of, including:

– Left it alone on the loading screen for about 1 hour (no change at all)
– Cleared PS4 cache
– Deleted save profile/data for the game
– Rebuilt PS4 database
– uninstalled and reinstalled the game
– started game, then disconnected network in PS4 settings, then went back into game (no change at all)
– disconnected controller while on loading screen (again, zero change)
– checked internet (it's working perfectly)
– while on loading screen, tried pressing each button on controller, tried holding "x", tried holding "start button" (zero change)
– tried booting game with different user profile on my PS4 (exact same thing still happens though)
– Restored licenses
– double-checked system storage, and there's still over 100gb of free space

It's strange that this happened starting last night since I could play after 5.2 patch released, but it randomly not working anymore only since last night seems weird to me. I posted this as a bug report too, but wanted to see if I could get any advice in this section as well. Any help would be super appreciated, thanks!