Game freezes during Intro Episode 1 Mission 3

[CaptainFuture]

Greetings
I am stuck at the Intro after Warp in Episode 1 Mission 3.
I jsut see my ship. If i reload again the savefile i see only camera rotating around the Dauntless.
I am playing as First Officer.
I had no problem while playing Captain but it was too hard at Station Biranu mission. So i restartet as First Officer.
And now i have this bug.
I already updated to patch 1.1
I have no mods.
Is there an option to skip the mission maybe? I dont want to cheat but if u have a solution i would be very thankful.

Sincerely ur Captain Future

[MLeo]

There aren't any major differences in difficulty settings, just the hardpoints of the enemies are augmented (think multipliers for strengths).

What you can do is go to Custom Missions (not sure if that's the real text, it's where you go to QuickBattle). Now, if it's a stock game, then the last, successfully, completed mission ought to have been unlocked. Try restarting from there.