Honestly forgot about my post after my friend got spacelords working (my apologies) but as far as i know it was simply uninstalling the game more than once that helped resolve the issue for him it seems, hope it does help if others experience the same!

My friend plays on xbox and his name on it is Chief StorBjorn, the game so far hasn't let him through to the menu after the opening cinematic when you turn on the game; and because of that he hasn't been able to touch or see the tutorial.

So i wanted to help get a friend of mine into spacelords earlier today on xbox one. but when he finished his download and got past the opening cinematic he kept getting hit with this black screen that wouldn't let him through to play, his screen would constantly stay black, even after restarting the game the amount of times he did it wouldn't let him through. I've been hit with this black screen too but mine usually lets me through to the title screen after some minutes at most, but my friend just hasn't been allowed through it thus far. I don't know if others have had this issue but my friend is trying to reinstall the game to see if uninstalling and reinstalling would solve the issue.