Corrupt Files + Steam Refusing to Verify

[Treebeard]

I had this issue a long while back, and it had disappeared for some time. Unfortunately it seems to have returned.

The game will have a stuttering issue after being open for some time, and upon resetting and starting the game it will say the a file has corrupted and I need to verify my files. I don't remember the full string, but most often contains "map/citaldel1". However, when I go to verify the files, Steam refuses to recognize it, and the game stays locked at "Downloading: 0%". Within the past 2 weeks, this has happened on roughly 4 occasions with 3 resulting in penalties. As such, I am now in low priority queue and banned until tomorrow from playing the game. I have not intentionally ever left a match, and it really does suck to miss out on the release of today's character.

I have done everything I can on my end short of taking apart my pc and rebuilding it, which I will be doing shortly. I'd love to work with whoever I can to find what is causing this and hopefully see it fixed.

Specs: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, 16 GB Ram, AMD Ryzen 5700X 8-Core Processor

Match ID's in which this occurred (That I can immediately recall): 54539949, 54412813,

 

[pikokino]

My friend had this same issue. The only solution we could find was downloading the game to a different hard drive and going from there. Their main drive was C:, and their alternative one was D: (the one Deadlock was originally installed to, and was bugging out on), and after switching their game to download in C:, it worked flawlessly thereafter.