Game randomly is crashing and getting me banned because a "\citadel\pak01.vpk" corrupts midmatch.

"Fatal ERROR: Content file e:\steamlibrary\steamaps\common\deadlock\game\citadel\pak01.vpk is corrupt. Verify integrity of game files."
This seemingly happens randomly, it doesn't matter if I'm in the hideout or in a match, sometimes it happens when I'm just on a zip line, sometimes it happens when Silver dropkicks me in the face.
Every time however it is a guarantee that Steam WILL break after and be unable to re-download the file and by the time I fix it by restarting my PC and steam the game considers me as having abandoned the match leaving me with a ban.
To be more descriptive when attempting to verify files after or simply trying to launch the game both will stay stuck at 0% and will not move.

I really hope this becomes a priority soon because its only a matter of time before my bans are weeks long and I'm just unable to play.
 

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