Presumably banned for corrupt .pak file crash again

[mysteryamazon06]

I've reported a similar bug that has happened to me a few times now, I queued up for a match and as soon as it matched, the game crashed and gave me a .pak file is corrupt error message. Reopening game is stalled by 0% downloading, and verifying game files is similarly stuck at 0%. I did the same steps from my last post regarding this issue that seemed to circumvent the 0% stuff, but it sadly did not work this time, and I am unable to open the game currently. Once again, I will suggest that you amend your ban system to lower its 'escalation' of ban times based on games played without issue, as these issues occur fairly frequently it seems like, but also still offers a stiff penalty to serial disconnecters.

 

[mysteryamazon06]

after waiting about 10 minutes, I restarted steam and tried to verify integrity of game files, and it indeed did verify the game files, strangely despite NOT doing so the first two times I restarted steam in the first few minutes after the crash. It also validated Steam Works which it did not do the last time I had very similar corrupt .pak issues in the past. Game launched as normal, and surprisingly, I am ABLE to queue up for another match. I'm assuming it's because the issue occurred BEFORE the game had passed the pre-match 'waiting for players' screen stage as the crash happened between the hideout and that screen. if anyone has this issue, the method to fix it from my experience seems to be to exit out of steam, wait for a bit, reopen, verify integrity of game files, then open deadlock any other order or method seems to keep it locked at 0%s

 

[tinymeategg]

I have been having the same problem as you for all the times I have been banned, backing up my game files would resolve the 0% not progressing issue but now it seems like some update patched it somehow as that hasn't worked for me the past 3 times I got banned. We seem to have crashed at similar times as about 5 minutes ago my game got the .pak corruption and I now have a 5 day ban with 8 low prio games (I was working towards my previous 8 already and only got it down to about 5).

Gaben please save us.