Do not shrug off responsibility onto someone else. Now, looking at this from the perspective of a freelance game tester I would highly suggest the following:ġ.
Validation said, 'All files validated.' which means. So I did my due diligence and ran Steam file validation. Please verify files.' Bare in mind, I just downloaded the game yesterday and started playing today.
This is a known issue with Steam patching. While playing with a premade group of friends for several rounds (about a dozen), I got an error message on the role-selection screen saying something similar to, 'File corruption detected.