Greetings Exiles,
We heard back from the team and after their investigation, they concluded that some “hidden” files on windows might be causing the issue.
The suggested solutions are to reinstall Windows or reinstall the game on another partition.
As Windows might be creating ghost files inside the game location and those files remain even after reinstalling the game. These ghost files are not checked by using “verify files” on Steam as Steam is limited by file size when performing the verification.
Thank you all for your patience while we looked into this. Please let us know if you find any other issues.