.pak file corrupts after npcs Yell at the Mounds! (Game keeps Crashing at the Mounds)

As Multigun has suggested, ensuring that the correct C++ redistributables are installed and updated has helped several users resolve this issue, and to further clarify this is not something that we can fix on our end as the game will always rely on these files.

Please follow the steps provided in this thread and let us know if it helps.