Yea, i don't if its steam or the patch itself. But i was able to uninstall the game and reinstall in less time it took for the patch to try and update the game. Everything seems fine played for a while afterwards.
System specs Ryzen 5600x Mobo MSI Tmahawk B450 Max Ram 16GB DDR4 3200 GPU RX 6700 XT Latest drivers WD 500 NVMe Pci-e 3.0 Windows 11 all updates installed