In virtually ever case of spontaneous corruption I've seen the issue has been bad hardware on the players side.


This is entirely possible, likely even.

It'd probably be a lot of work, so I understand if this isn't something you'd want to do, but it would be nice if the game checked the ...

On a completely vanilla install, suddenly all saves (manual & auto) became corrupt. I did not realize this until the following day when I tried to load said saves to continue my progress. No crashes occurred between the saves being fine and the saves being corrupt.

The error given is "Corrupt map ...