Saves locked.

[DragonFax]

I can't play this. The saves it creates are "locked". Thats what it says in the menu. It forces me to start over at the beginning every time.

Obviously, I'm not going to play if I can't save.

This "feature" actually seems to be build into the product. It shows the saves, but labeles them as "locked". All of them, the auto-saves and the checkpoints. This is somehow a "feature" people would want. To have their saves locked so they can't use them.

I bought this game, volutarily, as a fan. And I actually _want_ to play it. Why are you punishing me for having bought the game Ubisoft? This isn't even the first time. Why do I keep falling for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[GreatShazbot]

Play until it allows you to save. The rocket part is NOT the end of the mission. Just like Far Cry 3 you can't save in the middle of a mission, and the game starts you out on one. Just keep playing and it won't say locked anymore.

[Quilliano]

Same thing... the thing is I played and could save, quit, and load before, so don't say I need to "keep playing" or something when clearly you don't know exactly what OP and others (I did a search and there are others having this problem on Ubisoft forums).

After updating Uplay and verifying this game on Steam (I also have the 50 missing files issue, as detailed in another thread on this very forum), I could finally start the game again, but now I get files locked... feel punished for buying this while pirates probably have less problems.

[Snorkel]

Originally posted by Sanic Hegehog:

Play until it allows you to save. The rocket part is NOT the end of the mission. Just like Far Cry 3 you can't save in the middle of a mission, and the game starts you out on one. Just keep playing and it won't say locked anymore.

Seriously? I played for 15 minutes, but, despite getting to several checkpoints, I'm not allowed to save this progress?

That's messed up. :mad:

[GRANIT Salvo]

I played for 3 hours last night, but they all locked. Have to play from the beginning. But those autosaves are not locked!

[The Jaguar]

Yup, same thing here. I've started the game several times, played a couple hours into it, and passed several checkpoints. Yet every time I try to continue, the game instead starts me over again AT THE VERY BEGINNING...tutorials and all. I mean, really?!? This game is a pile of $hit.

[Washington96]

Same thing here. Played for a couple of hours have a few saves, but all of them locked.

[Player 1 (Cosmo)]

The game auto saves at the end of each mission...

Try to check if Uplay has that cloud service enabled in the options menu and if so if the servers are accessible at the moment.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

and as others (myself included) have mentioned in various threads, you cannot manually save whenever you're in the middle of a mission (whether it's a garrison takeover or main-story mission) or side-quest

[Washington96]

Yes the game auto saves at the end of each mission, but when you come back to the game those saves are all locked. I understand you cannot manually save during a mission and have to complete it before it saves, but those saves are locked. At the moment I have to keep restarting the game from teh very beginning which makes it unplayable. I'll have a look to see if the cloud service is enabled.

[putergurl]

I totally agree about this game needing accessible quick saves, the requirement to finish the entire first mission before it saves any progress is ridiculous. Also lamenting that UPlay was a requirement to play; yes I know it supposedly tells you so before you purchase it, but it is by no means obvious or clearly stated.

If it helps at all, there is a way to skip most of the intro cinematics; press "Enter" to pause the cinematic, then you have the option to press "Esc" to skip the cinematic. There are a couple separate cinematics so you'll have to do this two or three times, but it's better than having to sit through them all.

[Kamil950PL]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/289650/discussions/0/624075482701055236/

From Steam Discussions about Assassin’s Creed Unity (it can refer to all Uplay DRM game swith Uplay Cloud support and also other Uplay games maybe):

Turbid TG1:
'Can't synchronize my cloud saves.
I was in Sequence 6 and now I might have lost all of my progress.'


pyradius:
'That sucks, I had to turn off the cloud syncing myself earlier and had lost progress, losing 6 sequences would suck pretty badly. Here was the info I got from Ubisoft:

"The cloud servers check file information when syncing and will update to the latest used profile. This information is synced to the cloud upon closing your game. Unfortunately, there is no way to manually download a savegame file from the servers.

Unfortunately, if your save file is not available in-game, there is no way to recover the data. I recommend that you disable the cloud sync feature via the Uplay Client options to prevent any future issues.

I also recommend that you use a third-party game save manager such as GameSave Manager in case the issue reoccurs:

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

We have forwarded similar instances up to our development teams for further review, and I apologize for any inconvenience."

He didn't tell me where the data is stored, but it might the the data inside:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames '

[Kamil950PL]

Possible fixes to retrieve saves(?):

http://steamcommunity.com/app/235600/discussions/0/34096318958893236/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/208480/discussions/0/611702631210062147/?tscn=1434325990