Save game tied to Steam User ID?

[Nailfoot]

My son played the game offline for a bit, now I've bought the game for him.


However, I cannot copy his progress to his steam I'd. I either get a corrupted save file message or a loading failed message.

Has the game hashed your steam Id into the save file??

[Sir Duckyweather]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Has the game hashed your steam I'd into the save file??

Another person seems to share this thought.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1007040/discussions/0/1640916564835158983/#c1640916564837416731
It's a slightly different topic about sharing save files but similar enough that it's probably bound by the same restrictions. I didn't see anything in there that could help, unfortunately.

[Nailfoot]

Oh well. He is starting over as I type this. I reckon the save files could be hex edited but the possibility of causing other bugs makes that not worth it.

[Nikke]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Oh well. He is starting over as I type this. I reckon the save files could be hex edited but the possibility of causing other bugs makes that not worth it.

I so badly want to like the EDF developers, but charging 60 dollars for a PC game? Going out of their way to make sure people cant regain their progress THEY WORKED FOR? (apparently there is code in different parts of the game that ensures you are using the same steam ID causing any sucesfull save transfers to bug out anyways)

What is the point of this? To get players to start from square one and to hate your effing guts? Good work

This is why i dont like japanese games, they take everything so seriously. Whenever someone discovers an exploit in black desert online the developers basically write 10 page long novel on how they have failed us. it seriously looks like a suicide note. Chill the hell out freaking weirdos. THESE ARE JUST GAMES

Wow, shame on those developers for not thinking about the poor pirates not being able to transfer saves. Actually, I doubt it was one of their priorities.

Nobody's making you buy the game.

[RandalMcdaniel]

Originally posted by Nikke:

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

I so badly want to like the EDF developers, but charging 60 dollars for a PC game? Going out of their way to make sure people cant regain their progress THEY WORKED FOR? (apparently there is code in different parts of the game that ensures you are using the same steam ID causing any sucesfull save transfers to bug out anyways)

What is the point of this? To get players to start from square one and to hate your effing guts? Good work

This is why i dont like japanese games, they take everything so seriously. Whenever someone discovers an exploit in black desert online the developers basically write 10 page long novel on how they have failed us. it seriously looks like a suicide note. Chill the hell out freaking weirdos. THESE ARE JUST GAMES

Wow, shame on those developers for not thinking about the poor pirates not being able to transfer saves. Actually, I doubt it was one of their priorities.

Nobody's making you buy the game.

who is a pirate? I was calling him a pirate (he clearly owns the game). You couldn't pay me to pirate this game lol i would have to start from scratch, no inferno difficulty unlocked... no dlc.. and do all that work to have it erased again when i buy the real pc version when it goes on sale? hmmm tempting

so i guess yeah maybe it is a good anti piracy measure lol

[RandalMcdaniel]

Also theres no way to invoke anti piracy through save files.. That would imply there are different versions of the game.

This is about people who own the game legitimately not being able to transfer their saves

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

Also theres no way to invoke anti piracy through save files.. That would imply there are different versions of the game.

This is about people who own the game legitimately not being able to transfer their saves

Yeah< I actually have two copies of the game. I am completely anti-pirate!

Just bummed about the save file locking.

[Death Korps of Krieg]

you could also gift your steam account to your son, and make an new steam account yourself and start over :-)

[ImHelping]

EDF 5 is basically like, their second PC port ever? For what is practically an indie dev.

Which makes how overall decent the port is that much more impressive.

If this was a Souls Game people would be bending over backwards to excuse any number of insane porting issues that make anything EDF coughs up a delightful walk in the park by comparison.

[Mobius One]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Oh well. He is starting over as I type this. I reckon the save files could be hex edited but the possibility of causing other bugs makes that not worth it.

If it's just for the weapons then it's in fact can be hex edited safely.
Source: I tried.

[Cop Unit 12]

The company that made this game is a AA or A company. They don't have the resouces to make save file sharing across platforms. Along with Sony being really REALLY scumy with that stuff. EDF 4.1 was the first game that got onto a more main stream view point due to youtubers enjoying the game.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by AKA Mobius One:

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Oh well. He is starting over as I type this. I reckon the save files could be hex edited but the possibility of causing other bugs makes that not worth it.

If it's just for the weapons then it's in fact can be hex edited safely.
Source: I tried.

It was actually more for the levels, so he would not need to repeat the same levels again.

[Kra]

Wasn't hacked saves that corrupted others saved games in the coop in 4.1 a big issue? Maybe, just maybe this is something to help mitigate that?

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Originally posted by AKA Mobius One:

If it's just for the weapons then it's in fact can be hex edited safely.
Source: I tried.

It was actually more for the levels, so he would not need to repeat the same levels again.

I think in part its to prevent Cheating via file share. Its more likly a Co-op feature then an offline one. If my friends want to play and i just give them my save to skip the levels, or some random guy that cheated in 1mil armor and all the guns puts his on a download site.....

And im pretty sure Kra got it right in that hackers did cause some problems in the last game.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

It was actually more for the levels, so he would not need to repeat the same levels again.

I think in part its to prevent Cheating via file share. Its more likly a Co-op feature then an offline one. If my friends want to play and i just give them my save to skip the levels, or some random guy that cheated in 1mil armor and all the guns puts his on a download site.....

And im pretty sure Kra got it right in that hackers did cause some problems in the last game.

Yep, I get it. No worries as he was only a few hours in anyway. But now we are both doing Borderlands runs again in anticipation of BL3 in a month!

[Mobius One]

Last i remembered it's not

Originally posted by Kra:

Wasn't hacked saves that corrupted others saved games in the coop in 4.1 a big issue? Maybe, just maybe this is something to help mitigate that?

Did 4.1 allow save files to be transfered freely?
Last i remembered it's not because of the savefile that does it. but rather the trainer the host used in the session you played with,stuff like rapid fire and unlimited ammo, auto loot stuff