Is there a bug loading your mid-level saves?

[Outchaosing Cthulhu]

I notice that my game often fails to load the correct save file mid-level. I often get a completely different save file loaded. For example, I can try to load save slot 3, but I get a random save file loaded instead.

[Outchaosing Cthulhu]

nvm i read somewhere that the game is only saving at the start of the level. The devs should either fix this or advertise it a lot better because it's really weird the way it is and makes you think there is a bug.

[Trese Brothers]

Sorry for the confusion. We will improve the messaging in UI and are working on upgrading to mid-turn saving.

The game only saves at the start of any given turn. Even if you take a save action in the middle of the turn, it snapshots the beginning of the turn. Obviously, this is not what most players are expecting. However, we chose this route during Early Access to ensure 100% save stability, and during this time no update has ever invalidated a save game, and all features and content have automatically been added to all save games regardless of the saved games age.

I will ping back here when we turn on inter-turn be back and I hope you will take another look at that time.

Happy gaming out there!

[Zeel Ara]

It took me a while to figure out what was going on as well. I don't really mind it, but I do think the game might benefit from communicating more clearly to the player how the saving works. The most obvious place would be load screen tips, but those flash by so quickly that I can't ever catch more than the first few words. A weird "problem" to have :D

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by Zeel Ara:

It took me a while to figure out what was going on as well. I don't really mind it, but I do think the game might benefit from communicating more clearly to the player how the saving works. The most obvious place would be load screen tips, but those flash by so quickly that I can't ever catch more than the first few words. A weird "problem" to have :D

Thank you. we will also be adding it to the confirmation dialogs for load / save shortly.

[EuchreJack]

I just lost my save. Thankfully, I wasn't very far in my playthrough.

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by EuchreJack:

I just lost my save. Thankfully, I wasn't very far in my playthrough.

Can you please provide some context? No process in the game is capable of breaking your save game. Did you die? Or delete the file? Or accept a Steam cloud overwrite? Maybe you switched steam accounts or windows users?

[EuchreJack]

I was messing around with trying to reload the mission High Street so that nobody died on Hard Difficulty, then the game updated, then my save was gone entirely.

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by EuchreJack:

I was messing around with trying to reload the mission High Street so that nobody died on Hard Difficulty, then the game updated, then my save was gone entirely.

Ack, that stinks. One way or another we can help you get that. Save back!

Can you be really specific as to what messing around entails?

Can you check the save game location to see what is there?
https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/FAQ#Where_are_the_saved_games_stored?

Did all the saves in the game disappear or just that a single save game at high Street?

[EuchreJack]

So, I was able to find the save that I made afterwards.
I don't really recall what I was doing except that I was trying to reload the mission.

[Trese Brothers]

Whew :sweat: glad to hear it! We're pretty dedicated to no save every getting deleted or corrupted, so we chase these cases with fervor.

Thanks for following up.