Cloudsave?

[PrimetimeCasual]

I usually play on my desktop PC and then during long commutes or business trips on the Steamdeck - why does PZ not have a cloud save? It is - checks calendar - 2025, how on earth did you manage to get this Deck verified but can't even sync save data?

Such a shame, I was looking forward to playing this again now that b42 is available...

[Armagenesis]

Is manual back up impossible for you?

[Neutron]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Is manual back up impossible for you?

Most people are too lazy these days to manually transfer.

But to answer the tech ignorance shown in the OP, it's a size limitation; PZ saves can be very large.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Games that don't have cloud saves are usually because their save files get too large to transfer before timeout or exceed the max size anyway. PZ has that issue. A few games have cloud saves that will encounter the timeout (e.g. Factorio).

[TheManiac]

The Manual Backup has a teeny tiny problem: It´s stored in a metric ***ton of files.
My ~40 Hour Save File is about 140MB, stored in about 53.000 Files, most of them in the maps folder. Packing them into a zip is easy and fast enough, but unpacking them again takes about 10 minutes...
Just copying the files will take about 20-30 minutes. So i get OPs intention, but there is no easy solution.

[PrimetimeCasual]

Originally posted by Neutron:

But to answer the tech ignorance shown in the OP,

Nice ad hominem out of the gate.

Originally posted by TheManiac:

The Manual Backup has a teeny tiny problem: It´s stored in a metric ***ton of files.
My ~40 Hour Save File is about 140MB, stored in about 53.000 Files, most of them in the maps folder. Packing them into a zip is easy and fast enough, but unpacking them again takes about 10 minutes...
Just copying the files will take about 20-30 minutes. So i get OPs intention, but there is no easy solution.

Unfortunate. I had a look at it - the amount of that many small files is a baffling choice, as that makes pretty much everything harder, even when not considering a cloud sync. Accessing that many files for a continuous save can't be performance friendly when compared to a single file. Oh well, it's only been in EA for 12 years, they'll figure something out... ;)


Until then I guess I'll use the old "buy a dedicated server to play solo" solution. Worked for other games, but I hoped I wouldn't have to resort to that. (plus, b42 isn't multiplayer capable yet)

I still maintain that PZ should not be Deck verified then - the whole point of that device is to continue playing the games you started on your PC while on the road.