Reverting Saves To Previous Version - How To

[ManBearPig]

THIS IS MOST LIKELY A BAD IDEA, TURN BACK NOW AND BE PATIENT!

But if your impatient like me and want to roll the dice then heres what you do.

BACK UP YOUR SAVE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!

Download ExportTool (Google it, its downloadable from github)

Find your save game location and then figure out how to use the tool to extract your save file.

Open SaveInfo.JSON in text editor and change "Game Version" to previous version.

Figure out how to convert Globals.lsf and Meta.lsf into editable .lsx format with the tool. Change the version in those 2 files to previous version number, if Meta file has 2 versions in there delete the newest version section. Also change Build (In Meta) (Its near the top) from 400 to 302. Save both, convert back to .lsf.

(Changing the build is probably all you need to do but i don't know, not testing it cause its the last thing i did and now my save works so "shrugs")

Convert folder back into correct savegame format with the same name as the original savegame name. Paste into save folder from whence it came. Play game again and pray to your deity of choice that this doesn't come back to bite you in the backside.

BACK UP YOUR SAVE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!

If you can't figure things out with this small amount of help then its probably best you wait for the patch to come back.

[HozzMidnight]

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

[IvoryTemplar]

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

[ManBearPig]

Eh they messed up, stuff happens sometimes.

[MostlyPanda]

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over.

Steamcharts show, that during the time period where Hotfix 4 was live, the game had 400.000 players playing the game, roughly 350.000 through the ENTIRE Hotfix 4 timeperiod.

Pull your head out of the devs...

[Bobs]

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

Everyone who played that game in that window is screwed. That's hundreds of thousands. A few thousand...yeah right.

[Bim Fimberdim]

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

You must feel good trying to white knight for the devs. Note how you begin your assumption of the affected player count with 'maybe', as if you don't actually know the real numbers of affected users (you don't)

[masonclough55]

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

Your steam level is 93. You're in denial about addiction hypocrite

[IvoryTemplar]

Originally posted by Bobs:

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

Everyone who played that game in that window is screwed. That's hundreds of thousands. A few thousand...yeah right.

I don't think you understand that the launcher just needs to be running for the game to be seen as being played.

And it's obvious you don't understand that 400k people didn't simultaneously log off, download and install the patch, and then start playing again. Not even 350k did this.

Larian doesn't run dedicated servers for BG3. They didn't kick everyone off for them to update it and log back in.

You're wrong. It's just that simple.

[Scarr]

The $$$ cost in this is going to be astronomical as Man Hours Downtime.

Since the rollback, at least 200,000 players are unable to load their save game.

It's been 2 hours, valued at missing playtime $20 an hour.

2 hours x $20 x 200,000 players is the cost so far to this moment at the MINIMUM.
That is 8 million dollars of lost hours due to downtime because of the rollback, and that number is likely nearly double that to be honest.

[ManBearPig]

Lets calm it down a bit here lads and ladets. Yeah its annoying that saves are now incompatible (Hence why i went to the effort to "fix" that) but unless saves continue to be incompatible after the patch comes back, which is very unlikely, then no one has been screwed.

Did the Devs mess up the bed with this one, yeah they did. Should they have just left the patch in place whilst fixing it, imo yeah but I wasn't having any issues so thats easy for me to say.

Without knowing just how widespread the issues were we just don't know which was the better option, all we can be sure of is that neither were perfect. To be honest I'm more annoyed about the general state of Act 3 and the "missing content" but thats a discussion for another topic.

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Appreciate the post but Larian should not have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone that saved the game. They should have fixed the minor crash issue going forward, not by rolling back and screwing literally 100s of thousands of players.

[Kyzzer]

Originally posted by ManBearPig:

Eh they messed up, stuff happens sometimes.

"ahh ♥♥♥♥, I sold you an oven that pulls all your ingredients into a black hole, ahh I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up."

I personally wouldn't forgive that

[IvoryTemplar]

Originally posted by masonclough55:

Originally posted by Mike Honcho:

Tell me you don't know how to live in reality without telling me.

I'll go first.

You say 100s of thousands of players were screwed over. This isn't remotely true. In the real world, maybe a few thousand were inconvenienced. Nobody got screwed over. If they rolled back a bad hotfix that was literally game breaking for a very large number of people AND they made it so that nobody could ever play the game again? Yeah, that would be screwing over hundreds of thousands of people.

You? You just need to grow up. Maybe hit up a therapist to work on your rage and game addiction.

Your steam level is 93. You're in denial about addiction hypocrite

My guy, nobody takes high steam levels seriously since they had one of their sales events where you could gain levels like crazy. Valve knew about it and didn't care.

But you guys really do need to get some help with your rage and video game addiction.

With that said, I'm hoping your workaround helps people, ManBearPig. I don't care what Al Gore says. You're good.

[IvoryTemplar]

Originally posted by ManBearPig:

Lets calm it down a bit here lads and ladets. Yeah its annoying that saves are now incompatible (Hence why i went to the effort to "fix" that) but unless saves continue to be incompatible after the patch comes back, which is very unlikely, then no one has been screwed.

Did the Devs mess up the bed with this one, yeah they did. Should they have just left the patch in place whilst fixing it, imo yeah but I wasn't having any issues so thats easy for me to say.

Without knowing just how widespread the issues were we just don't know which was the better option, all we can be sure of is that neither were perfect. To be honest I'm more annoyed about the general state of Act 3 and the "missing content" but thats a discussion for another topic.

More than likely, the version number will get bumped up by, at the very least, a single digit to keep from causing additional issues. It will still be Hotfix 4, but it will be just a slightly higher version number.

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by Kyzzer:

Originally posted by ManBearPig:

Eh they messed up, stuff happens sometimes.

"ahh ♥♥♥♥, I sold you an oven that pulls all your ingredients into a black hole, ahh I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up."

I personally wouldn't forgive that

An oven with a black hole inside of it sounds pretty sweet though..

But seriously its not a matter of forgiveness, its a matter of do i have more important things in life to get worked up about and as it happens I do.