Ive lost everything... this is just stupid

[PSYKO]

today i eagerly bought the new dlc, did the usual thing of removing any mods i had and still had issues launching it so i did the full safe start thing and eventually got the game to start, it was the mod.io folder just existing in my local folder

however now when i start im back at 0. i had unlocked virtually everything and had s tiered several missions. now im back at the gas station with nothing

why.

why the actual heck is all my stuff, all my progress gone. i understand that several files were deleted with the safe start but this game has steam cloud, why is the progress and unlocks not stored there

what is the point of playing this game if every time a small issue happens your set back to zero

you have steam cloud, put the progress in there so if you have to safe boot you don't lose your progress, or put the progress somewhere that it doesn't get fraged when you do a safe boot, i wish id known this was going to happen, i wouldn't have safe booted and i would have done a back up.

Too late for that now tho, the safe boot dosent even move the files to the recycle bin, just straight up destroys the files, so even if you accidentally hit it your screwed

please consider changing the system, the current one is not good

[PSYKO]

no unfortunately, it was crashing out at the first logo, before the text appeared, it was CTD with error report screen coming up, i did the steps laid out in another post from the devs, after doing that it still crashed so i went to... c/users/public and removed the mod.io folder, once i did that i wound up getting in but back at 0, a friend of mine said he had the same thing happen after he did the same "safe mode" start. safe mode bascially deletes everything youve ever done in the game in hopes of getting it to work. you are also given the option to delete mods and delete another option, sorry cant remember the wording, when you get the error reporter, i also did both of these

and given that your saved games/progress/unlocks etc resides here...
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\ReadyOrNot\Saved\SaveGames...
which is one of the directories that gets nuked as part of the safe start but crucially is not connected to steam in any way

as soon as you hit that launcher option (or the error/debug reporter option) your progress disappears and cant be retrieved by re syncing the cloud save, because is does not go to the cloud, and its not moved to the recycle bin either it just turns to dust,

so unless you go to C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\ReadyOrNot\Saved\SaveGames and do a backup, which is not mentioned in any of there guides or help, if you hit that button, your starting from scratch

[SkebbZ]

There are two safe modes, one of them also purges saves. So yes, you are correct.

[PSYKO]

Cool, good to know, so the next question is why isnt there a backup of the file either

In the cloud or
Locally on your computer either
1) Automatically backed up each time you play
2) Created before you wipe the files
3) instructions where to go and how to create a backup

Along with my progress and unlocks ive lost 150 hours of time and the will to ever bother with this game again

No backups of youre progression through the game is just dumb

[NaCl]

Yes, I had that happen to me after I did my first full S iron man clear. Lost everything. I had to redo, and just managed to finish that a week or so back. If I ever get the "delete everything" bug again, I'm done with the game.

[Hairy Mouse]

Yeah, this happened to me, too. Not this time, but some prior update. I was on like mission 8, and all the previous ones now said "unresolved" when i booted it back up last week. I can still continue where I left off, and am on like mission 10 now, but since you only get completed missions in quick play, i only have mission one available, then mission 8 and mission 9. I had replayed those missions until S rank, and now i gotta go back and re-do all the first 7 missions. So, my progress wasnt actually "deleted" since i still had the latest mission available, but my score was all deleted and i guess TECHNICALLY my progress, but I could just leave those missions and continue if im not worried about quick play or unlocking gear. Also, i can technically still use my now locked gear by loading a loadout. it bypasses the lock, but i only had one saved...

Some of the gear i had equipped is ON me, but shows as locked. so If i changed it i couldnt put it back on. The new update changed all my gear, so now my stuff is locked again. Oddly, it also equipped me with DIFFERENT gear that i NEVER had unlocked in the first place. I also cant even use the new heli cam, cause just like any other PiP screen, it displays at like N64 level graphics. it's like 32-bit pixellation to where i cant even tell wtf im looking at with the heli, team cam, or mirror tool. Its especially jarring when im playing at 4k max settings for the rest of the game. Now my gear is all screwed up too, along with my mission completion. Ended up just turning the game back off. Kinda regret even buying the new DLC, but what the hell, it was only 10 bucks anyways. no biggie.

[PSYKO]

Originally posted by NaCl:

Yes, I had that happen to me after I did my first full S iron man clear. Lost everything. I had to redo, and just managed to finish that a week or so back. If I ever get the "delete everything" bug again, I'm done with the game.

Im at that stage now, literally wasted 150 hours of life on it, could have been doing something else, so thats what im going to do, something else

[Wolfmann Mike]

Ouch...

Clean install of your Graphics Drivers aren';t enough;

Clean install of a Major Update.

[A Lamp]

I had to this happen to me too when I bought the last DLC, I had mods and the game wouldn't start so I was forced to do the safe start and lost everything. What pissed me off even more was I had to go through the whole campaign again just to play the DLC levels. It was very annoying.

[PSYKO]

While bad that its happned to others im pleased im not the only one

Its almost like this is an issue the devs should look at fixing

[JohnB]

Glad im not the only one. My progress just got wiped for the 4th time. About to delete the game.

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by White Devil:

Glad im not the only one. My progress just got wiped for the 4th time. About to delete the game.

Make sure you are not doing things like using the launch option to clear mods, it is mods and save data, which means all your progress. Otherwise the only other case where you lose your progress should be sometimes when you crash. Make sure you are also looking at the correct gamemode if you are talking about map progress only.

You can also create a backup of your save to be safe, it is somewhere in %localappdata% > Readyornot > savegames

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