Game Pass

[Shedding]

I am playing this game with game pass. So far, it is amazing. I'd like to actually purchase it in steam and keep playing it from here. A few questions. I declined the game's privacy at the beginning. Now, I am thinking the game is not showing me ladder stats because of this. Is there any way to see ladder stats in steam and can I copy my saved file to steam if I purchase it here?

[OlMaltelO]

Yes, leaderboards require sending data. If you just want to read them you can simply check them here on the steam community tab by clicking on „all“ and then „global leaderboards“ :)
You should easily be able to copy your save. Just need to find it. Start a new game on steam, quit the game and paste your old savefile into the existing data in C:/users/USERNAME/Appdata/locallow/awakenrealms/tainted grail/STEAMNUMBER/saved/rogue/slot1 … or something along those lines :)

[Shedding]

Thank you Thomy, I am wondering if I should even pay the extra money to get it on steam LOL. I really like the game.

[quidnunc]

what about moving from Steam to gamepass? was playing on Steam with family sharing but didn't want to block brother from playing Rocket League so I switched to Game Pass, however, moving the steam save to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Awaken Realms\Tainted Grail\Microsoft\ or Microsoft\backups doesn't seem to work and it just loads the new save (unsure of where it exists)

[OlMaltelO]

Originally posted by quidnunc:

what about moving from Steam to gamepass? was playing on Steam with family sharing but didn't want to block brother from playing Rocket League so I switched to Game Pass, however, moving the steam save to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Awaken Realms\Tainted Grail\Microsoft\ or Microsoft\backups doesn't seem to work and it just loads the new save (unsure of where it exists)

you need to figure out where exactly the savefiles for Gamepass get stored.
and make sure you start a new savegame on Gamepass, before you overwrite that you newdata with the old one, because the game needs to write a character savegame in a different location

[quidnunc]

That's the problem. I couldn't find it. Is there a specific file name(s) I can search for? It exists somewhere because it's loading the new save

Edit: searched for passive_progress.data, data_bundle.data but only old ones show up.. thinking maybe it's in some protected directory due to how game pass works

[OlMaltelO]

Originally posted by quidnunc:

That's the problem. I couldn't find it. Is there a specific file name(s) I can search for? It exists somewhere because it's loading the new save

I cant tell you where exactly that is, i dont have gamepass and nobody has confirmed its location :) i would assume it’s somewhere in the AppData folder, there should he a Tainted Grail folder that has a few subfolders (something GP Related-> saved->RogueMode->Slot1). The files you‘d be looking for in there are quick_save.data progression.data and player_fog.data, I think? Not totally sure, have no access to them RN

[OlMaltelO]

Since its windows, I could also imagine them being in users/USERNAME/documents/ and then something like games, awaken realms, Tainted Grail :D

[Friends with Benedicts]

Gamepass savefiles are protected and you cant move them. I know, it's microsoft windows level of stupidity. As much as I enjoy the affordable price of gamepass, it has some horrible features. That's why I'll never buy any game on microsoft store front or game pass.

I discovered that the hard way with dead cells. I did found the save file folder, but i could not copy, move e delete it. Not even with administrator rights.

[quidnunc]

yeah I restarted the game. Annoying but I had only finished the game once so not very endgame.

[BdaLimey]

I think I've found the location of the Game Pass files - for me they were in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\ARDigitalsp.zo.o.TaintedGrailConquest_h53sa8gawx63c\SystemAppData\wgs\00090000016526E3_000000000000000000000000737DE050\7CDF11F98B9A4DE6A48C92501D52B6FF, although the names of those last two directories may be different for you (and you may need to have hidden items visible in Windows Explorer).

There are four files in that directory: "container.213" and three files with cryptic names that are just a string of alphanumeric characters. One is 89KB, the second is 126KB and the third is 417KB. I'm guessing they may be "quick_save.data", "progression.data" and "player_fog.data" that @Thomy013 mentioned above, and could just be copied to the Steam directory and renamed (I verified I can copy them out of that directory just fine). However I don't know which would be which (and this would only work if GP hasn't also encrypted the contents as well as obfuscating the names). The timestamps on the second and third files are the same and the time on the first file is about 15 minutes earlier. All date from the last time I played the game.

Would anyone with access to the Game Pass and Steam versions be able to use this info to see if you can get your GP files working in Steam? I'll gladly pay for the Steam version and move my files over if I know this will work, but I'm hesitant to do it otherwise as I'm a pretty long way into the game now.

[MillerL1te14]

I got it working. Your comments were pretty much spot on. For me quick_save.data was always the largest file and was encrypted, quick_save_fog.data was always roughly 18 KB, passive_progress.data was a human readable JSON file around 400 KB, and data_bundle.data was an encrypted file around 100 KB.

Saved/PlayerPrefs.data is human readable so should be easy to figure out, as is Unsynchronized/PlayerPrefs.data. The files under the Backups folder look to be identical to Saved/RogueMode/Slot1/data_bundle.data and passive_progress.data, so you can figure those out based on file size.