Accidently started Journey 2 instead of DLC

[MayZor]

Hi, I started Journey 2 because i thought it was the DLC....
Is there a way to load older game saves ?

[Clockwork]

You mean you went into New Game+?

If you didn't backup your save, it may be too late.

You can try this but no guarantee that it will work (assuming you're on Windows):

- Open file explorer then type %AppData%\EldenRing
- You should see a folder with numbers. Open it
- There 2 files there: ER0000.sl2 and ER0000.sl2.bak
- Copy both files on your desktop just in case
- Delete ER0000.sl2 and replace it with ER0000.sl2.bak (remove the .bak at the end of the file)

Now try starting the game

I assume "bak" means backup, aka. the previous save. If it doesn't work put everything back like before

[Markralf]

Well, you can still access fairly quick i guess? you can talk to the first guy to have the mogh invitation and stuff, but I don't know if you need to trigger Radahn fight or beat him before to access the DLC? If not, I can help you with Mogh, I am doing it right now, if you need well, i'm sorry but if you didn't make any backup you're done.

[Clockwork]

Originally posted by Markralf:

Well, you can still access fairly quick i guess? you can talk to the first guy to have the mogh invitation and stuff, but I don't know if you need to trigger Radahn fight or beat him before to access the DLC? If not, I can help you with Mogh, I am doing it right now, if you need well, i'm sorry but if you didn't make any backup you're done.

Yeah, you need to fight Radahn, but I was told you can initiate the festival to kill him by activating a grace at Leyndell, so it can be relatively fast too. Otherwise, there's a glitch to bypass the festival altogether

[DeathRow]

LMAO

[TERRØR♕]

Originally posted by MayZor:

Hi, I started Journey 2 because i thought it was the DLC....
Is there a way to load older game saves ?

you can get to the dlc by speedrunning the main game again sadly , u dont have to finish it tho , just kill radahn and mohg. should take about 3 hours to get there if u are efficient

[zab]

lol how do you mess that up

[Fijvect]

I had the same issue. Solved it though!

I've never in my life played a NG+ so I forgot to consider it's existence even, lol. The fact that this game doesn't create a new save file is a huge oversight imo. But honestly.... nothing about this game is easy or very nice to it's users, so why should this be different LMAO.

Anyways, I solved it by going to the C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing folder, finding my save file (I only had 1), right-clicking it and pulling up it's properties, then going to the "Previous Versions" tab. I was lucky enough to have a backup saved automatically by windows from a week ago, which worked perfectly for me since it had been months since I last played.
Restored that previous version, booted up the game, and was back to the end of the game again.

[Iron Reaper]

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[Sgt. Flaw]

Rough

Moghs pretty tough NG+ too lol...Radahns a cakewalk tho

[Orums]

you can use the steam cloud to download an old save depending on sync timing but it's really no biggie other than item collection, in which case...there's ways around that.

I was on NG+ when I started the DLC so as far as difficulty goes I can say it's really a non-issue bc of the scadutree blessing mechanic.

[Orums]

Originally posted by Fijvect:

I had the same issue. Solved it though!

I've never in my life played a NG+ so I forgot to consider it's existence even, lol. The fact that this game doesn't create a new save file is a huge oversight imo. But honestly.... nothing about this game is easy or very nice to it's users, so why should this be different LMAO.

Anyways, I solved it by going to the C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing folder, finding my save file (I only had 1), right-clicking it and pulling up it's properties, then going to the "Previous Versions" tab. I was lucky enough to have a backup saved automatically by windows from a week ago, which worked perfectly for me since it had been months since I last played.
Restored that previous version, booted up the game, and was back to the end of the game again.

clever little sausage