Game saves issue

[WhiteLatinnos]

Hello every one,
I have a problem according the game save progress, I save my game manually and it shoes me that my save is there, but it doesn't appear when I try to load it. So, I can save my progress but I cannot load it because in the load section my saves are missing... Do you know how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!

[Darek871]

Originally posted by WhiteLatinnos:

Hello every one,
I have a problem according the game save progress, I save my game manually and it shoes me that my save is there, but it doesn't appear when I try to load it. So, I can save my progress but I cannot load it because in the load section my saves are missing... Do you know how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!

The most simply and effective save is with the bike option, to save quickly and safely.

[simon.pete15]

You can not save during a mission.
Unfortunately, if you do a manual save during a mission, the save system apparently makes you think you've got a save, you haven't.
During a mission, the game will autosave at certain points, so if you die, you respawn at the beginning of that stage of the mission. But you have to finish the mission before you can save.
The beginning of the game is ONE mission until you get your bike again. You won't be able to do a save yourself until you have your bike.
Once you get your bike, you can do a Quicksave at the bike or at a bed you can sleep on. You'll find these beds, one in every camp, one in every MMU and one in every bunker, providing you are not in a mission.

[WeirdScienceX]

Originally posted by WhiteLatinnos:

Hello every one,
I have a problem according the game save progress, I save my game manually and it shoes me that my save is there, but it doesn't appear when I try to load it. So, I can save my progress but I cannot load it because in the load section my saves are missing... Do you know how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!

Check in

%localappdata%\BendGame\Saved

and there will be a folder named with a bunch of numbers.

Inside their will be a

SavedGames

folder, check inside, are there saves inside? Normal ones are named slot0X.sav while those saved from a bike quicksave or checkpoints will be autosave0X.sav.

Check the date modified, do they correspond to when you made the last save?

If so then the game is having trouble reading the saves, it there are no saves there then it has trouble writing them.

Personally I would copy the whole BendGame folder elsewhere, then delete it, this will force the game to recreate it when you next launch it. Go through part of the game, maybe until after the Leon part, then quit, reload and continue, if it starts you where you left off then the save system is working. Now continue until you receive the bike at Copelands, then do a manual save at the bike.

Reload the game and continue or load the save, if it works correctly then the problem is fixed.

You can then try copying back the SavedGames folder from the original BendGames folder you backed up and see if you can recover your progress.

[SensualAvocado]

The issue I am having is that the game creates a new save folder when I launch it, only giving me the option to start a new game. I have to go into the saves, copy the saves from the "old" folder and paste them into the new one in order to get the game to recognize them. Then, the next time I launch the game, it does it again, refuses to read from the existing saves folder, and makes a new one.

[WeirdScienceX]

Originally posted by SensualAvocado:

The issue I am having is that the game creates a new save folder when I launch it, only giving me the option to start a new game. I have to go into the saves, copy the saves from the "old" folder and paste them into the new one in order to get the game to recognize them. Then, the next time I launch the game, it does it again, refuses to read from the existing saves folder, and makes a new one.

That sounds like a permission error, not sure how you would go about fixing it.

[Manicron]

You cannot save during a mission. True. But it really is worse: the game does not even save intermediate continue points inside a mission!

Assume you got into that infamous cave, found your way and killed that special Zombie and restarted when you left the mission zone because nobody told you that fleeing is not an option:

If your pc crashes or you don't have any more time and need to shut the game down: you can again drive your bike to the cave, find your way and kill that guy again.

There is one golden solution to this: deinstall this piece of something and never touch it again.

Also because: you either have an open world game or you have "Leaving mission zone" game but you cannot have both: it totally destroys immersion.

[T0nedude]

I despise games that don't respect your time by not offering a more competent save facility.