Multiplayer Save Progress Lost

[Cencene]

Hello, I got this game w/ my girlfriend this morning and played for a few hours. We both made sure to save pretty regularly, and both saved before we got off.
Upon re-launching the game later in the day, I was able to host the game and continue right where we left off, however she had no option to press "Continue" nor "New Game" when joining me.

It automatically forced her onto a new character, having to go through the whole cutscene again & everything. All items are missing, and the save file is gone in her folder, even though it appropriately shows the time for "Last Modified" on the file being when we got off after saving earlier in the day showing that it should've been saved at some point.

Anyone know what a fix for this could be? Or what exactly is causing this and how to avoid it? Again, we both saved regularly and at pretty much the same time every time. I am the host, and have no problems, but she is not the host and is missing the save file completely. Let alone it just didn't provide the option to press "Continue" like I've seen mentioned elsewhere.

[underlines]

Originally posted by Vash:

If you can get one of your friends to go to their save folder (C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\LocalLow\Endlight\SonsOfTheForest\Saves\%Steam-ID%\Multiplayer(or MultiplayerClient)\) and copy the latest save folder (sort by date modified) from the multiplayer game and paste the folder into the same location on the machine that is missing the save file it will essentially make a copy of the donor character and their inventory so they don't need to start over. Had this happen tonight and this saved the play through.

Alright. And the host just hosts the game again, lets their friend join like the first time and continues the game. right?

[Vash]

Yeah just host and play as per normal, they will join as if it was their save file.

[Aswoopah]

Originally posted by Vash:

Yeah just host and play as per normal, they will join as if it was their save file.

Cant find this file, neither can my friend. any idea?. tried inputting the precise string that you had written and ive tried looking manualy through the files and never saw a folder called LocalLow or Endlight if that can help you help me? x).

[JeffroGymnast]

Copying a friend's files worked for me. Thanks for the idea. My game crashed and I hadn't saved in a while. Lesson learned, save more often...

[Rincewind]

this is not what i allways want to do... it´s 2023 ...fix this finally

[Vorshin]

Aye just happened to me and a friend, loaded up i loaded where we saved, he reverted all teh way back losing about 5hrs and several caves for gear.
It loaded a very very very early save or even a differant save of his from a differant game. It really narked him off that he now just quit.

I hope they fix this bug as well, as right now it is a multiplayer game breaker, nobody wants to lose several hrs gameplay or start from utter scratch again.

there is no endlight/sonsoftheforest folder in my appdata saved games folder listed

[Ryzilynt]

Does she think that sleeping saves the game? Could have been an honest mistake?

[Bananiel]

So i had this problem earlier today wher eit would load in an older save in our multiplayer game. What i did was to turn of steam sync, go in to the multiplayer save folder folder and then move all the old files in to a backupfolder start the game - this forced the game to use the only save file that existed. Then i could turn on steam sync again.

Not sure if this helps with your issue, but might be worth checking out.

To find the save files write %appdata% in the windows toolbar go to locallow/ endnight/saves - and find the multiplayerclient folder where your saves should be located if you have any

[Vorshin]

tried that and friend always starts right back at the beginning and we dont know why. pretty much lost all his progress but i am fine. we both saved then i logged out, came back and hmmmm.

Now i have sent him 2 saved files but he still loads back to (basically) a new character or one of teh 1st save games we did :( its narked him off and now he wont play MP mode till it gets fixed since if its going to lose progress like this whats the point, i have to agree with him too.

have saved like 20 times but only 4 saves are there 3 from today and 1 from yesterday, sent him the save when we came out of a cave (after obtaining harpoon zipline gun). and the save before entering that cave of 1hr before yet he still seems to load back with nothing even though he has deleted what was in his save folder so the only saves there were the ones i sent.

[ryannorgreeves]

Originally posted by Dappa:

happened to me as well
afaik there's nothing you can do to get that particular save back
however, what you can do, to prevent it from happening again, is to make a backup folder and constantly copying the save files manually (it's annoying ik but not as annoying as having to restart all over again lol)

Until we are sure such issues are fixed, this is the best practice. Generation Zero went through a bout where you'd just randomly lose save files. On a progress game where you're acquiring skill levels being busted back to 1 is pretty brutal. In sons, you acquire a great deal of items through various caves, so this can be just as bad. Save file backup isn't a bad practice in general, though I"m pretty bad about doing it myself.

[Daelle]

Just had this issue and it turned out that steam hadn't opened when I launched the game from desktop. Relaunched game after opening steam and my save file was there.
Don't know if this will work for others but it worked for me!

[Rincewind]

Originally posted by Daelle:

Just had this issue and it turned out that steam hadn't opened when I launched the game from desktop. Relaunched game after opening steam and my save file was there.
Don't know if this will work for others but it worked for me!

look at the date....
Many many many patches came out in a while...

[underscoreDeadz]

I'm happy to report this problem still happens with 1 week until launch

[Judicator]

Yes, this bug is still alive and well, my friend is constantly losing all of his progress.

[otakuon]

Does this same issue occur with dedicated servers or only peer-to-peer? I am running a dedicated server that auto-saves every 5 mins. Haven’t encountered this problem yet…but I have only been playing for a few days.