Lost my saves :'(

[Spongie]

Just reinstalled windows, assumed this had cloud saves.. went to continue... no more save games... sad times

[The Commendatore]

It has cloud saves. They're handled by Origin.

[Ka-mai19]

Originally posted by The Commendatore:

It has cloud saves. They're handled by Origin.

This. Origin should restore your saves.

[Spongie]

Originally posted by The Commendatore:

It has cloud saves. They're handled by Origin.

You're about to save my life!.. let me check :')

Update: My cloud saves in Origin were disabled for some reason. It's all over now :'(

[5ean5ean]

F

[Kage Goomba]

Rule 1: Never assume your save files are saved automatically
Rule 2: See Rule 1

Frankly for all of steam's cloud saves being "Annoyingly good" (like so annoying you can't restart some games for giggles) - I never figured it was backing up my ME saves - all because of the convoluted nature of the launcher.

Also - people who keep saying "origin handles your saves" - you assume its set to do that let alone doing it via Steam launched.

Not touching that in terms of how that works - its too convoluted as it is.

Your better off backing up your files by hand honestly.
Personally I didn't care too much as I'm running RAID1 in terms of redundancies and the OS drive is not on the same drive as my game.

In any case - you have my utter sympathies - all you can do is dust off and go at it again.

PS: last I checked - steam/origin saves are not entirely reliable either (ME LE) - and people haven't had much "good" to say about it.

[Pink_Mensch]

My Sympathies same thing happened to me. 33 hours in and my ssd decided to ♥♥♥♥ the bed, Didn't find the strentgh yet to slug through ME1 again

[Spongie]

Originally posted by Pink_Mensch:

My Sympathies same thing happened to me. 33 hours in and my ssd decided to ♥♥♥♥ the bed, Didn't find the strentgh yet to slug through ME1 again

Damn my dude, that sucks man... I'll give it another bash tonight. I was 13 hours into ME1

[CrumbleCat]

You only had 23 hours into ME1. That's like half a game. It could be much worse. Still, that's a stab right in the soul.

[The Commendatore]

Originally posted by Spongie:

Originally posted by Pink_Mensch:

My Sympathies same thing happened to me. 33 hours in and my ssd decided to ♥♥♥♥ the bed, Didn't find the strentgh yet to slug through ME1 again

Damn my dude, that sucks man... I'll give it another bash tonight. I was 13 hours into ME1

It could've been worse. Regardless, it's still annoying to deal with.

Edit: By the way, I recommend, even if you have cloud saves active, to make manual backups in a folder yourself from time to time or after each game session. That way, you always have a save backup on a USB or external drive, just in case for when you reinstall Windows or get a new computer.

[GoldKn3cht]

Many games save their game saves in the Documents folder.
That's why this folder is on the D partition for me.

A few games like to save their stuff in the Steam folder, so Steam is also on the D partition for me.

In the event of a Windows reinstall, I don't lose it.

[Spongie]

Originally posted by The Commendatore:

Originally posted by Spongie:

Damn my dude, that sucks man... I'll give it another bash tonight. I was 13 hours into ME1

It could've been worse. Regardless, it's still annoying to deal with.

Edit: By the way, I recommend, even if you have cloud saves active, to make manual backups in a folder yourself from time to time or after each game session. That way, you always have a save backup on a USB or external drive, just in case for when you reinstall Windows or get a new computer.

Yeah, I'll be sure to so that from now on! I downloaded a program last night that auto backs up whatever files I choose