Restarting campaign

[Gregory House]

Hi all.
Is there any way i can restart the whole game from the start?
Thanks.

[pRaX]

What do you mean?

[mayrc]

What the reason?

[Gregory House]

Originally posted by pRaX:

What do you mean?

Like progression, cutscenes ,dialogues etc.

[Cannonball]

I don't think that there is any cutscenes. if you mean logs and lore infromation from NPC - you can read it in the journal or ask npc again.

[mayrc]

Ahh ok I understand. Sadly there ist a way to reset it totally. Even reinstall will use your steam account and save your progress

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Tried deleting the save?

Open start menu : in the search box type "run" hit OK/enter to open it.

Paste this in : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames

Hit OK again, Delete the files inside.

Don't forget to back up the saves in case you want to revert.

[scribd22]

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™ ︻デ =ー:

Tried deleting the save?

Open start menu : in the search box type "run" hit OK/enter to open it.

Paste this in : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames

Hit OK again, Delete the files inside.

Don't forget to back up the saves in case you want to revert.

I have the game installed. The main menu shows no option to "start new campaign" only "Continue".
I followed your instructions, above. Windows Explorer says "not found".
I tried looking inside the Aliens game folder. NOTHING is named ".sav"

[Psycho]

Originally posted by scribd22:

I have the game installed. The main menu shows no option to "start new campaign" only "Continue".
I followed your instructions, above. Windows Explorer says "not found".
I tried looking inside the Aliens game folder. NOTHING is named ".sav"

That is the correct location, it's in C:\users\YOURLOGIN etc.

Also, if you have Steam Cloud saves enabled, it will restore the deleted saves just as you load the game. Turn off Steam Cloud saves in properties of the game first, don't forget to turn it back on again later.

Tested PRAET0R1AN™ ︻デ =ー's methods, works fine:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2863220523

[scribd22]

Originally posted by mayrc:

Ahh ok I understand. Sadly there ist a way to reset it totally. Even reinstall will use your steam account and save your progress

I've tried deleting both the game, and steam. Reinstalled. Started the game in both Offline and Online mode. No option available to "start new game" only "continue".

Why would the developers do this?

[scribd22]

Originally posted by Psycho:

Originally posted by scribd22:

I have the game installed. The main menu shows no option to "start new campaign" only "Continue".
I followed your instructions, above. Windows Explorer says "not found".
I tried looking inside the Aliens game folder. NOTHING is named ".sav"

That is the correct location, it's in C:\users\YOURLOGIN etc.

Also, if you have Steam Cloud saves enabled, it will restore the deleted saves just as you load the game. Turn off Steam Cloud saves in properties of the game first, don't forget to turn it back on again later.

Tested PRAET0R1AN™ ︻デ =ー's methods, works fine:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2863220523

Thank you. You wrote, "That is the correct location, it's in C:\users\YOURLOGIN etc."

Within that sentence, what is the exact thing the word "that" is referring to?

My game shows it being in: D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Searching inside that area, NOTHING is labeled ".sav"

I cannot find anything named "Steam cloud saves". I did find an option to turn off "steam cloud synchronization". Turning this off made no difference.

[scribd22]

Originally posted by scribd22:

Originally posted by Psycho:

That is the correct location, it's in C:\users\YOURLOGIN etc.

Also, if you have Steam Cloud saves enabled, it will restore the deleted saves just as you load the game. Turn off Steam Cloud saves in properties of the game first, don't forget to turn it back on again later.

Tested PRAET0R1AN™ ︻デ =ー's methods, works fine:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2863220523

Thank you. You wrote, "That is the correct location, it's in C:\users\YOURLOGIN etc."

Within that sentence, what is the exact thing the word "that" is referring to?

My game shows it being in: D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

Searching inside that area, NOTHING is labeled ".sav"

I cannot find anything named "Steam cloud saves". I did find an option to turn off "steam cloud synchronization". Turning this off made no difference.

I also dont understand the "tested pretorian methods" thing you posted.....you have to understand LOTS of people have close to ZERO knowledge about games and about computers. Speak to me as you would a retarded four year old, assume I know NOTHING. Thank you.

[Stormtempter]

Praetorian in this context is an earlier poster, specifically post #6

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™ ︻デ =ー:

Tried deleting the save?

Open start menu : in the search box type "run" hit OK/enter to open it.

Paste this in : %LOCALAPPDATA%\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames

Hit OK again, Delete the files inside.

Don't forget to back up the saves in case you want to revert.

[Stormtempter]

In general terms, the game's files to run are in your steam install directory. Your unique files, regarding your progress, characters, all of that is saved to your Windows profile directory, basically in Your Documents, though the exact location varies based on your Windows setup.

Many games use this method of one location for installs and the user's documents location for local files, though as others have mentioned, cloud saves and cloud restoration/syncing is also used.

[Psycho]

Originally posted by scribd22:

I also dont understand the "tested pretorian methods" thing you posted.....you have to understand LOTS of people have close to ZERO knowledge about games and about computers. Speak to me as you would a retarded four year old, assume I know NOTHING. Thank you.

Don't be too harsh on yourself, it's not easy until you've done it a time or two. Stormtempter is absolutely correct.

I used Praetorian's method and pasted "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames" into Windows Key-R (run, you can also use File Explorer and paste it in there) , which opens whatever location your user profile is.

Under Windows 10 the default is what I wrote:

C:\Users\YOURLOGINNAME\AppData\Local\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames

Where YOURLOGINNAME is the account you use on your computer. For me it is 'Psycho' for you it will be whatever you type in the username box when you log in. Your 'appdata' might be elsewhere but that's the default. You also try searching for the 'Endeavor' folder if you prefer.

in \Local\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames is a folder with a very long name. This is very likely your steamid number (so there can be multiple saves if more than one person uses the computer) and in this folder is all the save files. You can delete these to reset the entire game progress which is what I demonstrated in pic - after 260 hours of playing AFE I was back to "Start Game" with no continue option.

You also need to open properties of AFE in Steam Library, and in General tab untick the box labelled "Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud for Aliens: Fireteam Elite" this stops Steam from restoring your deleted saves. What you're doing is removing the protection feature of Steam that would allow you to not only play on from your saved position from any computer in the world, but restore your failed computer/Steam install to working order.

HOWEVER, please read my reply to your first post, I really feel that deleting your saves is not a good option here.

Originally posted by Hicks:

You've blown the transaxle (save files), you're just grinding metal! Ease down...

[Stormtempter]

From your other post, its the 2:3 end fight giving you grief, to the point that you feel you need a large cache of consumables and want to restart to 'build up' the proper way, if I read the situation correct. You can replay all the missions at anytime though, the dialog will be the same, with few variations. You can run them in order, or just pick one to do a few times if you prefer. Either option will still get you everything that a clean slate install would have.

You'd just have to re-earn and re-buy and re-unlock any mods you may have gotten up to this point, and would have to rediscover intel, thats all a clean slate install would net you. If thats what you are wanting, I'm not going to stop you or anything, just want to make sure you know what all you can do and not do in each situation.