THERE IS NO WARNING POPUP FOR STARTING A NEW GAME?!?!?!?!?!

[certificus]

I am FURIOUS. I love this game to death but this INCREDIBLY STUPID design choice has truly delivered a lasting hit to my willingness to play it anymore.

I open up the game, put a YouTube video on to listen to in the background, tab back into the game, miss the continue button and my mouse accidentally slips further down onto the "new game" button instead and I instinctively click before I realise that my mouse slipped two buttons down, and 150 HOURS WORTH OF PROGRESS, LOOTING, CRAFTING, RESEARCHING AND BASE BUILDING IS PERMANENTLY GONE?!

Firstly, I hope to god that my game can be saved in any way and that I did not just permanently lose 150 hours worth of progress to an accidental mouse slip, because if that is the case, no amount of game polish will persuade me from doing ALL OF THAT WORK all over again.

Secondly, this MUST BE PATCHED IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE. I cannot imagine someone who may have spent even more hours in a single game file realising that all of their progress was just instantaneously DELETED just because they got so used to clicking on the continue button as soon as the menu opened up that they zone out and accidentally click another button literally 2 slots down.

There must be something I am not seeing, right? There's no way the devs would put in a new game button, slot it 2 button spaces below the continue button, and not even accident-proof it by making the player click on a second "I am sure" button before ALL OF THEIR PROGRESS is permanently deleted.... right?...

I was almost ready to build my second cruiser cannon... I almost reached city ruins 5... This truly hurt.

EDIT: Night (939) and BioHazard were a godsend and provided a successful fix to my issue! Sincere thank you to the both of you!!!

[Night (939)]

Be glad friend for the game makes a silly amount of back-up save files and you can roll it back.

[Night (939)]

Believe this will help "You can find your saves in the folder AppData\Local\U01\Saved\
Make sure the game is completely closed, then go to AppData\Local\U01\Saved\SaveBackup\ and find the .bak that matches the time before you started a new save.
Move or copy it to AppData\Local\U01\Saved\SaveGames[Your SteamID#][Random #] and rename it "GameSaveData.sav" (You can move or copy and rename the old one)"

[BioHazard ™]

Yes what Night said. I understand your frustartion. I have explained this to someone else before that had a similair problem so I will give copy of the detailed explanation here:

If you type %appdata% in your windows search bar it will bring up a folder. There is a window above the openable folders in which you can see a series of folders that lead up to the one you are in. Just hit backspace and you will enter the >AppData< folder.

Open the Local folder --> go to UO1 --> Saved --> SaveBackup --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find all your backup saves. Check if there are any saves here and check what the date and time is on that file. If you do have a save that is the correct time and date since you think the last EXACT time was you played and everything was okay, click on that file and press CTRL + C.

Now click, in that bar of series of folders you are in, on >Saved< which will take you back to the Saved folder.

Here open SaveGames --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find a file that is called GameSaveData.sav (your main save file)
Rename the file to GameSaveData2.sav
Press CRTL + V
Now rename this Backup save (which should be a really long number) to this exactly: GameSaveData.sav
It will will give you a prompt that the file format will change, just accept that.
Run the game and check.

(You now at least know where the save files of your game are and how to change them to your main save so check the save folders and see what you can find if that wasnt the game, if you do this exactly like I explaied you will restore your game, Otherwise try to search your pc and find the save files somewhere else if they are not where I explained, GL.)

[Kaezeribato]

Instead of a pop-up, having more than one save slot would be better.
Even Monster Hunter world let you have more than one character, so it's doable for this kind of game.

[DarkGear]

I'm surprised I have to provide this (not trying to be a troll here or mean): There are multiple save slots already. Click on save file button and click on the save you want to load up. I thought this was a known thing just by clicking on buttons. Apparently I am wrong. You can even edit the save file name so you know which one you have the most progress in. From what I can see, there are at least 3 slots, possibly more. I hope this helps.

[BuddyGuy]

Originally posted by BioHazard ™:

Yes what Night said. I understand your frustartion. I have explained this to someone else before that had a similair problem so I will give copy of the detailed explanation here:

If you type %appdata% in your windows search bar it will bring up a folder. There is a window above the openable folders in which you can see a series of folders that lead up to the one you are in. Just hit backspace and you will enter the >AppData< folder.

Open the Local folder --> go to UO1 --> Saved --> SaveBackup --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find all your backup saves. Check if there are any saves here and check what the date and time is on that file. If you do have a save that is the correct time and date since you think the last EXACT time was you played and everything was okay, click on that file and press CTRL + C.

Now click, in that bar of series of folders you are in, on >Saved< which will take you back to the Saved folder.

Here open SaveGames --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find a file that is called GameSaveData.sav (your main save file)
Rename the file to GameSaveData2.sav
Press CRTL + V
Now rename this Backup save (which should be a really long number) to this exactly: GameSaveData.sav
It will will give you a prompt that the file format will change, just accept that.
Run the game and check.

(You now at least know where the save files of your game are and how to change them to your main save so check the save folders and see what you can find if that wasnt the game, if you do this exactly like I explaied you will restore your game, Otherwise try to search your pc and find the save files somewhere else if they are not where I explained, GL.)

OMG you have saved me.
I was about to uninstall when i ran across your post on how to use backup saves.

YAY my character isn't dead anymore!

[Adialeda]

Originally posted by DarkGear:

I'm surprised I have to provide this (not trying to be a troll here or mean): There are multiple save slots already. Click on save file button and click on the save you want to load up. I thought this was a known thing just by clicking on buttons. Apparently I am wrong. You can even edit the save file name so you know which one you have the most progress in. From what I can see, there are at least 3 slots, possibly more. I hope this helps.

It also seemed to me that the “save” option in the main menu for selecting a profile. But all these people are going the hard way just without realizing it? Or is there something wrong with this option? I had the idea of trying to create another outpost from the very beginning, but now I’m kind of scared.

[certificus]

Originally posted by Adialeda:

Originally posted by DarkGear:

I'm surprised I have to provide this (not trying to be a troll here or mean): There are multiple save slots already. Click on save file button and click on the save you want to load up. I thought this was a known thing just by clicking on buttons. Apparently I am wrong. You can even edit the save file name so you know which one you have the most progress in. From what I can see, there are at least 3 slots, possibly more. I hope this helps.

It also seemed to me that the “save” option in the main menu for selecting a profile. But all these people are going the hard way just without realizing it? Or is there something wrong with this option? I had the idea of trying to create another outpost from the very beginning, but now I’m kind of scared.

When you click on "new game", you do not get the option to choose a save slot because it immediately begins loading a completely new game and seemingly overwrites save files of previous playthroughs.

They r e a l l y need to fix this asap. Its something capable of making people quit the game on the spot.

[certificus]

Originally posted by BioHazard ™:

Yes what Night said. I understand your frustartion. I have explained this to someone else before that had a similair problem so I will give copy of the detailed explanation here:

If you type %appdata% in your windows search bar it will bring up a folder. There is a window above the openable folders in which you can see a series of folders that lead up to the one you are in. Just hit backspace and you will enter the >AppData< folder.

Open the Local folder --> go to UO1 --> Saved --> SaveBackup --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find all your backup saves. Check if there are any saves here and check what the date and time is on that file. If you do have a save that is the correct time and date since you think the last EXACT time was you played and everything was okay, click on that file and press CTRL + C.

Now click, in that bar of series of folders you are in, on >Saved< which will take you back to the Saved folder.

Here open SaveGames --> should be a long number like this one= 76561198258614319 --> should be a long number again like this = D8FE1459454271E1F0B49D9AA11417C3

Here you can find a file that is called GameSaveData.sav (your main save file)
Rename the file to GameSaveData2.sav
Press CRTL + V
Now rename this Backup save (which should be a really long number) to this exactly: GameSaveData.sav
It will will give you a prompt that the file format will change, just accept that.
Run the game and check.

(You now at least know where the save files of your game are and how to change them to your main save so check the save folders and see what you can find if that wasnt the game, if you do this exactly like I explaied you will restore your game, Otherwise try to search your pc and find the save files somewhere else if they are not where I explained, GL.)

I did exactly as you asked and when I clicked on continue that specific save file I used actually did load for me, which is a good sign, if only for a moment until I realised if I leave the game and click on continue again, the game loads that same save file as it was in that instance.

In other words, any progress I try making from that save file gets deleted and I get rewound back to the point at which I loaded the save file.

Did I do something wrong somewhere?...

[Night (939)]

Out of curiosity if you go the the save file's properties is it read-only?

[certificus]

Originally posted by Night (939):

Out of curiosity if you go the the save file's properties is it read-only?

I am not a very fiddly person but I did check the save file I used and the read-only check box is not checked.

[Night (939)]

Plucking at straws here but is your steam cloud active?

[certificus]

Originally posted by Night (939):

Plucking at straws here but is your steam cloud active?

Yeah the steam cloud is good and up to date.

I think its fine though, my sincere thanks to the both of you for willing to help me resolve this issue. Me being me, I'll probably redo everything from the ground up. I know it was more than 100 hours worth of looting and shooting but its addicting enough to make it okay. Re-building the damn base every time I research a new set of A.T.C expansions is probably gonna be the biggest pain but eh, of well.

Its a really damn good game and I smell the potential for 1000+ hours'worth of game time, they just need to fix things like this really quick. It's definitely one of the points dragging it down at the moment.

It simply should not be this easy for someone to ruin their own experience. at least make me read an extra pop-up if you're going to literally overwrite the only save file I have...

[Night (939)]

What happened to you is quite odd as the save-scum trick usually works without much hassle. Perhaps the discord might be of use if you use disco the peeps on their are quite helpful and more in tune with the jank of the game XD.

[certificus]

Originally posted by Night (939):

What happened to you is quite odd as the save-scum trick usually works without much hassle. Perhaps the discord might be of use if you use disco the peeps on their are quite helpful and more in tune with the jank of the game XD.

I'll def take a peak in the discord then lol ty ty