How do i get my Game save back?

[Titan]

Just did one of the bigger mistakes, and Was shocked at how easy it is to deleate save files or entire play throughs.

Simply clicking new game on one of the games you are playing it's all gone noi option of going back even though i clicked back so the new game isn't there.

my mistake was thinking i was in load game not in new game menu

so how to get it back or drop the game for a time till i get my motivation back?

[Tenchuu Khan]

You have to confirm twice to overwrite a playline.

That means you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up 3 times
1 You selected to start a New Game
2 - You confirmed that you overwrite your old game
3 - For good measure, you confirmed again that your old playline is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ afterwards


This is like complaining about shutting down your Windows OS with extra steps....



I really feel sorry for you but complaining about it is a wee bit weird considering the steps involved to ♥♥♥♥ up that bad without doing it on purpose.

[Titan]

Had this been a regular save file and not the entire play folder and i never even got into the game.
Did i click yes once where i shouldn't that i did apparently, i do not however believe I was asked twice.

I was in new game started one hardcore then got to pick drawbacks then said no and back. And for some dumb reason (might be due to 4 hours of sleep) I clicked on another of my games now thinking i was in load game and now that attempt at hardcore mode is gone. And with my first play being ruined by updates that broke some mechanics of the game (Some of my perks no longer worked, as was the case for many others) Grasnted that would leave me with my last play through where I started over after the big update.

What i am saying is i find nothing wrong with it being this easy to remove a regular save file, but an entire playthrough folder from just that is silly.

Granted the good thing was it was just about 20 hours at hardcore mode

[Tenchuu Khan]

As said - I really feel sorry for you - but I reproed it - you aren't the first ;)

Made a Backup at first of course but you have to really super-confirm what you are doing.

Over here in Austria we call it "Lehrgeld" - which would translate to "lesson money" - sucks but it'll stick - won't make that mistake again.

[Titan]

regarding back ups, i see there are still some files in log backups from today.
are these the ones i need to rescue the game?
also if i did this another time would closing with alt f4 have save me the mistake?

[Titan]

as closing with alt f4 avoids the regular save when leaving the game.
though this being the entire folder rather than 1 might be different aside it also being in the menu.

The save file being hardcore mode, does that also make it easier to remove? if it's just 1 save

[Tenchuu Khan]

Back when "we" used HDDs files weren't actually deleted, only the file entry was perished.
There's a ton of tools out there to recover such files.

No clue how that works with SSDs or nVMEs though. I mean, all I know is that if you used the defrag tool on an SSD you might as well throw it into the oven as all that does is toasting it.

[Tenchuu Khan]

Originally posted by Titan:

as closing with alt f4 avoids the regular save when leaving the game.
though this being the entire folder rather than 1 might be different aside it also being in the menu.

The save file being hardcore mode, does that also make it easier to remove? if it's just 1 save

If you overwrite a playline it wipes everything in it so it's not a single save-file issue.

[Titan]

by chance could you elaborate the defrag thing on the SSD?

as i was close to attempting it a few days ago.

[Tenchuu Khan]

It's got to do with how harddisks work.
Didn't break my head over this for some 20 years but let me explain.

Basically harddisks are built so that data is stored wherever there's some space.
Best way to put it is.... hmmmm let's say you want to store file B after deleting file A:

Before, the data blocks would have looked something like this:
CCCCAAAAAAAADDDDDDDD

Now, you remove file A there'd be a hole in it, so then it'd look something like
CCCCBBB*******DDDDDDDD

It could be worse though. Imagine having a bigger file such as E, then it'd look like
CCCCEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEE

The thing about that is that now the data blocks are discontinued and it takes longer to read those files - aka fragmentation.
Now here's where defragmentation came in on HDDs - it reorganized the disk so the files are connected again in a sense.

That only works for Harddisks though and if you run the defragmentation tool anything but it, you'll toast the drive.
They simply don't work that way.

[Titan]

good to know hopefully will remember this in the future.
Heard some talk about it not being possible a few days ago so having heard thaty said twice in a week made me curious.
Thanks