KCD 2 deleted my game saves

[JediIgoPL]

I have 25h in this game, I was in Kuttenberg standing in the gate and tried to save the game by drinking Saviour Schnapps, but instead I saw the initial cutscene. No confirmation window popped up for me, and I'm sure I clicked the right option. I don't have any save files in the game folder. What can I do? I don't want to play 25h again with the same quests and grind.

[MaSeKind]

You started a new game by the sounds of it. Other people have done the same. Do you go into the menu to save or drink the potion from your inventory?

[JediIgoPL]

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

You started a new game by the sounds of it. Other people have done the same. Do you go into the menu to save or drink the potion from your inventory?

I go to menu and I choose where I want to save. As I said no confirmation window pops up for me. Can I do something about it or I have to start everything from beginning?

[MaSeKind]

Originally posted by JediIgoPL:

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

You started a new game by the sounds of it. Other people have done the same. Do you go into the menu to save or drink the potion from your inventory?

I go to menu and I choose where I want to save. As I said no confirmation window pops up for me. Can I do something about it or I have to start everything from beginning?

If you've not closed the game then maybe.

If you turn off your internet and then close the game steam can't sync.
Go to your userdata steam folder, find the game id on steamdb and then delete the folder with that id name. It start with 177 I think. Then turn on your internet. If it all goes to plan steam will download the last cloud saves it has when you open the game again

[JediIgoPL]

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

Originally posted by JediIgoPL:

I go to menu and I choose where I want to save. As I said no confirmation window pops up for me. Can I do something about it or I have to start everything from beginning?

If you've not closed the game then maybe.

If you turn off your internet and then close the game steam can't sync.
Go to your userdata steam folder, find the game id on steamdb and then delete the folder with that id name. It start with 177 I think. Then turn on your internet. If it all goes to plan steam will download the last cloud saves it has when you open the game again

unfortunately too late for that but thanks....

[MaSeKind]

Originally posted by JediIgoPL:

Originally posted by MaSeKind:

If you've not closed the game then maybe.

If you turn off your internet and then close the game steam can't sync.
Go to your userdata steam folder, find the game id on steamdb and then delete the folder with that id name. It start with 177 I think. Then turn on your internet. If it all goes to plan steam will download the last cloud saves it has when you open the game again

unfortunately too late for that but thanks....

Yeah that sucks. Steam needs a save backup system so you can restore a previous sync. I don't like using cloud saves because I've lost progress because of it before. I prefer managing my own game backups as I've been doing for decades

[LaW.hp]

same sh*t ... 2 times ....

[Edible Trashcan]

no solution?

[ingeplinge]

Was loading my save from yesterday. The game did start a new game and did delte my saves. Did exit the game and steam cloud did sync. Lost 28 hours of playtime.

[bober kurwa]

use disk drill

[Dracon]

The actual problem is that the game doesn't overwrite the oldest save when it hits max (around 500 saves), but the last save on slot 500.

[Vizionblind]

This just happened to me too :(

[Leoncino]

Same thing. Wasted 100 hours. Don't want to start over again. Damn game.

[GODEVILS]

Good. You shouldn't be playing it anyway.

[Lawh]

I read this, and made an app real quick that will backup saves automatically from the folder of your choice. As there are thousands of players it is for sure going to happen at least a few times to some unfortunate folks.

I will try to see where I can upload it for you guys to use.

The app reads an origin folder you give it every ten seconds, which would be the save folder for the playline you want to back up, and then if there are new or overwritten (this should work hopefully) files in the origin folder, it will copy those files into a backup folder in the directory where you run the app from. You can then check in the backup folder for any files that might have gone missing.

I just finished the story yesterday and even though it would be nice to start again, I did not want to risk losing it all.

EDIT:
Here it is. If you don't trust me don't download it or use it.
- https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance2/mods/601/?tab=files
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/15QYu9PMxgW2YS0lUq_fukCgYfsCx1jh2/view
- https://github.com/LawhMods/BackupFolderApp

Instructions:
- You can make it run minimized at Windows startup by placing a shortcut into the Windows Startup folder and making it run minimized by editing the properties of the shortcut.
- Run it and a console window will open
- Paste in the path to your playline folder and press enter - "...USERNAME\Saved Games\kingdomcome2\saves\playline0" for example
- The app will create a config file that saves this path into it when you run it again.
- The app will create a Backups folder into the app directory.
- The app will then check the save game folder every 10 seconds to see if there are new files to back up.
- If new saves are found, it will copy those new saves into the Backups folder.
- If a file with the same name already exists, it will add a "Backup#" tag to the end of it.

- If you want to backup multiple playlines, run multiple instances of this same app but put them in different folders. This app is meant to be as simple and dumb as possible to avoid running into any missed files or other errors.

[Snakekiller]

I thought something like that and have been creating backups for my save games myself from the start.



Solution 1 (before this mishap occurs):

Simply go to the folder:
C:\users\"username"\saved games\kingdomcome2\saves
(create a link so you can access it quickly)
and regularly save the data in a separate folder.
You can also reduce the save files yourself by simply deleting them manually from the folder.


Solution 2 (after it's already too late):

Otherwise there is the Steam website:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

You may still find your old save games there and can download them. For example, I still have save games from February 8th there.



Then you don't need any other things like a self-written program or something like that.