Save game issues?

[Mistahugh]

Hey all, anyone else having trouble just saving the game? Save and exit game and save and exit to menu both seem to do nothing. Put a few hours in this morning and came back to my character gone. made another and tried again, this time immediately saving to menu. Still nothing. Anyone having this issue? Really want to play this game! got to the ship building part and logged off for lunch and was sad to see the progress gone. No trolling here, I totally get that bugs are a thing and will be a little different for everyone. Just wondering if i'm missing something super obvious here

[Darth Imperius]

I'm having the same issue as well. I tried saving and quitting but it did not retain my progress after a few hours of gameplay.

[Mistahugh]

good to know at least one other person is having this problem, I can't really find any other examples of it besides a few reviews.

[ShnableFlob]

I had same issue. Played for 6 hours and now my world and character are gone

[Spacebar Jazz]

There's an issue right now where the code library they're using doesn't save properly if there are underscores or non-latin characters in the filepath of where the saves are located. Usually the culprit is in the name of the user folder (USERNAME in the example below):

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Bossa Studios\LostSkies Demo

It's a pretty big oversight, but a workaround is to create a new Windows user on your device to launch the game from that only has alphabetic characters in it.

[MorganWant]

I too have had this issue consistently. My game crashed once, then blue screened trying to reload and my character was gone. I chocked it up to that particular mess of crashes. Today my character is gone, so i tried saving and quitting and then restarting game, have to remake a character every single time.

I see a comment about a work around above, will try that out.

[Mistahugh]

Originally posted by Spacebar Jazz:

There's an issue right now where the code library they're using doesn't save properly if there are underscores or non-latin characters in the filepath of where the saves are located. Usually the culprit is in the name of the user folder (USERNAME in the example below):

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Bossa Studios\LostSkies Demo

It's a pretty big oversight, but a workaround is to create a new Windows user on your device to launch the game from that only has alphabetic characters in it.

Interesting! Honestly, at least it sounds like something relatively straightforward (in theory) to fix. Super appreciate the workaround, will try that tonight.
Thanks everyone else for the replies.

[Typhooni]

I saved my world but it didn't save, now all progress is lost. We need an autosave feature pleaseeeee....

[Uriel]

Originally posted by Spacebar Jazz:

There's an issue right now where the code library they're using doesn't save properly if there are underscores or non-latin characters in the filepath of where the saves are located. Usually the culprit is in the name of the user folder (USERNAME in the example below):

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Bossa Studios\LostSkies Demo

It's a pretty big oversight, but a workaround is to create a new Windows user on your device to launch the game from that only has alphabetic characters in it.

Funny that, Elder Scrolls Online had the same issue, and I mean the EXACT same issue, with saving screenshots if username was only latin, non accentuated characters. But that was like almost 10 years ago

Then you have Tale of Immortal which won't even launch if the computer you're running it on doesn't have chinese language installed, and needs to fiddle with Steam files so you can rename the directory into latin characters and make Steam understand you renamed it.

Seriously, how is that even a problem today ?