3 Hours of lost game time HELP

[Wookiee]

Hi everyone,

I was playing and saving my game regularly, about every hour. One night, I saved while waiting for an attack, then left to watch a film. When I returned and loaded the game, I found that I had lost over 3 hours of progress. I tried restoring the cloud save, placing it in C:\Users\33623\AppData\Local\IFSS\Saved\SaveGames, but the game still loads the old save with the 3 hours of lost time.

If anyone can help, I’d really appreciate it! I made a lot of progress in those 3 hours.

[Daemonique]

Unfortunately at this time not saving correctly and rolling back is a known issue. Did this happen before the last patch? We found in coop (multiplayer) that the game has now been saving correctly, before that it was rolling back on us for the second player. I have seen people mentioned this for single player after this patch, but have not experienced this myself.

[Wookiee]

Thank you for the response. This issue happened to me two days ago in single-player mode, and unfortunately, it's not the first time. I actually stopped playing because I felt like I was wasting time due to the saves not working correctly. This issue occurred after the most recent patch.

Does anyone know why the cloud save won’t restore? I even tried deleting all the other save files except the one I wanted to keep, but I still lost my progress. It’s incredibly frustrating, and I’m not sure what else to try. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!

[Daemonique]

I have no idea why it is happening in this game, I have never experienced this elsewhere before. Maybe the cloud save isn't working properly because it is linked to a third party Epic, who is possibly also farming data?

I thought the saves were fixed but my friend playing in my world had a rollback in xp and gear after they logged at the end of the night. After the last patches the save for the second player in coop was working but now it randomly isn't again. I find that the Steam save seems to have a lag delay in it. I have seen some others say that it is not saving properly now in single player.

[Wookiee]

Thanks for the reply! I think I’ll play another game until I hear this issue is fixed. :) It’s just too frustrating to lose progress repeatedly, but I hope it gets resolved soon. Looking forward to coming back when it’s sorted out!

[Daemonique]

We are going to continue to play and offer feedback to the developers. We are really enjoying this game, and feel it has so much potential. We have changed our mindset from 'having to get somewhere' to dwelling and surviving in a beautiful world.

[IfSunSets [Official]]

Hello,
We want to apologize for the issues you are experiencing.
There seems to be an issue with our game and the Steam Cloud Saving synchronization process. We are trying to find a solution for the issue right now.
What seems to happen: After exiting IfSunSets the Steam client takes a long time to synchronize the savedata with the cloud. If Steam is closed or the PC shut down during this process the save seems to gets corrupted or lost. We are working on optimizing the save sync process. Once more our apologies and we will fix this issue as soon as we can.

[Wookiee]

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer. I look forward to returning to the game soon—it's the best game in its style since Valheim. I truly enjoy being part of this experience and look forward to contributing further to the game once this issue is resolved.

Would turning off the cloud save assure me that no game time can be lost in the future? If so, I’m happy to proceed with this adjustment to avoid any setbacks.

[condorpop]

Hello, this problem is still present, lost backup of 5 hours of my character on coop :/