Progress from The Following to Hellraid?

[BucFanBen]

I'm currently playing The Following DLC. If I purchase Hellraid will the progress I've made in The Following carry over into Hellraid?

[alka]

Hellraid is like a game within the game. It won't matter where you are in the story in either the main campaign or in The Following, you will be able to access the Hellraid game by going to Brecken's Tower in the Slums. You enter the Hellraid game by interacting with an old video game machine there.

[Jinxxed]

manually back up your save before you load it or you'll probably lose everything. the game is bugged out right now and your grappling hook wont work, your flash light, and senses, and a bunch of other stuff wont work and you can't attack enemies etc. The only solution i've found is to start a new game.

The devs haven't responded nor acknowledged this.

It looks like Dockets don't carry over to new games either, so all those dockets are just gone forever.

[jasnxl]

Your character/stats carries over to the Hellraid map, but you're inventory is emptied. The mechanics work exactly like the Pit mission in the Slums, where you fight the Demolisher, and the Museum mission in Old Town, when you fight Tahir.

I was finishing a play through of the Following and quit before completing the final mission, in order to switch to the main campaign, and play the beta access of the Hellraid DLC, (after pre-purchasing). Upon starting my game in the Slums by choosing Play Campaign, I received a message saying that my save game file needed to be updated, and after it completed, I was put into the Slums tracking the last quest there. I did not back up my save file.

I switched to tracking Hellraid DLC in Quests, went to the Tower, and then went to the room opposite the first floor vendor, and saw the arcade game. Went over to it, and interacted, and then started the Hellraid beta access play. Again ,when you enter the Hellraid map, you have nothing in inventory, and during the play through you find weapons and other items.

The only glitch I found was after completing the level 1 beta access of the Hellraid map, when I chose the portal to go back to the Tower in the Slums, my game got stuck on the Loading screen. I Alt-Tabbed out of the game, restarted my computer, and when I went back into DL, I was still in the Hellraid map, but this time the accessing the portal to the Slums worked, and I was back in the Tower pretty quickly.

My save file still works correctly, and I didn't lose any items by playing the DLC, because everything in my prior inventory was in my stash. However, others have reported losing their current Legend level points when they die in the Hellraid map, which is the regular DL game behavior when you play on Nightmare[dyinglight.fandom.com] difficulty.

So the only suggestion I'd make is the same one when playing Nightmare difficulty and you're working to raise your Legend levels, complete the Legend level you're currently on, BEFORE trying the Hellraid beta. That way when you die, you'll only lose a small amount of XP.

Good Luck..