Joining players unable to continue in co-op

[Random]

Ever since the hotfix/patch yesterday my friend has been unable to continue in our saved game.

By that I mean I can continue with my inventory etc at the base location, however my friend on day 15 or whatever it may be will start over back on the plane with no inventory items etc.

So the main loss is his inventory and various items collected like samarai sword / modern axe / etc.

Anyone else noticed this issue?

[Wariat117]

There is bug subforum you might find something similar there:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/24

also did he press continue or new game?
and he could accidently remove his save from your coop :D

[Random]

continue is greyed out for him :(

we had continued many times before this patch, however for whatever reason since he is unable to rejoin any saved game.

We even started over, got to day 10 or so, and then after saving and looking to continue a few hours after, we hit the same issue, greyed out continue button :(

I am able to continue as the host, however the option is unavailable for him as a client.

[Wariat117]

Maybe his save glitched? or was removed?
Open (you) any folder and paste it into path, you will see folder with you steam id
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\SKS\TheForest\

Inside this folder you will find "SinglePlayer" and "MultiPlayer", go to multi and then go to the save you two use (slot3 for example)
Inside should be "guid" open it with notepad/wordpad/notepad++ (or something similar), you will see strange numbers and letters.


Tell you friend to do the same
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\SKS\TheForest\
But he should go into MultiPlayer and then "cs", inside this folder should be his save, name of this save will be the same as the strange-numbers-and-letters you have seen in guid.


If he doesn't have either "cs" folder or the save with this strange-numbers-and-letters-name then something deleted his save.
I think that multiplayer saves aren't in the steam cloud so if he changed PC then he lost it.
(No idea if there are any other files apart from those in "cs" responsible for multiplayer save, I could miss something)



He could try to verify game files but no idea if it will help with anything.

[Random]

Thank you for your reply wariat117.

We have investigated the file locations you mentioned he does indeed have a cs folder in his multiplayer HOWEVER the last file modify date in this location was the 23rd.

It seems that for whatever reason his side hasn't been saving his data in our recent MP games.

we are going to try doing a double save in game to see if that will prompt the game to generate a new file in his folder, as previously I had simply been solo saving as the host and he was able to continue no problems.

I'm sure this isn't the best practice, but it had worked before so we didn't really question it.

going to give it a go, brb :D

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by Random:

previously I had simply been solo saving as the host

I didn't know that it could work this way o_O

I thought that it works ONLY if you both save :D

[𝔇ave]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Originally posted by Random:

previously I had simply been solo saving as the host

I didn't know that it could work this way o_O

I thought that it works ONLY if you both save :D

As far as I've seen both players need to save..

[Random]

Okay, seems saving does indeed need to be done by both parties.

Game working perfectly with him manually saving his own state to ensure his inventory remains intact, while as the host I only save the environment and my own inventory.

Previously however as a host I was actually saving both our inventories without him needing to save each day or whatnot, so it seems they tightened this requirement.

Eitherway game is working so thank you for your suggestions guys :)

[Wariat117]

Oh I have totally forgot about the item-cloning stuff ;D
It's good advice as "fix" in the current situation.

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by LyN Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ:

sorry i removed it incase the dev's didn't want me posting that sort of stuff here haha :D

lmao :D
But I doubt they would punish you for this, many games have similar cloning tenchniques.
It's feature :V

[jillv46]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Maybe his save glitched? or was removed?
Open (you) any folder and paste it into path, you will see folder with you steam id
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\SKS\TheForest\

Inside this folder you will find "SinglePlayer" and "MultiPlayer", go to multi and then go to the save you two use (slot3 for example)
Inside should be "guid" open it with notepad/wordpad/notepad++ (or something similar), you will see strange numbers and letters.


Tell you friend to do the same
%appdata%\..\LocalLow\SKS\TheForest\
But he should go into MultiPlayer and then "cs", inside this folder should be his save, name of this save will be the same as the strange-numbers-and-letters you have seen in guid.


If he doesn't have either "cs" folder or the save with this strange-numbers-and-letters-name then something deleted his save.
I think that multiplayer saves aren't in the steam cloud so if he changed PC then he lost it.
(No idea if there are any other files apart from those in "cs" responsible for multiplayer save, I could miss something)



He could try to verify game files but no idea if it will help with anything.

So my brother and I have the same issue and he saved his game and I saved my game (I'm the host) right after him but when I invite him to my game the "Continue" button is grayed out and he can only select new. We checked our files from what you said here and we both have them. Is there something we can do to fix it? I really don't want to start over from the beginning again ;(

[Wariat117]

If there really is save with name exactly the same as guuid then no idea how to fix it

Game has access to save and decides to ignore it

Maybe there is some error while guuid is sent to friend and he sees different one, can try to backup current one and then try to create new one and see if it has the same name or different (aka received different guuid -> then rename old one to new guuid and try to continue using that)

[jillv46]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

If there really is save with name exactly the same as guuid then no idea how to fix it

Game has access to save and decides to ignore it

Maybe there is some error while guuid is sent to friend and he sees different one, can try to backup current one and then try to create new one and see if it has the same name or different (aka received different guuid -> then rename old one to new guuid and try to continue using that)

Like the file my brother sees isn't the same text as mine but there is text in general. Before the continue button got grayed out I don't think we checked the files to see if they match or not but now (after it being grayed out) the text from both of us don't match. Is that bad or? And if there is an "error" how do I check for that?

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by jillv46:

the text from both of us don't match. Is that bad?

yes

Originally posted by jillv46:

And if there is an "error" how do I check for that?

probably in logs wherever the forest keeps them
but unity games usually remove logs after each game restart, and we would want error that occured while saving, aka before trying to continue