Unlocked Characters Lost

[✿ UwU ✿]

Hello,

This morning I booted up the game, saw the temporary character, and started playing. Unfortunately the power went out to our apartment building, and when I booted the game again, I had lost all of my ccharacters that were unlocked as well as all album pictures (strangely, the pods were fine). Is there a resolution to this?

[melkathi]

The pods are still there because they are tied to achievements. The game sees you have the achievements and knows to have the pods unlocked.
But if progress is wiped there is no such alternate way for the game to figure out it is missing something.
I'd suggest uploading your profile file from the dungeon of the endless folder in My Documents (I think the file is called User.pfl or something similar) alongside possibly your diagnostics file, output log and if there is a save file. Then the devs can try to see if there is anything they can do. Of course this being the weekend now...

The characters you can unlock with some XML editing. The album pictures... I don't think so.

[✿ UwU ✿]

Got it - I'll go ahead and mess with the XML - that's probably the easiest route...the album pictures will be easy to unlock with that going forward. Thanks!

[melkathi]

I like the confidence. Good man.

Keep a backup of the file you edit. Editing XMLs disables steam achievements. So you want to edit the file to unlock the heroes, launch the game so your profile updates to having the heroes unlocked, then quit the game and restore the unedited file.

edit: also, I am going to bed now. So if you find you need help, I'll be around when I wake up again :)

[✿ UwU ✿]

Appreciated - that makes a lot of sense, especially given the achievement context. Thanks for the advice! I'll have to give this a shot in a little bit.

[✿ UwU ✿]

Huh, unfortunately I'm only seeing the registry files in the documents folder as well as the program install folder under steamapss. I also checked for any appdata folders but didn't see anything, and it looks like I can't open the user.PFL file for modification. I'm going to keep looking, but sadly looks like I may end up having to unlock all of the characters again.

[melkathi]

Good thing it takes me ages to actually do go to bed...

Go to your steam folder. Programm Files 86/Steam/Steamapps/common/Dungeon of the Endless or something like that.
In there find the Public folder and find a file named Gameconfig.xml
Make a backup.
Open the file using Wordpad.
Find the section were it has init unlocked heroes. It will have a number of heroes as initial unlocks including for example H0019.
Copy that code and use it to add initial unlocks for the hero IDs you want.
You can find the hero IDs on the respective heroes' pages on the wiki underneath the table with their stats.

[✿ UwU ✿]

Awesome, and appreciated. Didn't think to look under the public folder - thanks again!

[✿ UwU ✿]

That worked! Thanks again for the help!

[Fizban Frobozz]

This happened to me too, after a crash. I want a fix, I don't want to manually edit the files. Is this something the dev's are aware of yet?

[melkathi]

Originally posted by Solo Solitaire:

This happened to me too, after a crash. I want a fix, I don't want to manually edit the files. Is this something the dev's are aware of yet?

Yes it is. It is hard to track down though as you can imagine as there is nothing left in this situation for affected players to upload and help find the cause.

[✿ UwU ✿]

I'm guessing the main issue here is that, on a crash, somehow the gameconfig.xml file is consumed, corrupted, or has some sort of statechange that causes it to be rewritten. Once the game is exited, the rewritten file is then uploaded to the steam cloud. It could be that a quick backup might be to make a copy of the gameconfig file to compare against on launch of the game.

[Aether]

It worked for me, but the achievement are blocked cause of the file was edited.

A way to cancel that?

[melkathi]

Originally posted by R4d6:

It worked for me, but the achievement are blocked cause of the file was edited.

A way to cancel that?

Now that you have played the cloud will remember that you have the characters, so verify your gamecache or re-download for it to create an "unedited" version of the file and you should be fine :)

[katie kat]

thanks for knowledge on how to unlock characters with the xml file.
any way to unlock the ships same way?

[melkathi]

Originally posted by kenwud:

thanks for knowledge on how to unlock characters with the xml file.
any way to unlock the ships same way?

It has been a while, but I don't think you can, as those unlocks are tied to achievements.