CLOUD SAVE PLEASE!!!

[lazypanda995]

Ive played this game for yeears. Ive dealt with my worlds not being compatible after updates and restarted countless times, and Im a little over it. So please, add cloud save... Its almost a must these days with companies launching portable handheld gaming PC's. I have an ROG Ally and use it all the time when Im travelling for work. I tend to only reserve room on it for games I can play offline and that have cloud save, so its not a pain to play on different systems... Ive loved this game for a long time and would love for it to be one of those games I can play on my Ally. PLEASE :)

[The Met4l God]

Having Steam Cloud support would be a nice addition to the game.

[Cor.]

Wont happen.

Its not that type of game.

[Ragequit Inc.]

The size of the saves in 7Days exceeds the capacity of Steam Cloud. In addition, this game is *constantly* saving data, so desync and corruption would be a major issue.

So no, it's not gonna happen. Call Master Gaben if you want this to change.

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

The size of the saves in 7Days exceeds the capacity of Steam Cloud. In addition, this game is *constantly* saving data, so desync and corruption would be a major issue.

So no, it's not gonna happen. Call Master Gaben if you want this to change.

Steam Cloud only syncs on game close.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

The size of the saves in 7Days exceeds the capacity of Steam Cloud. In addition, this game is *constantly* saving data, so desync and corruption would be a major issue.

So no, it's not gonna happen. Call Master Gaben if you want this to change.

Steam Cloud only syncs on game close.

So..?

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Steam Cloud only syncs on game close.

So..?

Constantly saving data is irrelevant as it only updates when the game terminates.

Also, reading the Steam Cloud documentation the developers can customize what gets uploaded.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

So..?

Constantly saving data is irrelevant as it only updates when the game terminates.

Also, reading the Steam Cloud documentation the developers can customize what gets uploaded.

Ok, fair enough. But still, it comes down to the *potential* size of the save files. Which is *potentially* way larger than Steam Cloud allows.

[Zero]

Cloud saves won't stop your saves from being incompatible.

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Constantly saving data is irrelevant as it only updates when the game terminates.

Also, reading the Steam Cloud documentation the developers can customize what gets uploaded.

Ok, fair enough. But still, it comes down to the *potential* size of the save files. Which is *potentially* way larger than Steam Cloud allows.

Originally posted by Zero:

Cloud saves won't stop your saves from being incompatible.

I would think that Steam Cloud is reasonably off the table until they stop breaking save files with updates.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.:

Ok, fair enough. But still, it comes down to the *potential* size of the save files. Which is *potentially* way larger than Steam Cloud allows.

Originally posted by Zero:

Cloud saves won't stop your saves from being incompatible.

I would think that Steam Cloud is reasonably off the table until they stop breaking save files with updates.

And for as long as game saves can take up a few gigabytes at a minimum.

[Pain Weasel]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

I would think that Steam Cloud is reasonably off the table until they stop breaking save files with updates.

And for as long as game saves can take up a few gigabytes at a minimum.

a few gigs at a miniumum huh?

Weird, my largest save is only 150MG and I've been playing for years. Every single save on my favorite map only comes to 5.5GB and there are over 60 of them.

You sure you know what "at a minimum" means?

[Blue Hasia]

So many people lack understanding of how this game works.

The game is constantly reading and writing to a huge file that can exceed a gigabyte in size as the game progresses and more of the world is loaded.

The constant read and write operations would introduce too much latency to run smoothly as the world loads and unloads around you.

It would also be a huge data killer for both the player and Steam. The constant need to read and write to the cloud would be enormous!

Some games just cannot be Steam Cloud compatible.

The best example is this game is like Minecraft: the world is in chunks, and as the player moves, it loads and unloads chunks around the player.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Pain Weasel:

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

And for as long as game saves can take up a few gigabytes at a minimum.

a few gigs at a miniumum huh?

Weird, my largest save is only 150MG and I've been playing for years. Every single save on my favorite map only comes to 5.5GB and there are over 60 of them.

You sure you know what "at a minimum" means?

Ok, so saves are a wee bit smaller now "at a minimum". I started a game and exited it, and it is around 500MB.

Still, they take up a good bit of space and it starts adding up fast. Save I started yesterday is already at 1.26GB. The map for that save is 416MB. Bringing the total amount of data that would be needed for a cloud backup to almost 1.8GB.
A typical long-term game can run over 10GB. I have seen single region files over a Gig if you do a lot of building in them.

Most games you have saves in the cloud for are less than 150MB each. Steam caps the data for a single cloud save at 1GB.

And consider the people who have limited network bandwidth or data caps. Can you imagine how they would feel if the game was syncing 3-5GB every time they played?

[Manucali]

Steam Cloud compatible

Hi,
Please make 7dtd Steam Cloud compatible (savegames on cloud).

Just want to play on my desktop PC and continue my game on my Steam Deck sometimes.

Thanks you (sorry for my english but i'm french).

[TheChallenger]

Originally posted by manucali55:

Hi,
Please make 7dtd Steam Cloud compatible (savegames on cloud).

Just want to play on my desktop PC and continue my game on my Steam Deck sometimes.

Thanks you (sorry for my english but i'm french).

yeah they should do it. i dunno how nvidia now users play singleplayer if theyr saves gets deleted after play session