Cloud Saving on Switch + Epic, not Steam

[loudmog]

I would prefer to play it here but lost my three hour file once already not realizing it wasn't in the game. With a newborn, it's difficult to find time to just regrind out what I already did.

The game launched on EPIC's store with Cloud Saves... is it safe to assume it's never coming here?

[Wok]

Apparently, Epic does not support Cloud Saves for HLD yet. There are serious issues.

[Soüp]

Epic just announced on their Twitter this morning that they disabled the functionality in this game due to "technical issues" (it was also crashing EGS, which they're fixing.) Looking at PC Gaming Wiki apparently this game does some weird stuff with the save files and won't load them on other PCs so that's probably why cloud saves are disabled on every platform.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by Soüp:

Epic just announced on their Twitter this morning that they disabled the functionality in this game due to "technical issues" (it was also crashing EGS, which they're fixing.) Looking at PC Gaming Wiki apparently this game does some weird stuff with the save files and won't load them on other PCs so that's probably why cloud saves are disabled on every platform.

Yup, technically only Origin have cloud support for this game but even then they don't update (understandably) the machine-specific header of the save files, so users would find their saves undetected on other systems until they manually update the files according to the instructions on PCGW[pcgamingwiki.com].

There's really no reason to use this kind of a machine-specific header so... it's just... weird...

[loudmog]

That is pretty weird that it includes some machine-specific information in the save-file. Perhaps because this was the developer's first game? I can't imagine there was malicious intent here, but I've been wrong before.

I didn't know that EGS had disabled Cloud Saving -- in fact, when I saw that it released for free on EGS, I didn't attempt anything myself, but I did immediately Google whether or not it supported it since I knew it didn't here.

Didn't realize Origin sells this as well. I like platform-based achievements, so I wish the Steam version had cloud saves, but that'll probably never happen.

The Nintendo Switch version has some extra content-- does the Epic version have that content as well or is that specific to Nintendo platforms?

[John]

Originally posted by loudmog:

The Nintendo Switch version has some extra content-- does the Epic version have that content as well or is that specific to Nintendo platforms?

Don't quote me on it but my guess is it's the same as Steam. The extra content in the Switch version was done by a third party and I believe the point was exclusivity. It wouldn't make much sense if they invested to bring that stuff to Epic and left the larger player base on Steam behind.

[loudmog]

Originally posted by John:

Originally posted by loudmog:

The Nintendo Switch version has some extra content-- does the Epic version have that content as well or is that specific to Nintendo platforms?

Don't quote me on it but my guess is it's the same as Steam. The extra content in the Switch version was done by a third party and I believe the point was exclusivity. It wouldn't make much sense if they invested to bring that stuff to Epic and left the larger player base on Steam behind.

Fair enough, that makes sense... thanks for the insight