Does Subnautica work with Steam Cloud?

[AR]

I got a new gaming computer and am trying to play on that without having to start over from the beginning but I'm not seeing my saved game when I launch the game, meaning it didn't sync to the Cloud, I'm assuming. I tried backing up my game files but once I did that I couldn't figure out how to get those backed up game files onto my new computer. Any help would be appreciated!

[Cougarific]

No, the save files are too big right now. The devs have said that they hope to shrink them enough to allow for cloud saving by launch.

[AR]

Publicado originalmente por Cougarific:

No, the save files are too big right now. The devs have said that they hope to shrink them enough to allow for cloud saving by launch.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

[Septevar]

(drive steam is on):\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Subnautica\SNAppData\SavedGames

move your save from old PC with USB memory stick to the new PC and put it in this folder and you can keep playing

[Buon Tia]

I wonder why the save files are so huge, looking at the files themselves it seems every little change you make to the world is saved into a separate text file with some form of coordinates and attributes... that doesn't seem very optimal to me, I am confident that they will find a way to make the save files smaller, it might be tedious work but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a better solution.

[Mortemas]

They probably save the data uncompressed so they can troubleshoot while still in development and will save it as a compressed file when 1.0 is ready.

[Wylie28]

Publicado originalmente por Buon Tia:

I wonder why the save files are so huge, looking at the files themselves it seems every little change you make to the world is saved into a separate text file with some form of coordinates and attributes... that doesn't seem very optimal to me, I am confident that they will find a way to make the save files smaller, it might be tedious work but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a better solution.

Teraforming. You used to be able to edit every bit of terrain. This means the terrain data had to be part of the save file. The enire game is built around the system so its not so simple to just remove from the save file.

[Cougarific]

FYI the devs have pushed the save-file-shrinking to post-release:

https://trello.com/c/Y9NzmYI5/258-compress-save-files

https://trello.com/c/DbwScYnS/209-cloud-save

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Publicado originalmente por Cougarific:

FYI the devs have pushed the save-file-shrinking to post-release:

https://trello.com/c/Y9NzmYI5/258-compress-save-files

https://trello.com/c/DbwScYnS/209-cloud-save

They're actually thinking of making it expansion...

So meh, bb UWE.

if it doesnt come to vanilla, screw you.

They ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ said said they would implement this back in october allready.

And yes, I necro'd, deal with this.

[Wylie28]

Publicado originalmente por NaliWarcow ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

Publicado originalmente por Cougarific:

FYI the devs have pushed the save-file-shrinking to post-release:

https://trello.com/c/Y9NzmYI5/258-compress-save-files

https://trello.com/c/DbwScYnS/209-cloud-save

They're actually thinking of making it expansion...

So meh, bb UWE.

if it doesnt come to vanilla, screw you.

They ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ said said they would implement this back in october allready.

And yes, I necro'd, deal with this.

They said they would try. And they did. Steam cloud saves are a mess right now anyway. In the past month ive had 3 corrupted saves and 2 games that would not save at all.

[ohhwell0525]

Necro. This still irks the heck out of me.

[Phoenix]

Yeah, but did you have to necro that other cloud-saves thread as well, only to ♥♥♥♥♥ about a post unrelated to the issue at hand? It's not like that is going to change anything. Cloud saves won't be enabled as long as the saves are as big as they are atm.