Reverting to a past save possible?

[llanita]

Is there a way to revert to a save in the directory? I thought I had 8 ships total, so I took a crashed ship to sell it and my explorer is now gone because I gad 9 prior to the crashed one. I didn't notice if there was a warning or not or I wouldn't have taken it

[Jaggid Edje]

The game only keeps 2 saves, your restore point and your autosave. They both show on the options screen while you are playing the save and either can be loaded from there. THere are no 'older' backups than that unless you have taken active measures to make backups of your save folder.

That said, the game doesn't let you claim a crashed ship if you don't have any free ship slots. So...are you sure you aren't mistaken about losing your explorer? Or did you accidentally 'exchange' ships rather than just claim the free one?

[Tatwi]

In Windows, Steam saved games for NMS are stored in

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_LONG_NUMBER

You can back up and restore either the saved files themselves or the entire directory regularly however you'd like (and later delete/replace the files/dir to restore a previous version). If you use Steam Cloud Saves, it will tell you there is a difference and will then overwrite the cloud version with the version that is on your computer (I think you get to choose which save version to use).

[llanita]

Ok so I can't pick a specific spot in the save file? Unless I back it up like daily?

[llanita]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

The game only keeps 2 saves, your restore point and your autosave. They both show on the options screen while you are playing the save and either can be loaded from there. THere are no 'older' backups than that unless you have taken active measures to make backups of your save folder.

That said, the game doesn't let you claim a crashed ship if you don't have any free ship slots. So...are you sure you aren't mistaken about losing your explorer? Or did you accidentally 'exchange' ships rather than just claim the free one?

Oh well it's good to know the game won't let you add a crashed ship, so where on earth is my explorer? Oh my gosh, I hope I didn't exchange them! I'm pretty sure I chose to add it

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by llanita:

Ok so I can't pick a specific spot in the save file? Unless I back it up like daily?

Correct.

I use a program called Game Backup monitor [github.com]which automatically makes a zip file that backs up the save games every time you exit the game. It also lets you specify how many total backups to keep around (so it will auto-delete older zip files beyond that setting).
Very useful, and it works for all games, not just NMS. I'm lazy, anything that automates doing something is good to me.

[llanita]

Thanks for your help guys. I appreciate it

[Guyver8]

when your ship collection is full any other ship you attempt to buy will NOT have the 'purchase' button only the exchange

[llanita]

Originally posted by Guyver8:

when your ship collection is full any other ship you attempt to buy will NOT have the 'purchase' button only the exchange

I did not know this. Thank you very much

[MarStrMind]

You can only go back to a previous save if you made a backup of a specific save. I make backups every day, so I can roll back to earlier saves if I want.

[llanita]

Does saving your daily saves, affect the Steam cloud saves? Also I checked on the Game Backup Monitor and its a tad bit too confusing. Is there a simper way of doing the daily saves?

[llanita]

Originally posted by MarcusInVR:

You can only go back to a previous save if you made a backup of a specific save. I make backups every day, so I can roll back to earlier saves if I want.

Steam does daily backup saves also, wouldnt that be the same as what you do?

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by llanita:

Steam does daily backup saves also, wouldnt that be the same as what you do?

Steam does not do daily backups, unless you are talking about Steam Cloud syncing, which isn't a daily thing...it's a constant thing whenever you play the game.

Considering Steam Cloud is known to occasionally cause loss of a save file entirely (in many games) most of us do not have it enabled.

[llanita]

Oh I see. Well I do apprecite you guys' patience. Thank you very much

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by llanita:

Oh well it's good to know the game won't let you add a crashed ship, so where on earth is my explorer? Oh my gosh, I hope I didn't exchange them! I'm pretty sure I chose to add it

When you reach the limit of ships you can claim, the game will automatically tell you that you can either claim the (new) ship or "exchange" it. If you accidentally hit "exchange" then you lost your explorer. Exchange means you leave your ship behind where you last parked it and the game eventually forgets about it. If you haven't gone very far, your old ship will still be where you left it, and you can add it back,...but you have to know where you left it.

I have accidentally done that before, but I never lost a ship as I have quickly gone back to where I left it and reclaimed it. Also I also back up the save file all the time so even if I forgot where I made the exchange, I can always reload a prior save. Also, at every significant stop, I take a screen shot with the coordinates, so its also easy to return to such sites. It's a good idea whenever you want to permanently record where you are to:
(1) screenshot while your scanner is running, - that gives the local coordinates
(2) screenshot the galactic portal coordinates: go into photo mode, then use either your computer's screenshot mode, or STEAM's if you are using that. You can't actually use the game's photo mode picture as it strips the lettering off the picture, (so it looks good), - you need to use the local screenshot hotkey to take the picture.

[Quambas]

Wow the saving in this game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage. Editing my save ♥♥♥♥ this

yeah I bumped this year old post ♥♥♥♥ you