Give the game more SAVE SLOTS, because it's buggy!

[mad_ias]

As the title says:
I lost at least 3 hours of gameplay, due a crash and a timestamp mismatch steam cloud vs local save data.
Sorry, the 2-game-slot-policy is just ♥♥♥♥, because the game can override with bad data - so you lost everything.
Why I'm so angry:
Because I 've done ZIP backups of the AppData/Roming/HelloGames/NMS after every session, because I KNOW that this policy WILL loose your game process.
At least: There is really no afford creating backups of the game saves automatically - so DO IT.
Thank you for nothing, devs, I'm totally pissed.

[mad_ias]

Here I found a little batch for a save game backup (windows only):
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3841053598847851657/
just make a "NMS save backup" folder on your Desktop, enter your username in the xcopy line below and hit the cmd from time to time.

echo off

set folder=%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%
set folder=%folder: =0%
mkdir %folder%

echo %folder% created

xcopy "C:\Users\yourusernamehere\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS" %folder% /E

[Chirico Cuvie]

That's why I turned of cloud syncing in Steam and occasionally zip backup my local saves instead:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_<numbers>

[zyk]

+1
First time player. Thought it would be in good state this patch. Guess not.

Played in total 10 hours in VR over two sessions.
Batteries died.
Played 10 hours in 2D.

Started VR today and got save file conflict, 10 minutes apart.
Selecting the 'newer' cloud meant:

My inventory is swizz cheese again. (~10-15 drop pod misssions..)
I have to redo main story stuff.
Find and rebuy cool multitool and upgrade it again
Redo exosuit upgrades (muh jetpaaack...)
Redo my base.

In hindsight I should have checked the forums before selecting (which is hard to do while in VR). But 8 years after release, bugs like this _should_ have been fixed at least.

My motivation is gone and not sure If I'm gonna continue to play.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk and remember folks, the cloud is an illusion.

[Del-Dredd]

Never used Cloud saves and never had an issue with saves from day one 2016.
I do not use cloud saves on any game, easier to make your own backups if you want which I do regularly.

[Del-Dredd]

Początkowo opublikowane przez mad_ias:

Początkowo opublikowane przez pRaX:

Ever tried disabling cloud saves?

nope. I play it on two PCs - so I wanna keep the benefit of cloud games. Maybe steam should make a backup of BOTH in conflict situations, because you have the dialoge and no chance to retry your decision.

Easy enough to make a backup of save folder and copy to the other PC and visa versa.

[deetos]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Grace:

this is why i pirate

you do know piracy is illegal right?
you broke depressed slug

[deetos]

Początkowo opublikowane przez pRaX:

Początkowo opublikowane przez 1P27:

all these new players complaining about all the stuff they get back then we had no multiplayer, one save, no base building nothing

"All these ♥♥♥♥ sapiens complaining. We just had caves, clubs and everything wanted to kill us."
That's how you sound like.
It's a valid complaint.

One save, no multiplayer, no creative survival or any of that stuff, no freighters, no base building, no third person mode, one ship, no exocraft, one multitool you get the point I'm just telling them to be grateful for what they have

[mad_ias]

Początkowo opublikowane przez zyk:

+1
First time player. Thought it would be in good state this patch. Guess not.

Played in total 10 hours in VR over two sessions.
Batteries died.
Played 10 hours in 2D.

Started VR today and got save file conflict, 10 minutes apart.
Selecting the 'newer' cloud meant:

My inventory is swizz cheese again. (~10-15 drop pod misssions..)
I have to redo main story stuff.
Find and rebuy cool multitool and upgrade it again
Redo exosuit upgrades (muh jetpaaack...)
Redo my base.
.

Ok, this could be the answer for the bug!
I also played in VR, switched back to "normal" mode - than a crash and got a save file mismatch!

[Rexxer]

I back up directly from the NMS folder regularly because corrupting data is a very distinct possibility. Don't rely on a single save file, (albeit with 2 save spots).

[MsBarrows]

I'd be happy if they just went back to one of the saves being under our control for saving, What's the point of me manually using a save point item or purposefully entering and exiting my ship to force a save at a specific point in gameplay, when x amount of time later the game forcefully overwrites it? If the autosave was only affecting one slot while we retained control of the second it would be much more tolerable. As it is I've had to create a manual batch I can run that duplicates my saves to a backup location (and a second to restore it from there), so I have something I can revert to when, for example, trying to find a live starship I like the look of.

For anyone interested, this is pretty simple, it just involves creating a text file named something like NMS_Backup.bat basically containing your equivalent of:

robocopy "C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS" "E:\_BACKUPS\No Man's Sky\Saves" *.* /mir

This is using Windows' built in robocopy command to mirror (/mir) everything it finds in the first listed location to the second listed location. Mirroring means it duplicates all files and folders at or below the folder specified, including removing from the second location any that are no longer in the first. To use it I right-click on the .bat in the file list and Run As Administrator (since it's working with User folders, a protected location). And then I also have a NMS_Restore.bat with the two URLs reversed in order to copy everything back (exit the game before running that one).