Cloud saves not working?

[thenightgaunt]

I just picked up Stellaris and I've got it running on both my laptop and desktop (windows 10). I've got steam cloud saves working fine on other games.
I've gone into the ingame settings on both platforms and made sure to select the option to autosave to the cloud. And double checking it's still selected hours later.

But so far the game will not upload of download saves from the steam cloud.
Has anyone had this issue?

The one odd thing is that on the Paradox launcher, the logo icon on the top left side has a red dot on it and says "something went wrong when updating the launcher. please contact support".

[The Singularious]

Likewise, my cloud saves are not working, despite having the options enabled.

Anyone have a solve for this issue? It is a bit frustrating to see this as a featured optioned prior to purchasing and now finding that it does not work (or doesn't for me, anyway).

[thenightgaunt]

I managed to get it to work.
I had to make sure the paradox launcher was updated before it would let me log in. That required following an odd set of instructions to uninstall the launcher, then delete the folders and files related to it from my pc. Then having steam reinstall it by trying to launch the game again.

THEN when saving, even if you have could saves enabled in the settings, under your save file's name there's a little check box. If you select it, the game will save THAT save file to the cloud. But it WON'T store it locally if you do that. Meaning that if you're offline, that save won't be available.

So to get this to work, I have a local (unchecked box) save, and a cloud save.
This is a monstrously bad way to handle cloud saves.
Why didn't they just use the Steam Cloud save system like every other game on the platform?

[The Singularious]

Thank you thenightgaunt. I will try this. And I am not surprised. Paradox has always been maddening in this way.