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SerratedSaturn Jun 9, 2022 @ 11:13pm
Losing ironman save game progress consistently
Hey guys, is anyone else experiencing a loss in ironman save progress? It's happened several times already. I'm playing ironman just fine, and then when I try to exit to menu this occurs:
-it loads to menu
-it almost immediately opens the game back again, but this time it opens an older save (sometimes decades older)

Additionally I've had some save game loss when exiting directly to desktop. This is super frustrating since it's essentially hours worth of time lost. Basically makes me not want to play the game, or at the very least not play ironman...which is the game mode I vastly prefer.
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Meewec Jun 9, 2022 @ 11:31pm 
is it a cloud save issue maybe?
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Ryika Jun 9, 2022 @ 11:36pm 
No idea about the actual issue, but you don't need to save in the cloud to be able to play Ironman. Just switch to local saves in the options.
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SerratedSaturn Jun 11, 2022 @ 1:51am 
Originally posted by Ryika:
No idea about the actual issue, but you don't need to save in the cloud to be able to play Ironman. Just switch to local saves in the options.

Are you sure? I could have sworn that when I turned off cloud saving it said that I was unable to turn on ironman...
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SerratedSaturn Jun 11, 2022 @ 1:52am 
Originally posted by Meewec:
is it a cloud save issue maybe?

I only use one device, and sometimes it does work. I'm not sure where the issue is coming from :(
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SaD-82 Jun 11, 2022 @ 1:55am 
Originally posted by SerratedSaturn:
Are you sure? I could have sworn that when I turned off cloud saving it said that I was unable to turn on ironman...

For starting a new ironman game cloud save has to be on. But after starting it you can turn it off and never turn it back again (until you start a new ironman).
Last edited by SaD-82; Jun 11, 2022 @ 1:56am
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Ryika Jun 11, 2022 @ 2:07am 
Originally posted by SerratedSaturn:
Are you sure? I could have sworn that when I turned off cloud saving it said that I was unable to turn on ironman...
Cloud Saving must be active in Steam, but you don't actually need to save to the cloud. Both save options work.

You can even switch between them mid-game to get a second Ironman Save Slot, but don't tell the devs. ;)
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ScreamCon Jun 11, 2022 @ 2:11am 
Make conspiracy that its your hardware model or ware on it, try alternative hardware and see
Make conspiracy that its your software corrupted reinstalling, wiping, reformatting hard drive
Make conspiracy that its your hardware software driver issue. try different drivers not for rig

also trivial note, why is 'hardware' a compound word but 'hard drive' isn't lol
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Meewec Jun 11, 2022 @ 2:20am 
Originally posted by ScreamCon:
also trivial note, why is 'hardware' a compound word but 'hard drive' isn't lol
probably something to do with it would sound weird

plus hardware is several hundred years old
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SerratedSaturn Jun 11, 2022 @ 5:27am 
Originally posted by Ryika:
Originally posted by SerratedSaturn:
Are you sure? I could have sworn that when I turned off cloud saving it said that I was unable to turn on ironman...
Cloud Saving must be active in Steam, but you don't actually need to save to the cloud. Both save options work.

You can even switch between them mid-game to get a second Ironman Save Slot, but don't tell the devs. ;)

So I figured out how to start an ironman without saving to the cloud and played for several hours today. I backed out to menu and saw that it supposedly saved. Then I tried to load back in and guess what happened? I ended up losing over 45 or so in game years and essentially went back to year one lol. Such a shame, makes me not want to play this game anymore if I'll just end up with wasted time.
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SerratedSaturn Jun 11, 2022 @ 5:28am 
Originally posted by SaD-82:
Originally posted by SerratedSaturn:
Are you sure? I could have sworn that when I turned off cloud saving it said that I was unable to turn on ironman...

For starting a new ironman game cloud save has to be on. But after starting it you can turn it off and never turn it back again (until you start a new ironman).

Yeah I figured it out, you need to have cloud saving enabled on steam for stellaris, and then you go into the menu when you open the game and tell it to save off the cloud. However, when I tested this out today, I still lost several decades of game progress.
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sam_vill Jun 12, 2022 @ 5:34am 
same bugs here hope they patch it next week
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NemoMagnus Jun 12, 2022 @ 10:20am 
Are you accidentally double hitting 'Resume' twice from the launcher? I noticed this happening not too long ago and figured out that it was just because the launcher can take a good half minute to do anything after hitting the 'Resume' or 'Play' buttons and I was hitting it twice.
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SerratedSaturn Jun 13, 2022 @ 1:48am 
Originally posted by sam_vill:
same bugs here hope they patch it next week

Apparently this is a known issue. I opened up a ticket with paradox and the person mentioned that other's seem to be dealing with this in the current patch.
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SerratedSaturn Jun 13, 2022 @ 1:49am 
Originally posted by NemoMagnus:
Are you accidentally double hitting 'Resume' twice from the launcher? I noticed this happening not too long ago and figured out that it was just because the launcher can take a good half minute to do anything after hitting the 'Resume' or 'Play' buttons and I was hitting it twice.

Nah, sometimes I exit to menu and it automatically loads an earlier version of the game unprompted. Other times I try to resume and it's an older save, I don't know what's going on lol. I've usually tried to just open the game back up when dealing with this issue, rather than hitting resume
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