Will demo save transfer to furr version?

[Andrew R]

Thanks!

[Doublecrow_Gideon]

Unfortunately no. We've made some fundamental changes in the game and the data structure that made it pretty much impossible to transfer the data from the demo.
It does come with a lot of benefits: If you've played the demo, I'm sure you'll notice that the full game runs much smoother.

[Troy Muni]

Out of all of the games i've purchased in the past 2 years, the vast majority say this. But in reality, literally only one of them did not allow for it to be manually transferred. Chances are that it's 100% possible with a little manual manipulation. Developers won't tell you this because they don't want you to steam roll thru the content and refund the game before the 2hrs.

Originally posted by Andrew R:

Thanks!

If you can get me a copy of your save file, I'll do it for you.

[YellowAfterlife]

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

If you can get me a copy of your save file, I'll do it for you.

On a glance,

The game's save data is spread out across 10 JSON files.

The full version uses GUIDs to reference character types and alike:

  {
    "uniqueCharacterID": "db92f3a2-1e26-4643-9aaa-eae4220f2a96",
    "characterNameData": {

The demo mostly uses string names instead:

  {
    "uniqueCharacterID": "ftue_fighter_default",
    "characterNameData": {

It would seem that synergies got changed up a little.

A diff reveals that a few fields and objects aren't in the demo files (probably because they were added after that), though I am not sufficiently bothered to test if the game would automatically add them on load.

So anyway, you could write a converter with some effort, but also the level rewards scale semi-exponentially (you get ~300 gold out of the first level and ~30K out of the last level) so it doesn't take long to get up to speed with access to later levels, more so if you took note of what classes/synergies work well together (a sufficiently levelled pyromancer can carry the whole team).

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

Developers won't tell you this because they don't want you to steam roll thru the content and refund the game before the 2hrs.

That's an idea, though not sure if a legitimate concern for most games - a demo is typically no more than a third of a game, often less. And if a game takes something like 2.5 hours to beat on average, it most likely already deals with people trying to speedrun it within the refund window.

I would assume not wanting to promise backwards compatibility with hastily made Next Fest demos a more likely cause.