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Paratech2008 has Cat Goes Fishing

Jul 27, 2017 @ 10:02am

My save was deleted?

I decided to play the game after having not played it for a while and my save was gone.

I had over 5 hours into the game and lost all progress, why?

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crisis method actor has Cat Goes Fishing

Jul 27, 2017 @ 10:45am

My best guess is something to do with the steam cloud making a mistake. I doubt that's an issue specific to this game.

MotionBlur has Cat Goes Fishing

Jul 31, 2017 @ 12:27am

Hey, maybe try classic mode for faster reporgression.

C0010 [developer] Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:26pm

Originally posted by Marilyn Morose:
My best guess is something to do with the steam cloud making a mistake. I doubt that's an issue specific to this game.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Unfortunately, I think I have to actually take the blame for this one... Save files are (very slightly) unstable. Some computers seem to be more affected by the issue than others.

I'm really sorry that that happened.

I recommend backing up your save file from the ESC menu, especially if you have had issues with save instability before.

As it stands, it's exceptionally rare. Most user never experience any sort of save instability, and I'm hesistant to try and fix this entirely for fear of making it worse.

Last edited by C0010; Aug 1, 2017 @ 8:26pm

luckz

Nov 3, 2017 @ 11:23pm

Uh, isn't it maybe that recent versions don't load old savegames?

old: sdata7.ini
new: sdata7n.ini

C0010 [developer] Nov 4, 2017 @ 11:02am

You're correct that one is "old' and one is "new", but the latest versions should still load "sdata#.ini" files if you don't have an equivalent "sdata#n.ini" save; I think it would just wipe the quests. Those are definitely incompatible.

There's a good possibility that an extremely old save file (>1 year) is completely incompatible with a much newer build, but I try to keep them 100% compatible between consecutive major updates.

Opening the game once a major update should prevent any issues. But there's a trade-off between being able to easily continually update the game and guarantee 100% save file stability for all players.

That said, I recently made some changes that should make saves more stable.

Last edited by C0010; Nov 4, 2017 @ 11:06am