Game will delete your saves if select new game on a playthrough and say NO to overwrite.

[RazgrizAC]

so i discovered if you click new game and it brings you to your list of play-through slots (looking like a load game screen), clicking one of your play-throughs, EVEN if you say NO to the "are you sure you want to overwrite" (aka realising it wasn't load game after all),
it's too late. It has already deleted your entire play through.

Just lost 20 hours to this, the log file even clearly says 'deleting 45 saves from playthrough 1' was my example.

So even if you say no to the overwrite aka the 'final decision' it's already deleted everything.

Games been out what 6 years or something, is this a known thing and how is it still happening. What game decision has EVER happened before you even get the message 'are you sure'...

[Killer Kitten]

Is that what happened?! I just lost my save file yesterday and I was really confused! I did have a back up file, thank goodness, but still.

[DargonBlak]

are you checking the right directory ?

the in-game "playline" number is +1 higher than the directory number, right ?

[RazgrizAC]

Originally posted by DargonBlak:

are you checking the right directory ?

the in-game "playline" number is +1 higher than the directory number, right ?

Aye i found an old playthrough of mine I was ignoring and specifically repeated the above with that one to test.
Went new game, chose my playthrough 0, declined the 'are you sure' to go back to main menu and BAM gone.
Permenant.log in the main game folder.
<2024-02-11 19:21:54> Deleting all 40 savegames of playline 1
<2024-02-11 20:33:24> Deleting all 87 savegames of playline 0
P1 was my newest playthrough i was angry about, P0 was my old one from 2022 i didn't care about.

Try yourself see if you can replicate it, just be careful if you do!

[Gwym]

same thing happened here. Picked up the game again after 2 years, was actually a bit excited to play again. Boom, all gone.

[Drunk Rambo {The Dirty Dozen}]

Originally posted by RazgrizAC:

so i discovered if you click new game and it brings you to your list of play-through slots (looking like a load game screen), clicking one of your play-throughs, EVEN if you say NO to the "are you sure you want to overwrite" (aka realising it wasn't load game after all),
it's too late. It has already deleted your entire play through.

Just lost 20 hours to this, the log file even clearly says 'deleting 45 saves from playthrough 1' was my example.

So even if you say no to the overwrite aka the 'final decision' it's already deleted everything.

Games been out what 6 years or something, is this a known thing and how is it still happening. What game decision has EVER happened before you even get the message 'are you sure'...

You can access ALL your old saved files via the Steam Cloud
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

Did you try your cloud saved files?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[RazgrizAC]

Yup checked that. I'm afraid if this situation happens it zergs your cloud saves too.
After i lost my new playthrough i checked, it only had records of my 2022 saves.

Then when i tested this with my old playthrough and it got deleted, they disappeared from cloud too!

[Bandy]

disable cloud saves and manage your own files. you will do a better job.

[RazgrizAC]

Originally posted by Bandy:

disable cloud saves and manage your own files. you will do a better job.

Perhaps but that has no baring on the issue here. This is a KCD problem.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by RazgrizAC:

Originally posted by Bandy:

disable cloud saves and manage your own files. you will do a better job.

Perhaps but that has no baring on the issue here. This is a KCD problem.

Yes, but no, if you back up your saves properly it is a non-issue. Unless I missed something....

[RazgrizAC]

Originally posted by Bandy:

Originally posted by RazgrizAC:

Perhaps but that has no baring on the issue here. This is a KCD problem.

Yes, but no, if you back up your saves properly it is a non-issue. Unless I missed something....

As far as i would presume if you overwrite a playthrough of KCD it fully deletes everything, there aren't any backups done automatically. As dumb as this is anyway, the issue is it does all this deleting even if you say NO to overwrite. It already happened.

I don't think anyone is expected to copy a save folder for every game they have every time they play a game. The game shouldn't be zerging all your files in general.

[D R I V E]

This just happened to my new playthrough I was doing before KCD 2.

CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
CryGFxFileOpener::OpenFile(), 'Libs/UI//map.gfx', flags:33
Deleting all 18 savegames of playline 3
Quit requested by CUIGameEvents::OnExitGame()

Absolute joke! Why on earth would it do this? Once I quit the game it synced the cloud and deleted them too. I'm trying recovery software now but its an NVME so not optimistic about recovering.

[Ayahuasca]

I dont use the cloud and still have saves from 2018 ......I say you screwed up meaning "user errors" you deleted your saves .......there is no "bug"

[D R I V E]

Originally posted by Ayahuasca:

I dont use the cloud and still have saves from 2018 ......I say you screwed up meaning "user errors" you deleted your saves .......there is no "bug"

It's nothing to do with the cloud.

If you click new game and select a playline it will delete the entire playline even if you say no to overwrite. Just clicking the playline is enough to overwrite. It's easy to accidentally do if you are rushing to reload.

[Apocalypse]

If you are lucky you can recover your save with this method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYNYNxJHHs&ab_channel=TheGreenLing

[Capcheeks]

I think you just discovered a long-standing bug that never came to light before. This is honestly the first time I've heard of this so you might want to inform the devs. I'm guessing more people are gonna come around to replaying KCD eventually with the sequel coming this year, best if they don't end up in the same boat with this bug.