Unlocks Resetting Bug

[spirit1230]

I've been really enjoying playing this game recently but I keep running into an issue where all but the first 5 of my unlocks keep resetting.

I haven't been able to work out whats causing this so far but it always resets my unlocks, high scores and points. I think it's also always resetting them to the same each time, so it's always the first 5 items I unlocked that don't get reset but all the rest do. It never resets any saved replays however.

I always play the game offline on the steam deck and other than this it runs great. I then sync it with the steam cloud every morning. The issue only seems to occur after I close the game and then shutdown the steam deck, just closing and reopening the game hasn't caused the issue so far.

It first happened when I left the game open during a run between stages but left the steam deck in sleep mode all day. The last time it happened though I closed the game and shutdown the steam deck then rebooted it about an hour later.

[danbo]

hi there,

i expect if the game was having trouble writing its save file then there would be more glaring issues (and a big error message), so i feel like this may be an issue with steam cloud sync falling out of whack somehow. you could try disabling cloud sync and seeing if the issue persists with just one device then re-enabling it

if you'd like to know where the save file is, maybe to back up the file and delete it to see if the issue persists -- on linux systems and deck it should be in something like ~/.local/share/love/blue-revolver-final or $XDG_DATA_HOME/love/blue-revolver-final

hope this helps fix your issue

[spirit1230]

I'll give it a shot, thank

[spirit1230]

This seems to have sorted the issue. Thanks!

Not sure if this is related but I noticed when backing up my saves that as well as the "blue-revolver-final" folder in "~/.local/share/love there was also a "blue-revolver-v09" folder. It didn't contain a save file but it did have a steam user id for syncing. Was wondering if it could have been related to the issue?

[spirit1230]

Actually, I just tried to move my save file from my steam deck to my desktop and load the game and it looks like the file saving isn't the one located in "~/.local/share/love/blue-revolver-final".

It's clearly saving on the steam deck but I have no idea where...

[danbo]

that's interesting, i don't really have an explanation for that. it doesn't seem like it would be either our game or some weird steam backend thing. in any case, glad it works

[danbo]

Originally posted by spirit1230:

Actually, I just tried to move my save file from my steam deck to my desktop and load the game and it looks like the file saving isn't the one located in "~/.local/share/love/blue-revolver-final".

It's clearly saving on the steam deck but I have no idea where...

hmmm. i don't have a deck to try things on but here are some terminal commands that might show a save directory:

• echo $XDG_DATA_HOME
  
• find -name blue-revolver-final

if the deck is running the game with proton for whatever reason, the save data wouldn't live there -- hopefully the latter command would find it

[spirit1230]

So I've managed to find the save data in "/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/blue-revolver-final" which was located in a folder with a random number in "~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata". This is definitely where it's saving it since I transferred the file to my desktop and the save data on my desktop now matches whats on the steam deck. It also had all my replays and the game config file.

I wonder if this is the folder where the game is reading and writing the save file but when steam is syncing with the cloud it's pulling the save file from the other file ("~/.local/share/love/blue-revolver-final"). This is then overwriting the save file normally used resetting certain features.

I have no idea though, disabling cloud sync definitely seems to fix the issue. Also it seems to be running Proton 7.0-6

Anyhow, thanks for your help, I shall continue to enjoy the game!