All trophies are gone.

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

Every single animal I have taxidermied is no longer. All my diamonds, albino lion, etc. And each time I go into my lodge it makes me create a new one. I thought it might be a steam sync issue, so I had that disabled then re enabled it with no change. Hunt club beta is such a consistent way to make my game crash that I'm very hesitant to enable it. Not ranting, just looking for maybe a fix. Cheers.

[cbrrrman]

I once had all my Moose antlers disappear... for a few days.
And then one day... they reappeared.
But haven't had all my trophy mounts do likewise... Yet.

I haven't checked that yet with this latest update tho'.
Won't be fun if my lodges become void of trophys.
Seems to be a continuing concern / bug with these lodges.

Guess I'll have to go take a look.

Edit : all three of my Spring Creek Lodges / Trophy mounts seem to be intact.

Is your issue specific to a particular lodge DLC ?

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

I only own the first lodge, and it worked as one would expect initially. I had a number of trophies placed at the time. But after coming back to the game from taking a few month break there is nothing, nor do they save if I were to pay the fee today after downing something. It takes my money, but the kill never shows up in trophy manager or in the placement window in the lodge.

[cbrrrman]

I usually save the animals first... then taxiderm the animals when I go to the trophy manager.
I rarely taxiderm an animal that I harvest... Tho' I have in the past without issue.

Are you going to the Trophy manager in search of the " Saved " files ?
I'm not sure how many animals can be taxidermized in that saved file.
But I do know it can only save up to 10 untaxidermized animals at one time.

You sure you're doing it right ?

I usually push " ESC " when in the lrophy manager at the lodge to go to the saved files.
There are two columns in the trophy manager...
1st column is existing trophies mounted in the lodge, 2nd column is the " Saved " file.

M > Trophy Lodge > ESC to access the Trophy manager while in the lodge > select existing Trophies or saved file.

Existing trophies are already on the mounts. Saved file are for trophies yet to be mounted.

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

I had done a few dozen shortly after buying the lodge. Had them all mounted and then stopped playing for a few months. Now I come back and I have to make a new lodge every time I want to go to it, because I suspect my save file has been corrupted or some nonsense. Either way, I know I'm doing it right, as it's terribly simple if one has the mental capability of a fruit fly or better. The trophies are simply not there in either the saved or existing menus, as though they're never saved even though I pay the money for each. I've contemplated erasing all of my progress and starting anew due to the possible corrupted save issue, but I'm not sure how much I care any more.

[cbrrrman]

Originally posted by Prophet_Of_Logik:

I had done a few dozen shortly after buying the lodge. Had them all mounted and then stopped playing for a few months. Now I come back and I have to make a new lodge every time I want to go to it, because I suspect my save file has been corrupted or some nonsense. Either way, I know I'm doing it right, as it's terribly simple if one has the mental capability of a fruit fly or better. The trophies are simply not there in either the saved or existing menus, as though they're never saved even though I pay the money for each. I've contemplated erasing all of my progress and starting anew due to the possible corrupted save issue, but I'm not sure how much I care any more.

check your file integrity on Steam lately ?
Possibly you do have some corrupted files.

Play using multi-player ever ?
Playing with stranger's can lead to corrupt files.
Because stranger's might take advantage of you.

I only play single-player... and occasionally multi-play with my son, whom can be trusted.

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

I've verified the integrity of my install twice this week, not a single file wrong both times.
That isn't very likely, 'being taken advantage of' in this games online mp part. Regardless I play a fair amount of mp, but I am always the host and it is with people I could trust with anything.

The long and short of my issues is I save a harvest to tax later, or tax before harvesting it. I can go to my lodge and play with any and all animals I've done the previous to, as long as I don't close the game. As soon and I quit Hunter Cotw and then come back to it next time, everything I have killed and saved and taxi'd is gone, never happened.

[cbrrrman]

Originally posted by Prophet_Of_Logik:

I've verified the integrity of my install twice this week, not a single file wrong both times.
That isn't very likely, 'being taken advantage of' in this games online mp part. Regardless I play a fair amount of mp, but I am always the host and it is with people I could trust with anything.

The long and short of my issues is I save a harvest to tax later, or tax before harvesting it. I can go to my lodge and play with any and all animals I've done the previous to, as long as I don't close the game. As soon and I quit Hunter Cotw and then come back to it next time, everything I have killed and saved and taxi'd is gone, never happened.

so the game is not saving ?

Maybe it has to do with a setting on Steam ?
Or maybe it has to do with your game settings ?

I'm not having that problem currently.
My game seems to save what I played last.

And I turned of the cloud off in the Steam settings.
So I know it's not that.
I'm not sure what to advise you. But I'd look at the Steam / Game settings.

Maybe someone else will know why the game is not saving ?

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

I've tried playing with syncing, hunt club beta, and no luck with any combination of them. It saves my character unlocks, like weapons and lures, but for some reason trophies aren't? I don't know man. I'd refund the game at this point if I could. Haven't been able to dig up any info relevant to my issue, and without developer help I feel like there is no way I'll be able to solve this. Thanks for trying, appreciate it anyway.

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

I'm actually pretty sure I managed to fix the issue. My cousin, who's a programmer, turned me onto a few things, and between the two of us we managed to figure a few things out.

The first being that in a persons My Documents folders is where all the relevant data is stored for a player, including trophies. Under Avalanche games for anyone who has this issue.

The second, and most interesting, is that about 6 months ago the devs changed the directory where all that data is stored. It used to be Documents\Avalanche Studios\theHunter Call of the Wild, now it is Documents\Avalanche Studios\COTW.

What ended up meaning for me, is I still had all the old data, which was pre me having owned the trophy lodge dlc. Coupled with constant and consistent crashes caused by The Hunt Club Beta ( Which I now have disabled) there's a good case for some corruption involved as well. It's my estimation that each time I played the game, then closed out, and then launched again, the game was finding something off in the new save location, and thereby replacing that with data from the old directory.

The solution: By moving the folder in Documents\Avalanche Studios, named theHunter Call of the Wild, outside the Avalanche games directory, and launching the game, I was able to harvest and taxi a blacktail deer. Placed it in my lodge and restarted my game. Upon launching the game once more, I did not need to remake my lodge, which has been going on since I came back to the game a few weeks ago. And, the deer I had killed and stuffed was still right where I set it up.

I haven't started the task of filling my lodge back up, but I'm 99% sure this was what was causing all of my issues. Makes me wish the devs would have converted the data from the old to the new one when they changed save locations, and removed conflicting data from the old.

One final note. The game will remake the "TheHunter Call of the Wild" folder, but there won't be anything but a few .json backups.

[RedFox]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/4/2619339675435598580/

[Prophet_Of_Logik]

Originally posted by RedFox:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/4/2619339675435598580/

Obviously there are more threads than mine regarding this issue. But the greater point is the hope that the more threads like this, dealing with issues as detailed in both this thread and the others, is that the devs actually push a fix on their end. There's no excuse for not fixing the problems that arise from an update that effectively blocks a large part of 'end game content'. I enjoy the game, and unlike some, feel that the developers are doing a passable job over all. But still the point remains that if an end user cannot fix a problem after taking reasonable steps to try and fix it, that means it's on the makers and technical support of said game.

We each need to do our part to keep game developers and publishers honest, and uphold them to the same standards that are expected in other areas of production for instance.