Lost all save progress

[BEAN SOUP]

I must have put in almost 5 hours into this game and I've lost all progress except for the story missions I've completed.

[dorsia]

Same

[Greed Is Addiction]

Originally posted by Feng is fasecampe:

I must have put in almost 5 hours into this game and I've lost all progress except for the story missions I've completed.

If you check the forums regularly, this has been a common issue since the game came out. It doesn't pay to be an early adopter and pay the most just to experience all the bugs.

[Dutch]

Did you check the backup save spot?
C:\Users\User\Documents\dying light 2\out\save_backups

If it's in there then put it back in here->
[Steam Folder]/userdata/[User ID]/534380/remote/out/

[ScaryTeddyBear]

Yo, the same thing had happened to me. I started today, and my save was missing. I just restarted my PC, or rather, Steam, and restarted the game. Then, my save was there.

Remember to back up ur saves people. It is located in your Documents folder It is a folder called "Dying Light 2", it is NOT located in the steamapps, User Folders...

[Gutsu]

I had this issue, Alt F4 imediatly then restarted the game and it loaded them.

[BEAN SOUP]

I found out it was because my antivirus was preventing the game from saving somehow. I had to add it to the safe programs list. Now the game saves everything fine.

[As5Hat]

i have a friend with 70 hours, now the autosave is corrupt and he has to start over. Why the hell is there ONLY autosave in an open world game like this. Terrible idea since there are bound to be save related bugs and death loops, etc

[Rockyplaya]

Originally posted by Dutch:

Did you check the backup save spot?
C:\Users\User\Documents\dying light 2\out\save_backups

If it's in there then put it back in here->
[Steam Folder]/userdata/[User ID]/534380/remote/out/

The thing is, my game doesn't recognize the backup (it says access denied when ingame).

I don't know why, but my game gets reset when I boot it up, it's as if I booted the game for the first time and all of my settings get reset to default, my save file is gone and I can't use the backup file that it provides me in the documents.

I just lost probably 2 days worth (or more idk) of gameplay.
Now I have to redo for the second time, the whole game up until the point I was at AGAIN.

[rusty666]

I recovered it by going to [Steam Folder]/userdata/[User ID]/534380/remote/out/save

there was a larger file in there called save_main_0_chp000.sbk so I renamed it to save_main_0.sav and started the game, it was a couple of days out but better than starting again

[Leto|The Antagonist]

Bro, I Just lost like 8 Hours and it does not Load a saver pass a certain point and so I restarted hoping that that would fix it but no what the ♥♥♥♥ do I do.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by As5Hat:

i have a friend with 70 hours, now the autosave is corrupt and he has to start over. Why the hell is there ONLY autosave in an open world game like this. Terrible idea since there are bound to be save related bugs and death loops, etc

I think theres two saves usually. Youd have to check dying light too in yor documents, and or game folder. Might even be 3, since theres also a back up. BUT yeah I agree it should have like 5 auto saves at the same time, just incase one gets messed up. BUT theres also could file save as well. For a game like this, after every play session you could copy past your save file.

[REL]

This is still sadly a problem in 2024. Incredible.

[Ghastous™]

Originally posted by REL:

This is still sadly a problem in 2024. Incredible.

Sure is. I just restarted a new game played about 5hrs then quit the game and when i booted it back up my save just isnt there at all only my old save. What a garbage system they have instead of a manual save system.

[Judith]

same happened to me i had a 50-60 hour save, i just re downloaded the game today and i see that it restarts me at the very begging of the game with nothing but my inventory being saved same happened to my friend today as well