Lost progress partial

[Buntkreuz]

So it seems my perkpoints are gone, aswell as ALL my weapon and equipment upgrades, without refunding their cost.
Instead of having several perks unlocked like before i now have enough points for exactly one of the starter perks.
My equipment upgrades are the worst though.
I had nearly all upgrades for 3 classes, now i have none at all. And since i didnt get back the materials for it, i see no reason to yet again play the game more to find the necessary minerals.

It already happened several times that my progress was reset, and fair enough since the entire system was reworked at one point. But at least i gained my materials back.
Its sad, i wanted to play again but now i have to wait until 1.0 hits because resetting all the upgrades everytime an update hits makes it a chore.

The next problem is, that my classes ranks arent correct.
I played mostly the gunner and now im set back to rank 2 and cant even upgrade beyond the first upgrade path.
I had a fully equipped gunner, with all the bonus weapons and so on and so forth. Now hes a total beginner (i was at level/rank 16 with the Gunner, now hes rank 2).

Also i grinded hard back when the new weapons hit the game, and now i have to do all of that....again.

Its also all mixed up. For example the Scout, the character i played the least of the three i pick, has the highest rank now. Hes ranked 13, which could be accurate, since engineer and Gunner were beyond 15 already.
However, its weird that his progress was partially carrying over, whereas all the others are set back to random numbers.
No assignments completed (i had several assignments done including nearly all the new weapon assignments), nothing.

So if one considers to buy the game now in Early Access, be prepared to have all your progress wiped anyway.

[Chrysalis]

There is a "Restore Save" function in the Game Options, maybe this could restore your lost progress.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Chrysalis:

There is a "Restore Save" function in the Game Options, maybe this could restore your lost progress.

sadly not. I tried that and there is only one backup save from last year, i played the game this year. And that progress is slightly further than the first progress loaded (my gunner now is rank 8 instead of rank 2 and has a few upgrades), yet there is literally 30 hours of gameplay lost in the void.

Its sad, will have to put the game down now until its released. Wont waste more playtime to then have to go through the basic stuff yet again. I have completed the tutorial missions (the starter assignments) easily 4 times now because every time an update hits it gets set back to default.
Im really tired of this. While i like unlocking stuff, i have to say it was much better in its early versions when there wasnt so much stuff to unlock.
I feel like i have to play the game 20 hours after each update to get to the same progress point and finally have the equipment i had before.
I wont do that all the time.

[Chibbity]

I've been playing since Steam release and never had any issues like this, not sure what happened to your save, but they are stored locally; do you play DRG on more than one computer?

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

I've been playing since Steam release and never had any issues like this, not sure what happened to your save, but they are stored locally; do you play DRG on more than one computer?

Nope, and when the last major update happened (the new weapons and upgrade paths) it worked without a problem, since the game refunded all materials i had used till then.
But not this time.
Since there are older saves available, i assume theres some sort of cloud save active. I ever have cloud saving enabled if a game supports that.

[Cactus-Cat]

It's weird that all backup saves have vanished. Did you look into the saves folder in the game files?

[Dargadon]

The best thing i can assume - you had Steam Cloud active at some point in the past and it saved your old progress. And now when you intentionaly or not activated it again for Deep Rock, it "synced" your local progress with uploaded one.

[Buntkreuz]

Really cant tell. All i know is, that im back to the progress of over a year ago.
Which is, ♥♥♥♥♥, to put it mildly.
As said, my conclusion to this is, i deinstalled the game and wait till release. I wont go through the unlocking process and material grind for certain upgrades again.
Yes, i like playing the game also without unlocking something, but especially the missions bound to the assignments and a few materials were tedious to do and i was happy to complete them.
Its a great game, but losing progress in it is just a big hit that took dozens of hours of playtime.

[Dargadon]

If you`re rolled one year back - it is definetly Steam Cloud related. Try to check Save folder (\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames) for renamed recent saves, because Steam Cloud ones are with your SteamID in their name. Back up (seriously, BACK UP) Save folder and try to fiddle with file names - your real save can be one of those.