Far cry 5 doesn't save

[Lyszak]

Hi my friend have problem he's game cannot save we wanted to play coop any solutions?

[Ubi_TheBerry]

Originally posted by Lyszak:

Hi my friend have problem he's game cannot save we wanted to play coop any solutions?

Hey Lyszak,

It'd be preferable if they reached out to us too so we can offer more tailored support.

Do they experiencing any errors / crashes / freezes when attempting to save?

Have they attempted any troubleshooting steps such as verifying the game's files[ubi.li] or running the game as an admin[ubi.li]?

- Ubisoft Support

[MikChan]

The game doesn't save

My game doesn't save between no matter what I do. I tried to start the campaign 3 times already, as soon as I restart the game, all save data is gone. This renders the game completely unplayable, I can't possibly beat it in one go.
And yes, I verified the game files and tried to run it as an admin. It does not help.

[Lyszak]

he tried with verifying files and running games as an admin , he didn't experience any lags or freezes he reinstall game twice

[Ubi_TheBerry]

Hey guys,

MikChan - I've merged your thread here.

Please could you provide more details as requested above regarding any errors when saving?

Lyszak - please could you have your friend contact us directly via our Support Site[ubi.li] , Facebook[ubi.li] or Twitter[ubi.li] so we can look into this further with them.

Thank you!

- Ubisoft Support

[MikChan]

No errors whatsoever, the save just disappears whenever I restart the game.

[MikChan]

OK, it seems like I fixed it somehow. That's what I did:
1. Disabled the Cloud Save feature in Ubisoft Connect settings
2. Removed the save folder
3. Started the game via Ubisoft Connect, started a new campaign, and kept playing till the first save
4. Closed the game and re-enabled the Cloud Save feature
5. Started the game again and choose to use the local save when prompted
6. Voila, now I can save the game

Seems like the save file might get corrupted and if so, the Ubisoft Connect cloud save feature just uploads it to the cloud and forces it upon you anytime you run a game. And whenever the game receives a corrupted save file, it just refuses to load it properly and subsequently doesn't save the game properly and keeps the old save as corrupted as it was before. And that happens completely silently and there's no way to even get a hint that something is wrong before you stop the game and run it again. It took me 20+ hours of my not-endless life to figure this out (and the fact that the intro cut-scene is unskippable did not help it for sure). This is a major bug, and judging by the number of people on the Internet who have the same problem, you guys on Ubisoft had to handle it years ago instead of just mindlessly giving the advice to run the game as admin which really changes nothing.

[Ubi Milky]

Thank you for your feedback MikChan, running the game as admin is a common solution for physical save file problems, as not running the game as admin can sometimes prevent a game from being able to edit the save file and save the changes made in game.

What you seem to have encountered was a conflict between your physical save file and cloud save file/options which can sometimes happen in our games, due to Steam having their own cloud saves that might conflict with the Ubisoft Connect cloud save options too.

Thanks for sharing your solution with us in the meantime, to disable and re-enable cloud saves, I will mark your thread as resolved, thank you

-Ubisoft Support