Game Will Recognise Previous Save Game But Won't Import Character

[Quincy]

The game will recognise my final save from PoE1, but when it's time to import my character is no where to be seen. It recognised it from the base location. I've moved the saves into the POE2 folder as well but that also didn't work.

[Du-Vu]

Yeah, they left that really unclear. You do import your history from the first game, but the 'Import Character' option in character creation only works for characters built in the second game, characters you've already played, made in inns, or downloaded. So you would need to rebuild your character in the builder (because everyone starts at level 1, talents and abilities are rebalanced, and multiclassing is an option), and you'll be given the option to choose that history you imported later.

[psychotron666]

What do you mean it recognizes your save file but won't let you import? Like what exactly is happening?

Your character does not transfer over, you will always have to remake your character no matter what. What transfers over is all your choices from the first game. The import character function is if you export a character mid to end game from this game (Poe 2) to use that character in a new play through, or download someone else's pre made character, not importing character from the first.

At any rate you can use the history editor, and manually change every choice yourself with a new history, to be exactly like if you transferred your play through over from the first. The history editor covers everything that an imported character does that affects the second game

[Quincy]

Well, that's disappointing. Thank you for explaining that to me.

[Du-Vu]

Only at first. The visuals are completely reworked and you level up fairly quickly compared to the first game. Ability tiers now go up to 9 as opposed to 6 or 7 (I think?) in the first game. And there are new subclasses to try.

[psychotron666]

Once you play the game you'll realize why it makes sense. All classes were reworked, and multi classing is a massive additon, and the beginning gives you many reasons why your character can be changed.

For example, in my newest play through I am playing from a wood elf wizard from the first game , who was killed at the beginning and given new life from berath the god of death.

I made him have grey hair and scarred up to look like a pale elf now (while still being the wood elf) as he was brought back from the dead, and I made him a multi class wizard and priest of berath for role playing purposes. Going from a cocky clever type of character to a Stoic distant type of character. Now a half front line fighter/caster who uses wizard spells to buff up and do big area of effect with priest spells to do the same as well as heal.

He's still not a fan of the gods, but he's using power granted to him by the god of death in conjunction with his arcane abilities to track down eothas and defeat his enemies.

It's actually really fun to roleplay something like that. Or if you want you can simply make them like they were in the first game and continue your story.

[Simpson3k]

But if PoE 2 is able to read saves from PoE1 then would it be so hard to import the portrait, race, origin and forward the char creator to the former class of the imported char or something? I mean. the game tells you that you are the char who did everything you imported then died at destruction of your keep only to then all of a sudden create someone entirly different?

[Du-Vu]

I mean, it gives you that option, sure. Or you can just recreate your character as you remember them, right down to reusing the same portrait. Having the game remember your portrait and class for you versus the player remembering them and taking the few seconds it would take to pick them by hand doesn't really seem like it's really worth the work it would take to implement.