Save file gone

[KonoSuba]

After i pass all the current mission and killed 2 bears, there comes an update and my save file is gone. I'm gonna keep this game inside my refrigerator until its complete develop.

[funkmonster7]

That's Early Access game for ya. I'm surprised how many people don't understand how Early Access works...

I actually lost a character for unknown reason. I'm wondering if I accidentally deleted it. It wasn't an update or anything, it just disappeared, that's after the game crashed upon starting. What'd I do? Just make a new character......................................... Big deal.

[Kazouie]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/625960/discussions/0/1743392870836702758/

[Redbeard]

Yeah same thing happened to me.. I think it's because I deleted the Prologue? At a guess.

I finished Stone Shard: Prologue, bought the game, and was pleasantly surprised to find my key mappings had migrated over and the full game had considered me to have finished the Prologue.

Casually deleted the Prologue last night because.. Well, I had the full game now.

Full game saves gone and key mappings reset to default.

[🔥Shadowspawn🔥]

Originally posted by funkmonster7:

That's Early Access game for ya. I'm surprised how many people don't understand how Early Access works...

I actually lost a character for unknown reason. I'm wondering if I accidentally deleted it. It wasn't an update or anything, it just disappeared, that's after the game crashed upon starting. What'd I do? Just make a new character......................................... Big deal.

Yup. That's all ya can do. I've already lost more characters than I can keep track of. If I had let them all go to my head, I'd be a raving loon by now.

Only thing you can reasonably do is shrug and move on. 'Tis the nature of Beta.

[Del_Duio]

Originally posted by funkmonster7:

That's Early Access game for ya. I'm surprised how many people don't understand how Early Access works...

Not every game that uploads a new build erases player saves. If the devs included blank save files with their uploaded package (this is a bad practice) these will over-write anything the end users have installed on their computer.

How it really should work:

I as a dev upload a folder with my game's .exe to the Steam server. The player downloads the game and plays it. If he makes a save that save file is then written to the folder (or subfolder, or whatever). Then when I upload a new build of the game and the player goes to play it again the computer compares what's different (i.e. the .exe file and ONLY that). Steam will only overwrite that .exe file and your saves will be left alone.

I do this all the time and it never affects my playerbase's save files. I don't know why Stoneshard always erases our saves every update but I wish they'd tell us the exact reasoning because it may very well be avoidable. By you simply saying "You don't understand how EA works...…….." is not the right answer. I've played plenty of EA games and my saves were never deleted by them either (Chronochron, Vagante, Caveblazers, etc)

[Kazouie]

Originally posted by Del_Duio:

Originally posted by funkmonster7:

That's Early Access game for ya. I'm surprised how many people don't understand how Early Access works...

Not every game that uploads a new build erases player saves. If the devs included blank save files with their uploaded package (this is a bad practice) these will over-write anything the end users have installed on their computer.

How it really should work:

I as a dev upload a folder with my game's .exe to the Steam server. The player downloads the game and plays it. If he makes a save that save file is then written to the folder (or subfolder, or whatever). Then when I upload a new build of the game and the player goes to play it again the computer compares what's different (i.e. the .exe file and ONLY that). Steam will only overwrite that .exe file and your saves will be left alone.

I do this all the time and it never affects my playerbase's save files. I don't know why Stoneshard always erases our saves every update but I wish they'd tell us the exact reasoning because it may very well be avoidable. By you simply saying "You don't understand how EA works...…….." is not the right answer. I've played plenty of EA games and my saves were never deleted by them either (Chronochron, Vagante, Caveblazers, etc)

except if you bothered to read the stickies about this you would see that the game just doesn't show incompatible saves and you can rollback to an earlier version to keep playing