lost file save game when coop with friend in dead island. Need help

[Mr.T]

My friend and I played dead island together so I joined his lobby, after playing I quit the game and when I re-entered the game I lost all my gear and had to start over again (I'm sure that I was played at chapter 4 and level 9 with my friends) while my friends kept their level and gear. please help me

[ReBoot]

Maybe you have to join your friend's game again to get the gear. This really depends on the game.

[Iceira]

Also think you should clear up why it happend at game own forum. so it dont happend again.

[Mr.T]

I rejoined my friend's lobby but still had to play again with level 1 and no gear and had to re-select characters.

[ReBoot]

You'd better ask on the game forum. This is rather game-specific.

[Mr.T]

ok

[crunchyfrog]

Yeah, you should really ask in the Dead Island discussions here (go to the game in your library and where the "play" button is, look immedfiately below that for the list of words, and click on "discussions").

This game has had a few changes over the years, as it originally used to be that joining a co-op game was messy as it balanced the levels of the zombies to the host's level (iirc), meaning if you were under levelled, you were useless. Likewise, if you were overlevelled, it was dull.

I haven't played it co-op in a very long time, so I can't recall how you go about making sure your save doesn't get overwritten.

[Muppet among Puppets]

The old game was fine.
I made savegame backups though.

Which one gives this problem?

[Muppet among Puppets]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:

This game has had a few changes over the years, as it originally used to be that joining a co-op game was messy as it balanced the levels of the zombies to the host's level (iirc), meaning if you were under levelled, you were useless. Likewise, if you were overlevelled, it was dull.

I am sure it had a setting. I forgot which. Maybe it was related to the topic or to this remark or both

[Mr.T]

so what should I do

[Muppet among Puppets]

Look in the settings.
And make sure you do not click new game or so.

After playing, copy your savegame and keep a copy all the time.

[ReBoot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Mr.T:

so what should I do

You should really ask on the game forum how saves for this game work.

[Mr.T]

where can I find savegame file

[Muppet among Puppets]

Steam\userdata\account number\number of game on shop page\remote\out\save

[ReBoot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Mr.T:

where can I find savegame file

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dead_Island

[crunchyfrog]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Muppet among Puppets:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:

This game has had a few changes over the years, as it originally used to be that joining a co-op game was messy as it balanced the levels of the zombies to the host's level (iirc), meaning if you were under levelled, you were useless. Likewise, if you were overlevelled, it was dull.

I am sure it had a setting. I forgot which. Maybe it was related to the topic or to this remark or both

It had a setting, but it either didn't work at first or it caused the problem that I professed - where it was titled to ONE player.

There is such a setting still in the game, but as I understand it it now works more on an average or something. I can't be specific as I can't remember.




OP, for the future, one thing you MUST use as a Steam user with more than a handful of games - gamesavemanager (www.gamesave-manager.com).

It makes backing up all your game saves a brezze. I do it every few days or once a week at the very worst. Simply back up everything I've played that week and dump the saves elsewhere.

Then when stuff like this happens, you have something to return to if things go pear-shaped.