Well, sad to say that after 50 hours and paying for the dlc only recently the game crashed and now there’s no option to reload from my previous save.
It gives me only the new game option which I haven’t started as A) I don’t want to find everything all over again and B) I’m afraid it will override my existing saves that are corrupted possibly.
I’ve tried using the backup as a main save, that didn’t work. I’ve tried reinstalling the game and seeing if steam stores anything, nope.
At a loss here guys, has anyone solved this? Never had this occur in 20 years of gaming.
@OwlCapone
Sir, make regular copies of your saves.
Can be located here: C:\Users*YOUR USERNAME-PC NAME*\Documents\Avalanche Studios\GenerationZero\Saves**#NUMBER**
Also, you can restore from Cloud, if you have this enabled.
You mean Steam cloud? From my experience, that backup gets replaced with the corrupted one.
There are numerous posts about how to create backups easily. As to any possible solution to fix a corrupted save once it has occured and you don’t have any backup, the only “semi-solution” I’ve read about that on this forum was from someone that had this happen, and that person created a new character, and then could get back to his/hers previous game.
I’ve only read about this once, and I’m not sure if this fully applies to this actual problem.
As always, keeping backups (or rather not doing so) can be a hard lesson to learn when the shit hits the fan.
sadly I’d Figured as much, with that many hours in the game it’s too late to go back and back up saved games, sinking in another 50 hours into a game that can corrupt saves at any given moment also isn’t giving me any confidence to play again really also. Not sure why the developers haven’t fixed this issue in over 12 months of reports.
I know, it’s truly a very bad system currently. Should you decide to start over, consider some form of backup solution. You can take a look at this thread for some ideas.
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Its been a while that i made a review for a issue of my friend about, when loging off the game all save file vanish. The progression turn back to zero, we find a small a solution for his loot, he give it to me so I put it in the safe and give him back for the next day.
But after the crash of the game (forcing him to start every thing to Zero) enough is enough.
It has been said fix, clearly no, it hasn't. While the game can be a lot of fun, it became a pain in the ass.
The cloud is not the issue, steam also, the file is ok it has been reinstalled 2 time. So what next?
Power cut out and lost my entire save file. Because of this I have lost all interest in playing the game more and buying the DLC, I mean how hard is it to make backup save files that auto delete themselves after 5 and 10 minutes?? I have seen this has been a problem for over a year but this seems like such an easy fix I don’t understand why it hasn’t been fixed yet.
Please Please Please fix this cuz I loved this game and want to play it more but not if I am gonna lose everything
The Swedish national day event promised a KVM59 we lost when our savegames got franked up (thank you devs). And the conclusion is - an overall frustration.
This game is seriously broken - AI is broken, difficulty is broken, drop rate is bro… not it’s not broken, it’s a bad joke.
So it feels now it’s time to put this game aside and hope a future update will fix it.
If there will be a future update because it feels more and more that devs are focusing on next title. I hope we are wrong.
Even better moral of the story: use UPS with your PC
Oh yeah, and when W10 just hangs, so what? This is just an excuse for devs’ inability to develop a proper game saving system. I don’t know any other game with similar problems.
No promises were made. Instead, a chance to get one was given.
Ok ok ok, we read and understood. I meant promised in this context, BUT - they surely promise a fun, right? Not a frustration.
Le me explain one thing - I am seasonal player, I played everything from AAA’s to utter crap and I can accept some bugs or inconsistencies. BUT, GZ is a game which locked many occasional player because of the scenery and what it promised. And it worked like that.
But know, what I can hear, are occasional players who believe that devs gave up this game because their manager transferred them to next title.
That there will be no update.
That these PRIO 1 bugs which should be fixed within one week are not fixed after 7 weeks.
And instead we got a fluffy event where every single enemy was OP no matter which difficulty was chosen and killed us from 1km with ONE-SHOT… on level 27… It DID NOT happen before
Oh yeah, and when W10 just hangs, so what? This is just an excuse for devs’ inability to develop a proper game saving system. I don’t know any other game with similar problems.
And BTW - we lost our savegames when GZ hang, not even W10. PC is memtested and i never hangs no matter what we play or do. So devs should really fix this since they don’t have any tool which would allow us to repair the files. And when we created a bug report, there was no response.
The one single problem with backups (the ones created by the game) is that they are created in the exact same instance as the main save file, so if our game closes abruptly then we are stuck with corrupted main file and backup.
A solution would be to create backup few seconds after the main save was made.
Exactly this. They could even have several backup files going, like the script I made, to make it safer. I’m rather sad to see this issue is still around
I just had the game restart my PC again, this time I didn’t lose any progress.
I’ve had a bunch of applications such as Discord, Spotify and Steam running in the background as well as Firefox with quite a few tabs and a few youtube videos I was going to watch later (one was open, but paused on my second monitor). I’ve played the game like that for about an hour and I guess the system ran out of memory. The last time I had this happen, it also occurred under similar circumstances.
Before anyone complains about too many things open - I always have it like that and GZ is the only game that seems to be having issues, assuming that’s the cause.
Does it make multiple save files or just keep overwriting the same file location I designate every 10min if that’s the time I set if to check and backup my game file.
This is still an issue. First time after an hour of play. Second after 15 minutes. Can the developers please make the game playable and not just creat more paid DLC?
The game has now crashed twice on me. I bought it on Steam yesterday. Each time it crashes, it corrupts the save and I have to start the whole game over. This game is currently unplayable because of this problem.
