Characters removed for no aparent reason

(Rastasmurf) #1

So, I was just launching an online game and fixing the settings when the game suddenly popped up a window that said online status has changed and suddenly frooze every option that has anything to do with the internet. It might be worth mentioning that my internet did not shut down according to the computer itself, webbrowsers spotify, even steam didn’t notice any problems.

Anyhow, I restarted the game and it sent me straight to the first-time introduction movie and promted that I make a new character. So I did, not really much of a choice, and went straight for the switch character option. Only my Characters where no longer there.

I’ve tried rebooting the game several times, I also tried rebooting steam, none of which gave any results.

How do I get them back? I see no point in having to start over with no unlocked clothing or equipment…

Also this tapir is kinda nice… :stroggtapir:

(ran93r) #2

I’m not sure exactly what synch’s with steam, I would have assumed that the next time you connected you would have got some kind of warning about a mismatch and which file did you want to run from. Assuming Steam was up to date you should have been able to pull your saves from there?

I was under the impression that the client side saves were located in the game.save file which I have taken to backing up but I suspect that if you have started a new character and have nothing else there, that has probably already been overwritten.

Don’t take my word as gospel, I’m just guessing really.

(Protector) #3

Hes gone mate, this problem has happened to myself and a few others aswell, there is a thread hidden somewhere in tech issues about it…

I’m afraid at the moment you just have to create a new character and start again, I had put 34 hours in before losing my first character I was gutted.

(Rastasmurf) #4

Well that’s a bummer, I actually recommended this game to my friends but this is just plain stupid, why on earth would they release the game when it’s clearly not finished?

And the dumbass savefile is locked even though I have a backup of it, any way to unlock it so I can reset the data 1 day?

On a sidenote I spent 35 hours on 2 chars, unlocked every single thing in the game, including all the slippery audio logs… xD

(shibbyuk) #5

Yeah, it’s one of the more irritating bugs. Here’s the thread: http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25832

I would post your conditions on there to hopefully help them resolve the issue.