In the latest patch a new ‘Autosave’ feature was added as a safeguard for loss of save data that some users were experiencing, which has possibly been fixed in a recent update.
The feature is unsupported, and the following information is for advanced users only: modifying the default save functionality of the game is done at the user’s risk.
Disabling auto-save backups:
By default the game will create 9 backups in a queue-like approach, meaning that when the game is booting all backups move one position down and the oldest is deleted. If a user wants to disable this, for instance to reduce the amount of data that needs to be uploaded to the Steam Cloud, he should follow the steps below:
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[li]Go into your Steam Library, and right-click on Brink
[/li][li]Click ‘Properties’
[/li][li]Click ‘Set launch options…’
[/li][li]Paste the following: +set save_enableBackups “0”
[/li][li]Run Brink from Steam
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Recovering an auto-save backup:
A user can load one of the automatically created backups, or load one he has manually copied. Doing so will temporarily disable the auto-save backups and will overwrite the current auto-save. To do this follow the steps below:
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[LIST=1]
[li]Go into your Steam Library, and right-click on Brink
[/li][li]Click ‘Properties’
[/li][li]Click ‘Set launch options…’
[/li][li]Paste the following: +set save_readFile “savefile” (e.g. +set save_readFile “game.save.backup5”
[/li][li]Run Brink from Steam
[/li][li]Make any customization change to your character (this prompts the game to save)
[/li][li]Exit Brink via the main menu
[/li][li]Return to Brink’s launch options in Steam and remove all the text you added previously
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Manual auto-save backups:
While the backup system will keep track of the last saves a user might desire to manually make a save, for instance to use at tournaments. This is now also supported and can be loaded as described above. To make a copy of the save game follow the steps below:
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[li]Open a new explorer and navigate to [B]…\Steam\userdata\user id\22350\remote[/B]
[/li][li]Copy the save game or one of the backups
[/li][li]Navigate to [B]…\Steam\userdata\user id\22350\local\base[/B] (this folder should contain the brinkconfig.cfg file if the game has been run at least once previously)
[/li][li]Paste the copied file here
[/li][li]Rename the file you just pasted to a name that’s not game.save or one of the existing backup filenames
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