[WD] Episode 2 not saving progress
PC: Steam related...
Hello,
I played through Episode 1 and quit the game. When I restarted it I chose my safe game and selected episode 2. I played until you get trapped into that kind of " storage room"
when I had to quit. When I restarted the game I was still in Episode 1 with the safe game...
Can I get around that somehow? I don't want to play the same parts over and over again nor do I want to play it through in one session just to see that all my decitions are gone in episode 3.
Best regards,
Isa
Hello,
I played through Episode 1 and quit the game. When I restarted it I chose my safe game and selected episode 2. I played until you get trapped into that kind of " storage room"
when I had to quit. When I restarted the game I was still in Episode 1 with the safe game...Can I get around that somehow? I don't want to play the same parts over and over again nor do I want to play it through in one session just to see that all my decitions are gone in episode 3.
Best regards,
Isa
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No, it's not working.
I reinstalled and played the whole first episode again but I just dont get an option to start Episode 2 after the first is finished and when I just start episode 2 from the games loading screen it is not saved.
This really annoyes me, if they release a game with auto save and no direct save option they have to make sure it's working on all systems. And it's not their first game.
So what to do now? Is their some official note that they know about that and working on it?
The saving in this game is messed up.
What I found out is...the game actually safe the progress. I can see it in the
C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead folder. It created now 18 save files and when the little save icon ingame appears the last one gets updated or at least the change date and time are updated.
If I close the game and rerun it it's only showing me the option to start save game number 12 which I can see because of the time and date print in the ingame save game.
So it seems that the game is storing an old save game somewhere else or better said a reference to it. But where? I tried to rename save game 18 to 12 but this does not change the ingame date and time footprint, it stays the same (and I only get a black screen - with my axe inventory to the left - when loading the game).
So how does the game know that there is a save game from 08/18 10am when I removed that file from the save folder? It must ave stored that info somewhere else....and that seems to be the problem...
I think that data is stored in the prefs.prop among other things. The game also seems to depend on the files Timestamps somehow, according to this fix for another issue.
If you are interested in some tinkering, you can try that fix with your savegames until you find the correct one.
This might work if old and new save game re in the same chapter, but my problem is, that the save game stays in chapter 1 and my "old" (or new) save game is chapter 2. If I try to continue the modified save game I just get a black screen. It looks like that the game does not only store the time and date of the save game in that prefs.prop but also the chapter/episode and thus this does not work.
Man this save system is messed up. Why not only load the last save game...but that question can only TTG answer.
Looks like we have to wait for a patch. Thanks anyway, you did your best to help.
I haven't tried that, but it might work. It might still need the episode 1 save belonging to it in the same folder too...
The complicated save system is probably because it tracks a lot of stuff you do and you can even rewind.
So the problem is that prefs.prop file. I played the first episode two times with the same result so at least at my steam copy this problem is reproduceable.
So now I have to play with these random choices...not what I was hopping for but at least I can play it. I hope it's saving now.
If you want to keep playing to see if the save issue doesn't happen again, more power to you, but it was definitely a waste of time when I tried. Frustrating!