426 Days in.....save file GONE. WTF?!!!!!!!!!!!

[xWCOGx]

Im about to kick a hole through something. I didnt see anything about a reset. I hadnt even died yet so Im not on the leaderboard. What gives?!

[ChillPlayer]

I hadnt even died yet so Im not on the leaderboard. What gives?!

this - you have to die first before you enter the leaderboard. Once you completed your run you will find yourself in the LB.

[Orwell 1984]

Look for the logs to figure out what happened with your survivor here:

c:\Users\urnamehere\AppData\LocalLow\Hinterland\The Long Dark\log_NUMBERHERE.txt

[xWCOGx]

Im aware you have to die first. Which is why im so annoyed. There is NO game to continue. Only the option to start over- which after 300+ hours, im pretty reluctant to do from scratch.

And sketchy...? What?

[xWCOGx]

I found the log. Last entry says I woke up after sleeping one hour......

WHAT?!!!

[Orwell 1984]

First of all DO NOT PANIC

be happy, reasons:

- you did not die

- you found the log

- somebody from the devs gonna help you:D

- if everything went wrong and the world is burning, you can get a special treatment as a customer.

That simple.

Keep positive:D

[Orwell 1984]

Oh, and get a towel here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchh ... the_Galaxy

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Does anyone else play this game on your computer? or did you start a new game on accident?

Jeremy

[xWCOGx]

Nope. Most certainly did not start a new game on accident. And no. My friend really wanted to try it but i told him i would never talk to him again if he did. If someone had started a new game, there wouldve been a game there. It wont even let me click LOAD.

[xWCOGx]

It was actually 355 and Im trying to find a way to share the log, but obviously I dont want to just paste it here.

When I search, its saying its on F drive and I can search for the files. When I try to find them manually to upload them somewhere though, its like theyre hidden.

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Are you on Mac or PC? And you can just attach the txt document here and I'll be able to dl it, or just PM it to me. Also, if you haven't started a new game yet, then the save file should be in the Long Dark folder. Could try copying it then deleting it out and put the copy back in, maybe the game will pick it up again. But it shouldn't have disappeared in the first place.

Here are some instructions on where to find Debug Logs, which are in the same folder as your saves and everything else related to the game.

viewtopic.php?f=56&t=504

Jeremy

[RJIII]

Just a note about copying and pasting a save file, I'm pretty sure that any copy/paste move will not allow the game to post your result in the leader boards. This may have changed but I'm pretty sure that is considered tampering. might be able to keep the run going which sounds awesome :]

[ChillPlayer]

No you still enter the LB with copy/pasting, at least in v183 it was possible. I hope they fix this soon but there's nothing mentioned in the patch notes. Haven't tried it since 183 though.

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

The only reason we haven't patched it yet, or at least to my knowledge, is that some streamers will have their personal save and one they stream with. so they have to jumble their save file around in order to do so. That being said doing that may be the cause of any corruption or loss of saves that is happening.

Jeremy

[TheBugfixer]

And ... keep in Mind ... the Leaderboard MUST be reseted when The Long Dark goes Gold.

So ... it doesnt matter how far you have become in "Alpha" ...

[KTDBS]

Nope. Most certainly did not start a new game on accident. And no. My friend really wanted to try it but i told him i would never talk to him again if he did. If someone had started a new game, there wouldve been a game there. It wont even let me click LOAD.

Not if the person who started a new game, died. Then there would be no game to load.... or if someone in your home tried playing your saved game and died.