TWD: Problem with saved files?
Is anyone else having this problem, I had three saved files when I began chapter two, I first started on my No.1 chapter where I had saved Carly, but when i actually ran the game it had Doug as my person I had saved, confused but too eager to play the game i went along with it, and completed chapter two with what the game programmed me with, But now going back and trying to play my other saved files it simply refuses to work, if I click play on chapter two it brings me right to the end, but if I try to play my other save files It does not load and just gives me a black screen?, anyone else had this problem?
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It got worse. I went into save-slot #2, and tried to rewind back to a point in Episode 1. The game wouldn't load, I got the same screen that Banditbenn posted, the program stopped doing anything (CPU and memory usage went to near-idle levels and just hanged there). I had to shut down the program, and when I went back in, ALL my saves are in Episode 1! So my main save has been reverted as well.
I wonder if this has anything to do with me trying to copy save-slot #1 to save-slot #3 yesterday, while it was still on episode 1. But, I think everything was still fine at that point, since I was able to play through the end-scene of episode 1 and the entirety of episode 2 with no problems on save-slot #1.
In save slot 1 I saved Doug and completed Episode 2.
So I decided to load up Save Slot 3 where I saved Carley and see how the episode would play out...
It just loaded the end scene of episode 2 with Doug in the background...
So I deleted Save Slot 1 and tried again with Save Slot 3... Same thing happened with Doug.
I went back to the main menu and Save Slot 3 was missing with Save Slot 1 still there...
This is unacceptable.
You make us wait an extra month for this episode and now we can't play other Save games to make other choices?
Awful developer.
Poor communication and poor quality release.
if its important I purchased and play the game via Steam
Fix it.
Fit it.
Fix it.
I sided with Kenny in episode 1, but got tons of hostility from him from the very beginning of ep 2. I probably would have had a split with his crazy butt anyway but I think it is exasperated by him saying I tried to kill his daffy Duck son.
Have you gotten any response.
Now I'm back, after having experienced the same problem, except this time there's no caveats about having tried to copy (within the game, mind you) the save. I didn't do anything to it, all I tried to do was finish episode 2, try to start episode 3, had it fail, and then when I came back into the game, my first save is reverted to episode 1 and the others are empty.
Well, they just took my afternoon from me with nothing to show for it, except having to sit through the same unskippable dialogue and drawn-out sequences yet again.
But I still have all evening to let all my friends, acquaintences, and strangers know that this game will frustrate the hell out of them if they buy it.
Have I now broken the game? Are there any patches or fixes for recovering old save games? I'm surprised to read here on this forum that this appears to be a known issue that may or may not ever be resolved. It seems like a basic "must-fix" type issue.
Sorry to see that you have fallen into this trap as many of us have. After repeated cries to the Telltalers, it seems that no fix is coming soon. There was a post over a month ago from a Telltale Rep stating "It IS a very small number of people that it's happening to, which made reproducing the issue internally difficult and time-consuming." I'm guessing that the Walking Dead Game was never finished and tested before they released it and now, instead of fixing technical problems with the game, they are rushing to code the next episode. ANYWAY...
I found a way to play the game without the crashing and loss of saved games, but you will have to ditch any games you have saved until this point (I did and I had 3 saves: Good Lee, Bad Lee and Indifferent Lee). This has only been tried for the PC (not through Steam either):
1. Erase any content related to the Walking Dead Game... Start from Scratch.
2. Download the game from your account... You must be signed in and then in the upper right you will see the joystick with "Your Games" tab. Download the first episode ONLY.
3. Play the episode, but under NO circumstances Alt Tab out of the game. When you want to Exit, hit escape and then go to Main Menu (click ok that unsaved progress will be lost) and then Exit Game from Main Menu (I'm not 100% sure you have to go to the Main Menu instead of just Exiting the game, but I haven't even attempted that).
4. When you reach the end of Episode 1, let the credits play out and then, from the main menu click play game (this is your first save) and (this seems important): Download the next episode from within the game itself. I think this puts all the game data together, whereas if you download it separately and then install it from the download (even if you choose the Walking Dead folder to install it to) the saves become corrupted.
Remember to follow step 3 whenever you want to exit the game and when you hit the end of Episode 2 follow step 4 and let it download through the game itself.
I have replayed all of my saves through the end of episode 3 and don't have one corrupted (yet).
I know this is a biotch, but it is the only way I have been able to get all my saves to work. Hope it works for others who are willing to start from scratch,
I'm thinking maybe there's a correlation between The saves in My Documents on the C: drive with the game on another HDD, and there's a link somewhere between the two.
I'm assuming that you have the PC version.
Hopefully this will help someone, I have the PC version non steam, I dont know if steam puts the saves somewhere else.
Zethos,
Thanks so much. I had the same exact problem. I purchased it on Telltale but had to initially install on Steam. When I downloaded episode three, I noticed about a day later, Steam was installing updates to the Walking Dead even though it was no longer installed. That's when all my saves went missing. I checked the Telltale folder under "My Documents" and did what you said and it seems to have worked. Thanks a bunch!
I hope Telltale decides to take a look into this issue. If not, I'll be waiting for the retail release if they decide to do a season 2. I love this game, but this sort of stuff is unacceptable.
Just enjoy this pleasant little point and click adventure with it's occasional dose of twitch gaming and its engaging narrative, and forget all the silly hype.