[TWD] - Reset on Episode 1? Do this to recover your progess!
Hello all,
As you are probably aware, there has been as issue where people have lost their progress and been reset on episode 1 when trying to load a save. This has also happened to me (several times), but I have discovered a way to recover (most) of one's lost progress.
I'll use my situation as an example. I was using slot 1 and was in the middle of episode 3; I quit to the main menu, then exited the game from there, just as Telltale suggests. The next time I started the game and tried to continue my progress, the game restarted me on episode 1.
After a bit of research, I made an educated guess that perhaps my blank third slot was the issue (I had saves in slots 1 and 2). So, I copied my slot 1 save (which was now reset and read "Episode 1") into slot 3. Then, I tried playing my save (using slot 1), loaded episode 3, and BAM -- it worked. The game loaded episode 3 with all my choices from episodes 1 and 2 intact. Now, keep in mind, doing this will not recover progress for whatever episode you were on -- in my case, episode 3 -- but will keep you from having to replay previous episodes.
Hope this helps; if you try this, please post here to let me (and Telltale) know if this does/does not work.
As you are probably aware, there has been as issue where people have lost their progress and been reset on episode 1 when trying to load a save. This has also happened to me (several times), but I have discovered a way to recover (most) of one's lost progress.
I'll use my situation as an example. I was using slot 1 and was in the middle of episode 3; I quit to the main menu, then exited the game from there, just as Telltale suggests. The next time I started the game and tried to continue my progress, the game restarted me on episode 1.
After a bit of research, I made an educated guess that perhaps my blank third slot was the issue (I had saves in slots 1 and 2). So, I copied my slot 1 save (which was now reset and read "Episode 1") into slot 3. Then, I tried playing my save (using slot 1), loaded episode 3, and BAM -- it worked. The game loaded episode 3 with all my choices from episodes 1 and 2 intact. Now, keep in mind, doing this will not recover progress for whatever episode you were on -- in my case, episode 3 -- but will keep you from having to replay previous episodes.
Hope this helps; if you try this, please post here to let me (and Telltale) know if this does/does not work.
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FYI It won't look like it worked until you actually access the save slot and choose episode 4. Until you do that it will still look like Episode 1 revert.
Hold on Clementine, I'm coming for you.
Fix: I referred to this thread for a fix involving moving the save file from slot 1 to slot 3. Loading the copied file allowed me to choose from the episodes list. Awesome, shows that I had completed up through episode 3 just like it should. The recap plays through entirely this time, with all choices apparently intact, but one inaccuracy involving Duck. Hopefully, this didn't matter too much. After reading some other comments about total randomness with the reload, I feel pretty lucky. Hopefully, for the sake of other gamers experiencing this bug, the patch that downloaded (prior to the bug strangely enough) was a fix for a lot of the complaints.