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Retail Disc - Can't prgress to Episode 2

musicallbear12musicallbear12
edited March 2013 in The Walking Dead - Xbox 360 Support
Bought TWD for my little brother (and secretly myself) for Christmas. Brother has been playing for a day now and he completed Ep. 1 and the game will not allow him to advance to 2. I've noticed this is a common problem and I have yet to see anyone from TellTale address the issue. Is there a known workaround for this yet? Or can any of the mods/Devs tell me if a patch/solution is being worked on? This game has gotten so much praise and it is beyond disappointing that a game with such a glaring issue can be released and go unaddressed.

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  • davieb1991davieb1991
    edited December 2012
    Is it a problem with the saving system thats preventing you from advancing to the next episode?
  • musicallbear12musicallbear12
    edited December 2012
    I'm not quite sure. We've tried saving the game at the end of the episode, and saving another file in the second slot and just cycling through those saves to get it to work but it won't do anything. Just whenever we try and start Episode 2 it just starts back on episode 1.
  • davieb1991davieb1991
    edited December 2012
    Ok that sounds like the save problem everyone has been having. The work around that I do is this:

    copy your saved file from slot one, onto slot two. So you will end up with (for example) slot 1: episode 2
    slot 2: episode 2

    Pick either one of these save file and load it up. This will most likely send your file back to
    episode 1. You will end up with this: slot 1: episode 1
    slot 2: episode 2

    Exit the game and go back to the save slots. Just re copy the episode 2 file back onto the slot 1 and repeat this until your file loads up in episode 2. This may take between 4-5 tries, but it works.

    You will have to do this every time you want to load up your saved file
  • musicallbear12musicallbear12
    edited December 2012
    I was trying that, and it didn't seem to work. Although the issue may be it never got to episode 2. The file we had saved still said episode 1. I'll have to tinker with it and try again.
  • davieb1991davieb1991
    edited December 2012
    It should work no matter what episode you are on. Maybe you need to try this way a few more times. Hope you find the solution for it.
  • musicallbear12musicallbear12
    edited December 2012
    Started a new game on my own profile, and it worked perfectly like it is supposed to! Going to have to tinker with my brothers saves and see if I can get them fixed as well. Hopefully this gets patched though soon, as it is a great frustration.
  • CrashBandicootCrashBandicoot
    edited December 2012
    musicallbear12 wrote: »
    Bought TWD for my little brother (and secretly myself) for Christmas. Brother has been playing for a day now and he completed Ep. 1 and the game will not allow him to advance to 2. I've noticed this is a common problem and I have yet to see anyone from TellTale address the issue. Is there a known workaround for this yet? Or can any of the mods/Devs tell me if a patch/solution is being worked on? This game has gotten so much praise and it is beyond disappointing that a game with such a glaring issue can be released and go unaddressed.

    We have the same problem, the menu of all the episodes state as being "installed" but when you try to access play on any of them it immediately reverts back to episode 1
  • NeoishaNeoisha
    edited December 2012
    I had the same issue however upon turning on my xbox live I was able to instal a system update and since then everything has worked perfectly and progressed to other episodes and chapters.
  • CrashBandicootCrashBandicoot
    edited December 2012
    I exchanged the disc yesterday and the same problem exists, cannot go past episode 2. This has got to be the most frustrating xmas gift yet. There has got to be an answer out there. what is it?
  • MiamiViceCityMiamiViceCity
    edited December 2012
    CrashBandicoot wrote: »
    I exchanged the disc yesterday and the same problem exists, cannot go past episode 2. This has got to be the most frustrating xmas gift yet. There has got to be an answer out there. what is it?

    It seems like the only answer is to return it for a refund or store credit, if at all possible.

    I think that quickly turning around after the release date and returning the game for store credit was one of the smartest moves I made when it comes to videogames.
  • musicallbear12musicallbear12
    edited December 2012
    I still can't get the game to work properly on my brother's profile, meanwhile mine is working perfectly fine. The inconsistency is kind of baffling. I don't know if playing on a different profile fixes things or if I just got lucky though.
  • Jared776Jared776
    edited December 2012
    I think you got lucky. I have a friend who is the same way. He played start to finish, installing the episodes as they came out, with no problems. I, however, can't make it past episode 1 no matter what I do.
    It is both extremely frustrating and extremely hard to understand!
  • WisejordWisejord
    edited December 2012
    I'm using the xbla version and this happens...?? Im confused as to why it has not been fixed.
  • MattPMattP ModeratorFormer Telltale Staff
    edited January 2013
    If you have the retail disc version of the game and cannot load an episode other than episode 1, and are playing offline with an xbox live enabled profile, connecting to xbox live should resolve the issue. Unfortunately this is not the case when attempting to load a save from a later episode that reverts back to Episode 1. We are investigating both of these issues and hope to have a solution soon.
  • musicallbear12musicallbear12
    edited January 2013
    We were finally able to get to a place where LIVE was available and the issue does appear to be fixed. Sincerely hope it stays this way for good now.
  • Nightmare_vincentNightmare_vincent
    edited January 2013
    Yeah it did let me play but as soon as I went home, (where there isnt xbox live service) it wont let you.
    Any help?
  • patchesm27patchesm27
    edited March 2013
    I WAS going to play and download this game an episode at a time. I finished episode 1 and downloaded episode 2 but can not get episode 2 to play. I replayed, redownloaded, signed in and out of xbox live. If before the end of today I get help and am able to play episode 2 I will continue to download and play episodes. If I don't get help I'll just forget the whole damn thing and I will be ULTRA SURE TO NEVER BUY AN TELLTALE GAME AGAIN!
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