SS1 EP2 choices not saving :-(
So the long story: I've had the game (SSN1) since release, but back during my first playthrough I lost the HDD with all my save games on it in the middle of Chapter 4. I never had the heart to start over, because already knowing the outcome of choices and ect...
Fast forward to today, and I finally broke down and started playing through it again; wanting to complete it and dive in to ssn2.
The problem: After having happily finished Chapters 1 & 2 without issue, I go to continue to chapter 3... and I get the message asking me if I want to generate story choices for the skipped episodes... I assume it's a fluke; close the game, and come back in.. same deal...
Start digging into the problem. I am a fairly intermediate to advanced PC user, and I've read at least two dozen forum topics on the issue by now, and am pretty certain I have followed the instructions correctly (RE: copying prefs.prop from the My Documents/TTG/TWD folder into the steam directory) and have had no luck. I've tried "Rewinding" Chapter 2 to the last checkpoint and playing through the last few minutes a half a dozen times over, trying to generate a "Working" save, no avail. The game does not seem to be generating a prefs.prop file by itself ANYWHERE in the STEAM directory, and I've tried a couple different variations of copying the on from My Documents TO there, to no avail.
I'm about to just give up on this game and say forget it, having had save games issues like this in as many playthrough attempts.... any more advice would be great :-/
(Windows 7 64bit, STEAM version of the game)
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Please use the Support Tool here: http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/44150/twd-support-tool-for-information-gathering
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Please do a search on your computer for prefs.prop. You should only have one of these files. You have one in Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead as well. Please back this file up to your desktop, and delete it from that folder, and then restart the game. Your game should now be able to read your saves. If your saves are incorrect, I would take that file and put it in the place of the other prefs.prop file in steamapps\common\The Walking Dead\Pack\default and then restart the game. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Nope; no go. It still shows my save game, "Game 1" but when I load it, it goes straight to Chapter 3 (Because I finished Chapter 2) and when I click Play, it asks if I want to generate decisions for skipped chapters, even though I completed Chapters 1 & 2 on that save file.
But hey...no big, right? You've already got my money, and it's not like there's any way to get a refund on computer software, so... sucks to be me, huh?
:-/
I apologize for the delayed response. Some players have reported that they are receiving this message, but when they start Episode 3, their choices are actually correct. You may be experiencing this. If you start Episode 3, and your choices are incorrect, rewind to the last checkpoint of the previous episode you were in, and complete the episode again.