Lost savegames after update 0.24

[Drinkycrow]

I bought kenshi just recently and today i updated it for the first time. I guess im stupid because i didnt back-up my save files. I hade 10 pretty strong guys with good equipment. The save game folder is empty and i cant save in the new version, it says it saved succesfully but i am unable to load the game afterwards so now i cant play the game at all... I havent touched the save files before so i am not sure how they look but they are easily editable right? Any ideas why i cant save/load?

No crash report because the game didnt crash but it doesnt let me import squad or load, making it unplayable. Should i reinstall and hope for the best? Is it impossible to get my save files back?

[Jacked4fun]

In 0.24 you can't reload your game I don't think, try start a new game and import your squad it will keep all your men just in a new game.

[Drinkycrow]

I meant to do just that but my squad was gone... The folders empty. I reinstalled the game and can now play again but had to start from scratch. Rusty katanas and 0 dex. YAY! Checked the save game files but they did not seem as easily edited as i had hoped so dont know how to boost the stats.

Edit: Now the game crashed and all the platoon and zone folders were emptied. The only thing left is a Save-file named quick. When I finally had collected 10 guys...

[Captain Deathbeard]

You should be able to reload in 0.24. this is not good. can you send me a zip of your save folder, and a crash dump if there is one.

[Drinkycrow]

well it has continued. I actually did a clean reinstall but now the save game data wipes itselfs out after crashes. Ill upload the crash report later because im a bit busy now.

One thing that would really help me enjoy this game is if there was some good guide how to edit the platoon/savegame text files. They seem mostly like jibberish to me. I usually did a lot of simple tweaking(importing chars to different mods etc) in mount & blade but their text files were very easily understandable and easy to tweak. It would be great just to know how to tweak the stats of my chars. That way I could up the str agi def and atk of my chars a bit so i dont have to start over from 0 dex... Is there some easy guide how to tweak the chars? I searched for edit characters and character editor etc but found nothing.

Thanks for a promising game by the way!

Best regards

Drinkycrow

EDIT: Happened again, this time the save games are seemingly intact but if i pick start new with import it crashes and if i take load game a game starts with 0 chars. Uploading crash dump and buggy save game

[Brettflan]

I was able to use New Game Import Squad in 0.24 with my existing 0.23.7 savegame without any problems.
The existing save had already just been through a New Game Import Squad as a quick way back to the center town to sell off my trade goods, no idea if that made a difference.

I had a backup of the save from just before importing into 0.24 (still an 0.23.7 save), so I just now tried loading that save directly in 0.24, and it actually loaded fine as well. Hmm.

[Drinkycrow]

Well my save files seem unplayable now and I do not feel like restarting again. I Tried starting a new game and just copying the namless.platoon file into the save but that just made things bug out in trippy ways. I can no longer play the game. Very sad development. Thinking about doing a new install and not updating the game to 0.24 but unsure if my 0.24 save game will work.

[Captain Deathbeard]

Did this only happen once? How many times? How often? Did you save a lot?

Its wierd, your save file is just full of 0's, like its been formatted. Not sure how I can track down the cause, but in the next update it will salvage your squad if the savedata is corrupt, so hang on till then.

By the way you can probably edit save data with the construction set. Go to "Open any" and open up your .platoon file.

[Drinkycrow]

It happened a few times with 0.24 but i have only played 0,24 a couple of hours because of these problems. First time it happened was directly after update, the game crashed on first start up. The actual files were removed and the options to load game or start with imported chars were removed- This happened maybe 2 more times. I did save a lot because this computer tends to overheat and shut down quite easily and because of crashes and such I tend to spam quicksave. This last time the files were left but non-functional(save files I uploaded). I back-uped the saves for a while and tried again but its to tedious and to little time is spent with actual gameplay so im gonna let the game rest for a while.

[Captain Deathbeard]

Exactly what did you do before it deleted your saves? Did you get to the titlescreen? Did you press Load Game? Did it crash straight away or after the game loaded?

There is a new update now that will salvage your squad.

[Drinkycrow]

well my actual squad was deleted, like the whole file, so I dont think that it is salvageable. My memory is getting bad but the first time was upon start up directly after updating. The rest of the time it seemed to randomly crash, might have been when saving but I would be able to save like 10 times before the crash.

Thanks for the tip with the constructor, too bad I cant remember my old stats now i just gave 4 chars about 20 atk-def-dex and buffed my mains medic so I dont have to kill 100s of boring bandits.

EDIT: Arrgh happened again. All files properly deleted only a quick save text file. and two empty folders

[Captain Deathbeard]

This is worrying, but its strange that it only seems to happen to you. Have you had any other system troubles lately? If someone else has this problem, please report it.

Ok so theres 2 folders, "quicksave" and "current", and each has a platoon folder and a zone folder. So you are saying quicksave/platoon/ and quicksave/zone/ are completely empty right? Is there still a quick.save file? When you saved did you get the "Quicksave successful" message on screen?

The stuff in current/ just stores the data for the current game as you play, so if you play the game it will be emptied. Have you ran the game since that bad save? If not can you tell me if they are empty or full?

[Drinkycrow]

I dont think I got save succesful, only crash but I cant remember. If no-one else has this problem you should probably just focus on developing the game. Im not playing Kenshi anymore because my guys are quite strong and there really isnt anything to do yet so just killing group after group and getting stronger is kind of pointless.

OT: Chris, is there any incentive for killing "higher lvl" enemies except loot? I mean exp wise, feels like most skill increases are set for tasks performed and not from who you perform them on, it feels like trainingwise you might aswell just kill legions of bandits but maybe im wrong.

[Captain Deathbeard]

Yes, your skills improve significantly faster if you fight someone stronger than you, and slower if they are weaker. Its in the construction set under "skill diff xp 2x bonus"

[SilentHill]

Sometime my game crashes when i save, but i have never lost any data. It crashes before it says complete for me. Its quite rare as well, maybe 1 in 20 at minimum. No crash dumps are made.

[Atropo]

Seems I am suffering from the same problem. My game crashes when I F5 to quicksave sometimes and I just read this thread and looked through my save folder and my quicksave/platoon and quicksave/zone are both empty after the crash. I posted a separate thread with the crash dump.

This is a bummer, I was really enjoying the game .

[Captain Deathbeard]

Fixed it! I think. I will release an update ASAP.