This is a new one for me. My RE4 game crashed and I loaded the game to find out my saves were gone
I was telling myself there's no way my saves are gone, so I check the save folder and fair enough they're still there
so i relaunch the game and find this:
RE4 literally orders you to delete your saves if you want to keep playing the game. If you do not delete your saves, you can literally start a new game, save that new game, and the game will refuse to load that save unless you delete everything that you have ever accomplished, period.
If this isn't bad enough, you cannot even easily delete your save because Steam has cloud saves, meaning that the saves will be downloaded from the cloud if you delete them. This means that the average user will be stuck in a perpetual loop of not being able to delete their saves like Capcom orders them to. Keep in mind at this point that these saves exist and are perfectly usable, the game just flat-out refuses to recognize them.
So Capcom's answer for the average user is to disable steam cloud, delete your saves, close steam, restart steam, , launch the game, play the game until you can save, then close the game, re-activate steam cloud, choose local cloud to overwrite, and then you are allowed to play the game. And also your old saves are gone, and all your challenges are gone too. You are back to 0.
This steam thread features an involved to-do to trick RE4R into recognizing your saves again: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2050650/discussions/0/3827536762637806204/
but you will still lose all your challenge points and have to replay the game again to get those challenge points back
this also means that if you ever have a save issue, you will always be fucked out of your challenge points and they will go back to zero
who is this helping? this is a singleplayer game going scorched earth about saves that still exist and work. Actual always-online multiplayer games don't eveb do this shit because they have an actual cloud backup plan so you don't lose everything you have because of a crash. But RE4 Remake does. This is ridiculous
I was telling myself there's no way my saves are gone, so I check the save folder and fair enough they're still there
so i relaunch the game and find this:
RE4 literally orders you to delete your saves if you want to keep playing the game. If you do not delete your saves, you can literally start a new game, save that new game, and the game will refuse to load that save unless you delete everything that you have ever accomplished, period.
If this isn't bad enough, you cannot even easily delete your save because Steam has cloud saves, meaning that the saves will be downloaded from the cloud if you delete them. This means that the average user will be stuck in a perpetual loop of not being able to delete their saves like Capcom orders them to. Keep in mind at this point that these saves exist and are perfectly usable, the game just flat-out refuses to recognize them.
So Capcom's answer for the average user is to disable steam cloud, delete your saves, close steam, restart steam, , launch the game, play the game until you can save, then close the game, re-activate steam cloud, choose local cloud to overwrite, and then you are allowed to play the game. And also your old saves are gone, and all your challenges are gone too. You are back to 0.
This steam thread features an involved to-do to trick RE4R into recognizing your saves again: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2050650/discussions/0/3827536762637806204/
but you will still lose all your challenge points and have to replay the game again to get those challenge points back
this also means that if you ever have a save issue, you will always be fucked out of your challenge points and they will go back to zero
who is this helping? this is a singleplayer game going scorched earth about saves that still exist and work. Actual always-online multiplayer games don't eveb do this shit because they have an actual cloud backup plan so you don't lose everything you have because of a crash. But RE4 Remake does. This is ridiculous
