OVERWRITING SAVES! HERE'S HOW TO AVOID UNTIL PATCH!

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OVERWRITING SAVES! HERE'S HOW TO AVOID UNTIL PATCH!

Postby travisbaldree » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:49 pm

HA! Found the overwrite issue.
If you create a character, and accept the character creation by pressing Enter twice ( once for your name, once for the pet's name ), it will use the previous save file to write to! This will effectively overwrite whatever character was at the main menu.
You can AVOID this by clicking OK instead -
This will be fixed in the patch, but to avoid the overwrite, click OK!
Really sorry about this folks, but man, am I glad I found it! :P


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Postby Xander » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:50 pm

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Postby Magos » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:51 pm

Thanks Travis!
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Postby PePPaZ » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:52 pm

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Postby Lunalotic » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:05 pm

THX Travis
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Postby Chameleon » Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:19 am

Thanks Travis.

I lost a char too, I'm playing the demo so I'm not that worried about it. I need to test this out...just to be sure. ;)
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Postby Jiro » Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:22 am

It would be good if this was stickied untill the next patch, don't want it falling down off the front page. ;)

edit: seems it already is, my mistake. :)
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Postby Needlehawk » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:57 am

Wow Travis, that's great that you found it!
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Postby Illimitus » Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:19 am

and the Brink bug survive play testing?

Was it paradoxically the first parts of the game that were tested first, then forgotten as time went on?
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Postby Inverness » Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:37 am

Damn fine job!

How did you discover the bug? And most importantly why is it even occurring?
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Postby Oconnel » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:06 am

Oh, good to know you found it :)
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Postby Vanzetto » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:59 am

Hey guys,

Just lost my save... Nothing to do with the creation of a new character thus, i just switch between my 2 characters and lost the first one... I don't remember doing anything special and i had switch between characters several times without any issue.

Soooo I guess it was just FYI as there's no way to retrieve it, right ?
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Postby Inverness » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:56 am

Vanzetto wrote:Hey guys,

Just lost my save... Nothing to do with the creation of a new character thus, i just switch between my 2 characters and lost the first one... I don't remember doing anything special and i had switch between characters several times without any issue.

Soooo I guess it was just FYI as there's no way to retrieve it, right ?
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Postby BVehrs » Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:34 pm

Talk about weird bugs! This one will be one you and the Torchlight community remember for a long time. Hopefully we can look back in a years time and laugh fondly! :P
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Postby Erianthe » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:51 pm

Unfortunately simply playing with a character has triggered this (saves being overwritten) for me :/. Do you know if that will be fixed in the patch and when the patch will be released?
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Postby Inverness » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:54 pm

Perhaps the pressing enter doesn't only apply to creating a new character?
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Postby Sojyn » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:49 pm

BVehrs wrote:Talk about weird bugs! This one will be one you and the Torchlight community remember for a long time. Hopefully we can look back in a years time and laugh fondly! :P


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Postby jully » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:57 pm

Hi
This is Jully from Canada, I always lost a many character some time I lost my save then after I am finding and playing with
Travis demo so after that I am not worried about it.Thanks to good you found it Travis I think many person has a problem
like this and you have done solve it.
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Re: OVERWRITING SAVES! HERE'S HOW TO AVOID UNTIL PATCH!

Postby Odon » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:23 am

Just lost my gem mule with all the gems from 3 mid 20 toons. I'd rather have lost one of the toons because this affects all the characters. So now that I have experienced the problem I go searching for the issue and see that it's been known for some time and they have workarounds and suggestions. Nice to know now that it's too late.

I see they are working real hard to fix the issue and a patch is due soon but I think the Devs should have issued a warning on the pages you go to to download the game. Or maybe send an extra email after your order confirmation or something so it doesn't hurt sales. If I knew about the issue before I could have made backups before logging off like suggested. I back up the save folder almost every day anyway and tried to revert to past versions of all the saves in that folder and the working folder but it didn't help.

Maybe it's only a problem for 1% of buyers or something but I think the Devs need to go another step here.

Great game and I'll be happy to start playing again once this is worked out.

Side note:
This is a fantastic game actually. I really think they could release it as a retail boxed game for a higher price in the future, maybe with a small update or something. I know I'd buy it at Target for $40 if I saw it. Definitely worth as much as other games. Maybe they didn't have the marketing budget.
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Postby sos4tw » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:16 pm

Sorry to hear about your character being lost.

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The above link is a thread for a character save that Lexyrex generously put up filled with 4 of every kind of perfect gem. Some might think this is cheating but in your case it could just be recovering what was lost.
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