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

[travisbaldree]

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!


Travis

[Xander]

Wonder's Hairbrushes for all!

Thank you!

[Magos]

Thanks Travis!

[PePPaZ]

BING BONG

+100 internets for Travis
:::QA:::

[Lunalotic]

THX Travis

[Chameleon]

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.

[Jiro]

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.

[Needlehawk]

Wow Travis, that's great that you found it!

[Illimitus]

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?

[Inverness]

Damn fine job!

How did you discover the bug? And most importantly why is it even occurring?

[Oconnel]

Oh, good to know you found it

[Vanzetto]

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 ?

[Inverness]

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 ?

If your OS supports previous versions you can open the properties for %appdata%\runic games\torchlight\save\0.svt and go to the previous versions tab and see if there are any available.

[BVehrs]

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!

[Erianthe]

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?
Thank you

[Inverness]

Perhaps the pressing enter doesn't only apply to creating a new character?

[Sojyn]

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!

"You have a new task. The quest for the [MISSING CHARACTER].

[jully]

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.
again Thanks

[Odon]

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.

[sos4tw]

Sorry to hear about your character being lost.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3708

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.