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computeraddict

[Discussion] PSA: if you play on multiple computers

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If you play on multiple computers and sync via Steam Cloud, everything will work normally if you have a game in progress when you change between them. Things get weird in the case that you have a game running on one, pick it up and complete it on the second, then switch back to the first without starting a new game. It will just revive the game you had been playing before switching computers.

If you care about your stats and it revives one of these saves, it will count as a lost timeline even if you delete the save. Expunging it from the stats involves editing the appropriate profile.lua in a few places, so it's best to avoid it if at all possible.

Posted Apr 12, 2018, 9:00 AM UTC

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parkotron•

I've noticed this as well. Fortunately, my stats aren't good enough to be worth caring about!

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ashfieldnomore•

Good to know

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BoydCooper•

I've had issues with this as well, I just didn't know the specific parameters of it. Thanks for doing the replication work. :) Have you told u/zasdarq?

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XenesisXenon•

GOG Galaxy's sync does the same thing.

I'm pretty sure it's because when you clear a game your 'in progress save' gets removed from the directory, but on the cloud those files are still there and such when it syncs it syncs your save data plus the "missing" in progress data.

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computeraddictOP•

That's about my best theory on what's happening, yep. Seems the answer is manually delete your local save before launching if you finished it elsewhere.

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kukiric•

Or you just start a new game. No harm done since the overall progression (i.e. achievements, squads, and pilots) are stored in a single file, and whenever there's a conflict, it'll ask you which version to keep.

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computeraddictOP•

It will revert your time traveller, and the point of the post is that it does NOT ask you which version to keep because it fails to distinguish that the local save is old if the cloud profile has no save.

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